The Grapevine Summer 2017 serving the community Thu & Fri For more details - please Juniors Youth Club contact Stve McC at Ely & Caerau Festival 2017 - please contact Stve McC [email protected]. at smccambridge@cardiff. uk. gov.uk. Cambrensis Choir Fri 30th June Bethel Church, Flower Festival Preview Michaelston Rd Church of the Resurrection 8pm. 7pm. Thu & Fri Summer Carnival Juniors Youth Club Ely & Caerau Childrens - please contact Stve McC at Centre, smccambridge@cardiff .gov. Michaelston Rd uk. 10am to 3pm. Fri 7th July Sat 1st July Pencaerau Schools Flower Festival Open 5-A-Side Football Resurrection Church Fete 11am to 1pm. Sat 8th July Festival Big Day It’s that time of the year. Mon 3rd July 12pm to 5pm, Western Eys Down novelty Bingo Leisure Centre. Make sure you are at our local festival. Recreation Play Centre 6:30pm to 9pm. Sun 9th July Thu 22nd June Mon 26th June Strawberry Tea in the Elympics, Wilson Road Eyes Down Novelty Bingo Juniors Youth Club grounds of the Church of the Recreation Grounds Recreation Play Centre - please contact Stve McC Resurrection. 1pm to 3pm. 6:30pm to 9pm. at smccambridge@cardiff. Welcome to stay for gov.uk. Churches Together Songs Sat 24th June Juniors Youth Club of Praise at 5:30pm. Nant Caerau Summer Fair - please contact Stve McC Tue 4th July 11am to 2pm. at smccambridge@cardiff. Re-opening of North Ely gov.uk. Youth Centre We are now looking forward to developing new projects to investigate even further into the history and heritage of Ely and Caerau, with particular focus on our very own Iron Age hillfort. The hillfort boasts incredible heritage that goes back 6,000 years. Lots of people know the medieval church, St Mary’s, but there is so much more to discover. So where can you find us to find out more and see how you can get involved? We will be at the following events with exciting, new activities and more information about the project! • 8th July @ Ely Festival. CAER Heritage Project • 14th July @ School Closure Community Celebration event. History is on your doorstep. Learn more about • 25th July @ Communities First Celebration event. activities, workshops and volunteer opportunities • 28th July @ Dusty’s Garden Party. with the local history project. The Dusty WWI project and exhibition that took place at We look forward to seeing you there! the end of last year had an incredible response in the Cardiff Story Museum, with over 3,500 people attended If you can’t make these events, but want to find out the exhibition. The show was developed and created more, we will be posting lots of information over the by local residents and school pupils, working with coming months so follow us on: archaeologists and historians from Cardiff University’s CAER Heritage Project. If you missed it, don’t panic! It is https://www.facebook.com/CAERHeritageProject/ now on display at the Glamorgan Archives where it will @CAERHeritage be displayed throughout the summer and is FREE. https://caerheritageproject.com/ 2 Finally, symbolising all things Welsh, the dragon places the school nationally as significant in a progressive, confident and ambitious Wales. Now that the badge has been chosen, we are also able to develop the school branding. The badge will be adapted for use as a logo in a variety of ways, including on a new website, school signage and stationery. The uniform design is also progressing really well and I can share the latest images with you here, with more details to follow over the coming weeks as the design is finalised: Cardiff West Community High School Update Keep up to date with the latest progress on our new local school from Martin Hulland, Head Teacher. I am delighted to announce that, following detailed and wide ranging consultation, the design above has been chosen for the Cardiff West Community High School badge. I want to thank everyone who took the time to get in touch with us during the consultation on the three design options that we put forward. For the school We’re putting together the arrangements for two it is more than just a badge, it represents our ethos, open evenings, planned to be held on the 5th and gives us an identity and marks another major step 6th July at the Michaelston Glyn Derw Federation, towards the school opening in September. where we will share the latest news about the work to open Cardiff West Community High school and The chosen badge has been inspired by the area, show more of the uniform. The open evenings will celebrating the rich heritage of the school site and be held in the school hall between 5pm and 6pm. representing the brand new, pathfinder Cardiff West Community High