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Stunning calendar on sale showcases talented Llandudno school pupils’ art

Students from John Bright school, Llandudno who have produced a calender. From left, Hannah Brownson, 14, Nathan Jones, 14, Liam Clair, 16 and Millie Shields. 16

A stunning calendar showcasing the talents of a top school’s art department is going on sale this week after a Dragon’s Den-style build-up.

The Ysgol John Bright Calendar has been put together by a team of four budding young entrepreneurs, two from Year 12 and two from Year 10, using images produced by art students at the school.

The project has been made possible by a grant from the Llwyddo’n Lleol – Succeeding Locally – project which is funded by the Welsh Government’s European Social Fund to help young people across Conwy and Denbighshire develop their career paths.

It has helped the embryo business, Annual Art, buy the equipment they needed, including a high definition camera and a printer but, first the team had to prepare a realistic business plan to show how they were going to make money – then it was down to them.

Sian Rees, the school’s Head of Performing and Expressive Arts, said: “It’s been a really good exercise because our Year 12 students in the Sixth Form have been working on enterprise as part of their Welsh Baccalaureate and now they are mentoring Year 10 pupils on how to run a business.

“We gave them the task of using the phenomenal work done in our Art Department and they have come up with the calendar which is really spectacular and which they have developed from scratch, designing it, even getting quotes for printing it as well as marketing the calendar.

“Llwyddo’n Lleol have been wonderful, paying for equipment and offering incredible support both in this and other projects so that students have had the benefit of top quality advice and training at workshops which Llwyddo’n Lleol have sponsored.

“The money they hopefully make will be ploughed back into making this project happen again next year and the skills they have gained will be cascaded down to the rest of the school.

“We want to encourage students to teach students and peer mentoring as the ability to pass on knowledge and skills is an important one.”

The four-strong team, all from Llandudno, is Liam Clair and Millie Shields, both 16, from Year 12, and Hannah Brownson and Nathan Jones, both 14, from Year 10.

Liam said: “Our aims were to showcase the art done in the school and to raise money as well and we want it to be an on going project so that after we have left it will still carry on.

“We carried out market research to see what sort of price was being charged for a good quality calendar and on average they’re about £10 so at £6.50 our calendar is very competitive.”

Millie added: “We had to get quotes for everything from the camera to the printing and we have worked on the design to send to the printers and then on producing flyers to advertise the calendar in the school.”

The 100 calendars went on sale this week though some busy marketing activity from Hannah and Nathan means there has already been keen interest.

Hannah said: “The Art teacher asked for volunteers for the project and Nathan and I put our hands up and we actually got the quotes from the printers and we’ve been distributing flyers as part of the marketing campaign.

“We’ll be setting up a stall in the Mall in the school and selling during break and also on the school website.”

Jenni Edwards, Llwyddon’n Lleol Project officer for Conwy and Denbighshire, said: “The students had to complete a business plan which is important because they have to look at the planning and the skills they will each bring and the roles they will have within the company.

“We’re trying to get students to think about entrepreneurship and starting their own businesses as a future option as it’s not really happening enough here in North Wales although it is often easier for young people because they have less to lose.

“It is vital in North Wales not only that we build a strong and skilled workforce but also that we have young people starting up their own businesses because that will create a vibrant economy for the region and in turn create more opportunities for the future.”

Thursday December 19th, 2013

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Festive school choir sing their hearts out at in Wrexham in aid of hospice

EAGLES MEADOW WREXHAM. Hafod-y-Wern Community Primary School Choir raise money for Nightingale House with carol singing at Eagles meadow . Pictured singing Solo is pupil Morgan Cavanagh,9.

A merry band of school children brought festive cheer to a shopping centre when they sang their little hearts out to raise cash for a hospice.

The choir from Hafod-y-Wern Community Primary School sang a host of Christmas classics in aid of Nightingale House hospice at Eagles Meadow shopping centre, Wrexham.

Generous shoppers dropped hand-fulls of coins in collection buckets as the 20-strong choir sang a selection of festive favourites.

