Kingsway Villagers

It has been a long time in the discussion, but Kingsway is about to get its very own Children’s Centre. This will be based in the grounds of Kingsway Primary School and together these two organisations will offer much needed services for children and families, in your community.

On Wednesday 3rd February from 5.00 – 7.00pm, the plans will be on display at Kingsway Primary School for any interested residents to view. Key personnel will also be present for any of your questions and for hearing your ideas for shaping our services to your community. We will also invite you to have a look around the school and to meet the Headteacher too.

Without the support of this community, others will shape the services that are offered which may not be what you would choose. Please do come along and help us get this right. Please pass the message on to any residents you think will be interested in this event.

Thank you,

Mrs Needham (Headteacher of Kingsway Primary School)

Last Friday (27th November) I attended two local meetings, as follows:

Police SCT Meeting

Complaints have been received from Kingway residents, regarding youths bullying younger children in the big park, and cars speeding on Woodvale and Thatcham Avenue. Both of these issues will receive close Police attention in the immediate future.

In addition, the Police are clamping down on local cyclists riding without lights. Spot fines will be issued and unsafe bikes may even be confiscated.

In January 2010, a new local "Beat Manager" – Sam Jones – will be joining PCSO Debbie Brimfield in Kingsway.

Youth Pod

Sheila Golder (Equals Youth Centre) reported that planning permission has (finally) been received for placement of the Youth Pod in the car park at Kingsway Primary School. The pod is expected to be sited by February 2010 (half term) and will provide some badly needed facilities for local youths.

Residents Association Meeting

The first meeting since the new committee was formed was to have included elections for the committee, but since there were 10 places and only 10 volunteers, elections were not necessary.

The meeting minutes are available on our Residents Association Home Page.

Equals Youth Centre (Quedgeley) have a fabulous program of events lined up for this summer, running from 20th July to 21st August, including:

A street games session to be held at (the big park) Kingsway, EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 6pm – 8pm.

A special Summer Project for 13/14 year olds, including trips and BBQ’s, 3 days per-week throughout the holidays…
(Click the "summer project" link above for further details).

Sheila Golder and the team at Equals Youth Centre are largely accredited with the reduction in crime and anti-social behaviour issues involving young people in the Quedgeley Parish, and are also in constant contact and communication with young people in Kingsway via their dedicated outreach workers, as well as giving constant support to young people at Severn Vale School.

Sheila is always looking for voluntary youth workers, so – if you’re interested in helping out – please contact her on 01452 722484.
 
 
For details of the full 2009 summer program, see our Equals Youth Centre page.

We are a small local Christian community (MU32U) who come into Kingsway School each Wednesday to run the school assembly.

We are considering starting a youth group, particularly for the children who will be leaving the school this year. The only way we can run such a group is if we have enough volunteers to support us in supervising the children. If your child is interested please could you email us at mu32u@btinternet.com

You can check out our website to see who we are and what other activities we run in the Quedgeley/Kingsway area.

Judi

Mrs. Judi Barr
Leader (MU32U)

I was told last week, that the POD for Kingsway was well on its way to being installed next to the School… Hooray at last somewhere we can go in the evenings.

Now I have been told that the Developers have now pulled the plug on the site again.

What must we do?

We need somewhere to go in our area… Kingsway!

If anything happens on the site, we the (teenagers) get the blame, and are labelled with anti-social behaviour.

Come on Developers, we need this!

Kingsway Primary School students Sophie and her younger brother Morgan achieved brilliant results at the regional Karate tournament held in Reading on Saturday 7th March 2009 to bring home 5 medals between them, 3 Golds and 2 Silver.

10 year old Sophie, took Gold in her individual Kata event followed by Silver for her Kumite (sparring) and in the Afternoon went on to assist the team in bringing home a Silver medal for their synchronised team Kata. 7 year old Morgan took Gold for both his individual events.
 

Both Sophie and Morgan have been competing at Championships all over the UK for the past 2/3 years and in 2007 Sophie represented the UK and proudly came home with the title World Karate Champion for her style of Kata, followed three months later with UK Karate Champion. In 2008 both Sophie and Morgan took Gold, Silver and Bronze places respectively at the regional tournaments and went on to finish the year as UK Bronze Finalists.

Sophie is hoping that Saturday’s victorious win will help her and Morgan get the funding that they need to allow them to go to Melbourne, Australia in August and for her the chance to defend her World Champion title and for Morgan to participate in his first international tournament.
 
 
Mum Gill also said: “The children have been asked to do a demonstration by their head teacher (Mrs Paula Needham) to which they have agreed and are busy organising this right now. Some of the staff also mentioned that they might like to participate! Their instructor is hoping to come along to assist and to explain how some of these moves can be used as self-defence as well as a way of getting active. Hopefully I will have confirmation of a date for the school demo, later today or tomorrow so I will let you know.”

As always – Click on the Pic(’s) to see the larger version(s).