Kingsway Villagers

Adverts are out for more jobs at the new school

When we fully open we will need a total of four Midday Supervisors, and as soon as possible a Clerk to the Governors.

From 1 January 2009 we need three Teaching Assistants, the closing date for these is 25 July 2008:
Post One: Foundation Stage Teaching Assistant.
Post Two: SEN focused Teaching Assistant.
Post Three: Teaching Assistant to work with an individual statemented pupil for 10 hours per week

Further details are available from the Headteacher, Mrs Needham, at Kingsway Primary School, c/o Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester. GL1 2TP. Tel 01452 425077 or email: [email protected]

The jobs adverts are: here.

This post was submitted by Julian Powell.

The first meeting of the Kingsway Residents Association went ahead as planned and approximately 35 people attended. All things considered, we were very pleased with the turnout and I wish to personally thank everybody who attended. It was extremely gratifying to see so many people so enthusiastic about the future of our community and I really felt that we now have a chance to do something special for the future of the Village.

The meeting was chaired by Cllr’s Bryan Claridge and Ann Mozol of the Quedgeley Parish Council. Once again I would like to thank them on our behalf for giving up their time to help us.

The minutes will be published on here as soon as they are available but (to the best of my recollection), the major points agreed were:

• The elected commitee will hold their respective positions for an initial period of 6 months.
• “Open meetings” will take place approximately every 2 months.
• The committee will hold “closed meetings” on a 2 monthly basis.
• In “extraordinary circumstances” additional meetings may be arranged as required.
• The commitee will hold it’s first (closed) meeting on Monday 7th July at 8pm.
• The first open meeting will take place on August 8th at 7:30pm (venue to be confirmed).
• In order to avoid open meetings from “dragging on” for too long, the agenda will be set before the meeting starts. Residents will (of course) be invited to propose items to be added to the agenda up to (I think we said) 3 days before the meeting date.

The following people were elected to the committee:

• Barry Kirby (Chairman)
• Ian MacLauchlan (Secretary)
• Richard Read (Treasurer)
• Clive Barton (me - lol) Web Officer *

After the election of the main 3 committee members, there followed a discussion about “additional positions” which included an interesting proposal along the lines of electing an office for each area (building phase) to be both a local contact for residents and to help publicise and promote the RA in those areas. I think it’s a good idea and hope to discuss it further at future meetings.

* For myself, I explained that I was loath to volunteer for the 3 major roles because of both time constraints and because I wished to focus on reporting the RA’s activities on this ’site as well as bringing matters from blog subscribers to the attention of the Association. In order to do that successfully, I suggested that I should like to be part of the committee (something along the lines of a “vice-secretary”)! My request met with much support (thank you all) and Barry suggested the title of “Web Officer”, thus this “extra-ordinary role” was created!

As I said earlier, this is just my recollection (I’d make a terrible secretary - lol) and the official version will be posted shortly; so - if I missed something really important, please don’t shoot the messenger

As a resident of Thatcham Ave I would like to know when the potholes are going to be repaired. As we know we have to wait for the top surface to be added. It is a nightmare to drive through it’s now impossible to miss the holes, causing damage to tracking on our cars.

As for the sign for Thatcham Avenue at the roundabout. it is constantly blocked by a red car parked on the roundabout. Why do they not use their garage or parking space allocated to there property? If emergency vehicles have have to come in at night it will be almost impossible for them and again, they will not be able to see the road sign and a sat nav does not work here. Why are people so inconsiderate?

The sooner the double yellow lines go down the better.

Also, can anyone please answer my following question: Why are the bus bollards not working again?

I use my car every day either to go shopping or to visit friends, always using the bypass and never going under the bridge where the bollards are situated. On Thursday I thought I would spend an hour checking how many cars are flouting the £1500.00 fine. To my amazement 30 cars sped by me oblivious of all the signs saying “Buses Only” and a thought occurred to me:
30x£1500.00 = £45000.00 in extra revenue!

Just think what all that money could be used for!

This post was submitted by teddybear..

Hi All

Better late than never! The venue for tomorrow nights meeting will be the Robert Hitchins Offices.

Maps will be placed in the parish notice boards (beside small park and the bus stop), however brief directions are:
Out of the village to the A38 towards J12. Turn left at the roundabout towards the Waterwells Business Park. Left at the next roundabout towards the park and ride and head up to Naas Lane. at the T junction to Naas Lane turn RIGHT and then left and follow the signs to the building where the meeting is.

Apologies for the lack of ideal venue but it is the best we can do. And please don’t let it put you off! Please come!

Barry

This post was submitted by Baz_k.

We have lived in Kingsway for two years. As the site has developed and more and more villagers now reside here, isn’t it about time we had post boxes located in the village?

With the ‘green issue’ well and truly on everyone’s agenda, surely basic amenities like this should be a priority?

Currently it takes a round trip of nearly 5 miles and roughly 20 minutes to travel by car to a post box; one cannot always walk with a large volume of mail to post.

It feels as if we are waiting far too long for the ‘basics’ to be provided at Kingsway.

This post was submitted by pleasant.