School. For me it is massively important to work with, and to listen to as many of you as possible, working The four icons have been taken from significant together to create a school we can all be proud of. periods of the area’s history. The horse represents If you have any questions, or if you want to arrange the former site of Ely Racecourse and symbolises to see me at my temporary office that Pencaerau spirit and freedom. Primary has kindly set-up for me, you can send an email via: [email protected] The Roman helmet and shield shape of the badge acknowledges the Roman villa at the site and I look forward to seeing you over the coming conveys a sense of safety and security. months and providing regular updates on the rapid progress being made towards opening Cardiff West The Celtic Knot references the nearby Celtic hillfort Community High School in September. and the large number of oak trees in Trelai Park, next to the new site for the school. There are many I hope you all have a fantastic summer. different types of Celtic Knot, but this one is known as a ‘Dara Knot’, chosen for the badge as it is based Yours, on the strong roots of an oak tree and represents Martin Hulland strength, wisdom and longevity. Head Teacher Designate 3 Chris Poole The Church on the Edge Bethal Church has been with our community for As Chris Poole leaves The Grapevine, here many years. Here, you can find out what they are he reflects on his time working on our local currently doing. newsletter. Bethel Presbyterian area. Its activities include I was lucky enough to join the Grapevine as a Church is a church on a time for games and craft volunteer in 2007 when I lost my job and was at a followed by refreshments, the edge. The edge, that very loose end. It was at a time when the newsletter is, of Cardiff. Located with an opportunity for on Michaelston Road, singing and hearing the was beginning to experiment with a glossed paper about 500 metres from great stories from the and colour: it was a regular publication of between the Link Road marking Bible as well. We have 8 to 12 pages. During the following years we the Western boundary of also just started a Friday were lucky enough with the commitment of all the the city, near Culverhouse night youth event, called volunteers and a number of solid regular advertisers BYG, for secondary age Cross, Bethel Church to regularly reach 12 to 16 pages, reaching in has been the ‘last church’ kids. within the city limits for 2016 a regular 20 page glossy newsletter, of which the past 25 years. The church recently every volunteer became so proud. It has also underwent some major been possible through the efforts of all to take the The congregation is renovation work to newsletter via professional distribution to a much pretty diverse in terms of improve its appearance wider base, with numbers now developed from its age spread and also and signage on the has a surprising mix of outside, but also to originally 5000+ to the present 12,500 addresses. nationalities with people make better use of the from all parts of the inside spaces. All this Unfortunately, in late 2016 health issues forced United Kingdom to South has helped towards me to revue things and resign from my position as Africa, America, Nigeria, revitalising the church treasurer of the Grapevine. A decision I took with a Romania and others and, it is hoped, will also heavy heart. besides. help to revitalise the wider community in the area. Although the church is not 2017 is the 40th year of the first publication of the large it is very active. We If you want to find out Grapevine. I really believe that a new direction have a Sunday School more about Bethel is, not only possible, but with the assistance of consisting of 5 classes you can do so at www. ACE assured. I enjoyed not only the friendships I with around 20 kids on bethelpcr.org.uk, or drop forged, but also the sense of achievement being a our rolls. There is also a in to one of our Sunday parent and toddler group services to see it first part of the ever more successful informative and that meets on Friday hand. educational newsletter that is “The Grapevine”. mornings during term Chris Poole time called Tiny Tunes. Its activities revolve around We at the Grapevine are very grateful and music for pre-school appreciative of the work that Chris has put in children (as well as tea, coffee and the during the ten years that he has been involved as chance for grown- a volunteer. His commitment and enthusiasm has up conversations been exceptional and we miss his input and easy for their parents!) cheery manner with colleagues, advertisers and readers.