Have you heard about the Headmaster who was prosecuted for excessive caning? Or the Headmaster who didn’t have a pay rise for 30 years? When he complained he was given 3 months’ notice. All this and more can be found in ‘Honour Wisdom’ a short history of Frenchay Primary School. If you went to the school or know …

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Frenchay Primary are enjoying their first months in the new school. It has definitely been worth the wait! The children are so excited about so many aspects of the building, the space, the new interactive teaching panels, that playground and field and the huge hall, far bigger than what we are used to! Even the new …

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Tuckett Pond We have been doing some investigations into the low level of the water (appreciate we have had little rain!) which has possibly been due to tree roots in the wall and the fall of a tree damaging the wall as well. It needs to be professionally surveyed and when we last had work done to desilt the pond the …

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Dear Friends and Neighbours, We understand from Winterbourne Parish Council (WPC) that all the final agreements are now in place for the Voluntary Village Green and Nature Reserve to be handed over to the Parish. The end of a very long and winding road, going right back to the previous RUG campaign nearly 10 years ago, …

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The Residents Association have also had a request from Catherine McCoy of SGC for help with the ‘park and stride’ scheme for the new school as follows; We are looking for a few more people to volunteer to help share opening and closing the gates of the Rugby Club to enable the Park & Stride site for the …

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The Residents Association have also just been offered by BAM (new school builders) some surplus sand and building materials which has to be moved before saturday, this donation will help us with the nature reserve pond restoration work and needs moving ASAP. So if anyone has a spade, wheelbarrow and some time from …

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We have 500 wildflower plug plants ready to be planted on the Frenchay Hill embankment, we intend to start at 10am this Saturday morning (8th Oct) meeting by the telephone kiosk. Please bring enthusiasm, a hand trowel or fork, gardening gloves and stout outdoor shoes/boots. If we have surplus volunteers we can also …

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Reverend Charles and Kath would like you to know how much the benefice of Frenchay and Stapleton means to them: its people, its activities and so many joyful times shared together. This includes his involvement with the schools in Frenchay and Stapleton parishes. However, for some time Charles has felt that there has …

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Following the announcement of the death of Her Majesty The Queen. The Chair of South Gloucestershire Council, Councillor Sanjay Shambhu, said the following: “On behalf of all councillors and staff of South Gloucestershire Council, I would like to express our deepest condolences to the Royal Family at this very sad …

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Construction work has begun on 30 climate friendly and energy efficient new family homes being built at Manor Gardens, a new development located off Malmains Drive in Frenchay, South Gloucestershire. A turf-cutting ceremony was held at the site on Thursday 18 August featuring representatives from South Gloucestershire …

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