WVN_May_2017

MAY 2017

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the WVN are considered by
midday on the 20th of each
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This edition edited by
Susie Harding

Whitley Rose Queen. Past, present and future

Whitley Rose Queen 2017 Can you help us ? Where are
these people now?
On Friday 31st March Whitley Village Hall was the
venue for our Rose Queen Selection Evening and As part of the Whitley Rose Queen 2017 fete day
junior disco. Our present Rose Queen, Bethany proceedings we are inviting all our past Rose
Underdown made the all important draw and we are Queens back to help us celebrate our 70th
delighted to announce that the 2017 Rose Queen anniversary.
elect and retinue will be:-
Do you know where any of the following now live
Rose Queen - Tilly O'Rourke or have a contact number for them -
Retinue - Rene Bratherton, Maisey Wilcox, Joshua
Christine Parr - Rose Queen 1955
!White, Percy Bratherton, Jamie Winstanley. Muriel Morgan - Rose Queen 1957
Kim Corfield - Rose Queen 1960
The evening produced a fantastic profit of £222 Margarite Schmitt - Rose Queen 1964
which was donated to Whitley School. Thank you to Janice Price - Rose Queen 1965
Caroline Hickerton - Rose Queen 1976
!all who attended. Diana Johnson - Rose Queen 1978

Saturday, 10th June sees us celebrate our 70th !Emma McBean - Rose Queen 1985
Anniversary. We have plans for an extra special day -
please make a note of the date in your diaries and we If you can help please contact Suzanne Faulkner on
look forward to seeing you all there. 01925 730797 or [email protected]

Dates for WHITLEY VILLAGE NEWS - WE’RE HIRING!
your diary The Whitley Village News is looking for new editors to join our lively

! and dedicated editing team.
No writing experience is needed but you should be enthusiastic,
FRIENDLY CLUB computer literate, have access to a computer and be prepared to offer
Thursday 11th and 25th May
a few hours - approximately ten - twice a year to compile the
Whitley Village Hall
!magazine. And of course it goes without saying, love living in Whitley.
2-4pm Deadline date for submissions is the 20th of each month so you'll
need to be available around then to assemble the magazine.
New members welcome The other editors will provide all the support you need so don't be
!scared, come and join us and give it a go.
! We're proud of our new-style magazine and want WVN to continue to
!
be a mouthpiece for our wonderful village so fresh ideas and new
Thursday 18th May talent is definitely welcome.

Day Out to Llandudno If you would like to be part of our team then please give either me
(Gill) or Helen a call and we'll talk you through it.
Leaving Village Hall at 9.30am
Gill Whitworth 01925 730712 or Helen Carey 01925 730329.
! And finally, a big thank you to Susie Harding and Anita Cawley for
! your wise, positive and creative input to the village news over the last
! couple of years. It's been an absolute pleasure getting to know you
and having you on the team. We wish you both well in developing
MOBILE LIBRARY
Wednesday 4th and 25th May your respective businesses and look forward to keeping in touch.

Whitley Village Hall

10.10 - 10.40 am

PLEASE USE THIS FABULOUS
FACILITY TO ENSURE IT CAN
COME TO OUR VILLAGE

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WHITLEY VILLAGE SCHOOL
Thursday’s 2.45pm (term time only,
all welcome). Celebration assembly,
come and help celebrate the
achievement of the children.

8th - 11th May

SATS week for year 6

15th - 25th May

Year 2 SATS

Whitley WI - March Meeting


Janine from Village Florist, Stockton Heath gave us a
fascinating demonstration of Floristry, with a theme of Easter
for her displays. Using interesting containers and beautiful
flowers she showed us how to create a framework of foliage
and then add feature flowers to provide height and width.
Some of her arrangements featured 'pussy willow' twigs and
twisted hazel stems which she used to great effect, and
explained that, if these are dried out, they can last for a long
time. As she worked, she gave a fascinating insight into her
long and varied career working with plants and flowers in
markets, garden centres and florists. She described herself
as a florist, rather than a flower arranger – the difference
between the two became particularly clear when she told us
about shutting herself away for several days as she created
hundreds of bouquets/arrangements for Mothers Day. Janine
generously donated the several displays she produced as our
raffle prizes.
Recent County and Group events included a meeting addressing
Climate Change, the Group meeting where the highly
entertaining and professional Judith Hibbert amused us with
her singing repertoire 'Around the Wireless',and the Darts
League and County Competition where our team excelled this
year.
Planned activities include our May outing to Menai and
Llandudno, a visit to Sainsburys, our Group Spring Lunch and
the regular walking and book club meetings. The Bowls team
will begin their season later this month.
A highlight of our summer plans is our Garden Party in aid of
the WI Denman College, on Sat 24th June
New members are always made most welcome. For more
information visit our website www.whitleywi.org.uk, you can
leave a message in the content section if you need further details

!WHITLEY PARISH COUNCIL GREY MATTER PUZZLE

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING !KEEP YOUR BRAIN ACTIVE WITH A CHALLENGE…….

(and Annual Parish Assembly) In the early 18th Century, Mrs Abigail Eischrank of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. gave birth to 13
Will take place in children. Exactly half of them were girls. Explain how

The Village Hall !this was possible!

!TUESDAY MAY 9th 2017@ 7pm Answer is on the website:
!For all the current information please go to . www.whitleyvillage.info

www.whitleyvillage.info in the newsletter section!

then open Parish Council. WANTED urgently.   Help with gardening etc. for
about 2 to 3 hours each week. Please contact Mr.or
You will find lots of information, meeting
Mrs.Astill at 1 Grimsditch Barn or phone
dates, projects

!and much more.

* Refreshments on arrival.

We have had a very busy few months at Whitley Village School. We have had our visit from OFSTED

and we are delighted to say they Whitley is a ‘Good’ school. We are thrilled with this result and would

like to say a huge thank you to all of our families who support us and their children on a daily basis. Well

!done team Whitley!!

Year 6 and Year 2 are preparing for their end of Key Stage assessments and the rest of the school have

been busy with their learning too! It’s not all just work; to celebrate their success and time at Whitley the Year 6 children will be

!taking part in an outdoor adventure day at Pettypool after the SATs are over.!

Entering the summer term and we are excited to begin welcoming 10 new children joining our lovely school. We will be

!running several transition days to ensure that the new children are happy when they start school.!

Year 6 won’t be the only adventurers, the Year 4 children will be joining their friends at The Acorns Primary and Nursery school

for a residential at the Conway Centre. Whilst Class 1 have been very excited by the arrival of a family of chicken eggs; we

have been watching them hatch and have been enjoying seeing them take their first few steps. At the end of the 10 day

!hatching experience a family at school will be re-housing the chicks.!

Whitley school celebrated Comic Relief with a whole school dance off! A big thank you to Mrs Walker who danced alongside

!the children for 3 hours straight. The parents enjoyed joining in too at the end of the afternoon.!

The reception children enjoyed joining the pre-school children for a morning of Easter crafts and games. Thanks to everyone

!at Pre-school for organising such a lovely event.!

We have had an exciting range of sports activities going on at school. Class 1 have been going out and working hard to run a

mile every single day! Class 2 and 3 have been receiving tennis coaching and many of the children have been attending an

!after school tennis club. They are all thoroughly enjoying their sports lessons. !

The staff and children have begun preparing for Whitley Village Rose Queen. This year, we will be singing songs from the

musical Oliver! We are busy learning the song lyrics and practising our dance moves and look forward to seeing you all there!

PLANNING APPLICATIONS

Application No. Application Address Name Comments Date Date
and Date Mr R Bryan By Whitley Cheshire
Five Oaks, Raddel West &
Lane PC Chester
Whitley Edge, Village Commen Approve /
Lane Refuse
ts

16/04980/FUL Replacement 27/02/17 26/2/17
Dated 6/2/17 stables
17/00456/FUL Detached Mr C Wilson 07/03/17 23/2/17 Approved
Garage 8/3/17
!Dated 14/02/17

17/00334/FUL Use of pond for Bentleys Farm Mr P Barber 3/4/17 31/3/17 Approved
recreational 3/4/17
!Dated 13/3/17 fishing

17/00707/FUL The partial Ivy House, Northwich Mr L 11/04/17 11/4/17
demolition, Road Goldsmith 02/05/17
!Dated 21/03/17 erection of rear Mr A
extension Thwaites
17/01249/FUL
One dwelling – Whitley Methodist
!Dated 11/04/17 Further to extant Church, Pillmoss Lane
permission
13/03981/FUL