Nightingale House provides specialist palliative care services, completely free-of-charge, to patients and their families.

Services include a 12 bed inpatient ward, a 15 patient daycare unit, an outpatient clinic, a specialist lymphodema unit, occupational therapy, complementary therapies, physiotherapy including a hydrotherapy pool and an ambulance service.

The hospice also offer range of bereavement support services, including a specialist service for children and young adults.

It costs £7000 per day to run and relies heavily on the generosity of the general public to raise funds.

Choir member Morgan Cavanagh, 9, sang a solo version of Tawel Nos (Silent Night in Welsh) for passing shoppers at Eagles Meadow.

He said: “Singing at Eagles Meadow is a lot of  fun. Singing solo was a bit scary at first but when you get half way through you get used to it.

“I did it last year as well so it was quite easy for me. I sing a lot. I have a lot of favourite songs. I’m looking forward to Christmas and I hope Father Christmas brings me more teddies.”

Fellow choir member Lily Arrowsmith, 7, added: “Singing at Eagles Meadow was really good. I’ve been practicing by singing around the house. I’ve been singing Rocking Around the Christmas Tree.

“We’re raising money for charity and that’s important because we’re helping other people who need the money.”

Lily’s proud mum Lisa Arrowsmith said: “I enjoy it coming to see the kids singing. My daughter is involved and I feel very proud. She loves her singing and she’s been looking forward to this. She’s pretty excited and she can’t wait for Christmas day.

Mrs Jo Ferrari, assistant head of Hafod-y-Wern Community Primary, said: “It’s really good that the children can come out here to Eagles Meadow and sing in their community. They’ve been given an opportunity to raise money for a good cause, and show people the things that they’ve been doing in school.

“We usually try to get out at Christmas once or twice, and the parents always come to support he children so it’s lovely, and the children are singing beautifully.

“Nightingale House is a very good cause and we always do our carol singing for them.

“It’s a way for children to learn about charity, and about giving back.

“We also donate to the local food bank, and we try to support local charities as much as we can.

“Things like maths and English are very important but we also want the children to develop a sense of social responsibility so for them to get the chance to come to Eagles Meadow today to do in practice is brilliant.

“We’re doing our best to be Christmassy because all of the staff are in Christmas jumpers today.”

Eagles Meadow Manager Kevin Critchley was delighted the school choir had come to the shopping centre to sing.

He said: “They sang beautifully, creating a lovely festive atmosphere at Eagles Meadow and raising money for the vitally important Nightingale House hospice.”

Wednesday December 18th, 2013

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From film to sculpture – talented teens work goes on show at Artizan

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Films by a talented teenager who has done work for the BBC’s flagship Blue Peter programme will be among artwork by talented students from a Dumbarton school which is brightening a shopping centre in the town.

Work by the pupils of Our Lady and St Patrick High School will this weekend go on show at a Christmas Craft Fair at the Artizan Shopping Centre’s Community Hub.

Among the varied range of work on display will be films, sculpture and photographs based on the surrealist Man Ray.

The Fair will be open from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, December 21, and the art, part of the students’ submissions for their Higher examinations, will be available to view.

It has been curated by school Art and Design teacher David Dunlop who said: “The sculpture, The Sapling, is by Nicole Robertson who has since gone on to university and demonstrates man’s relationship with nature while the films are the work of Sammy Mansfield.

“She is a very exciting young talent who has done work for the BBC’s Blue Peter and won a number of competitions. She has always wanted to be behind the camera rather than in front of it.

“But we’re just really excited that we have the chance to exhibit the students’ work to the public – we have small exhibition spaces in the school but for the pupils themselves to be involved in something that’s public and to know their work is being promoted in the community is outstanding.

“A lot of the kids have never even been to a gallery and to be able to visit one that’s displaying their own work is fantastic.

“Having the Community Hub as a real quality gallery space is going to get the pupils’ work out in front of lots of people and create a lot of interest.”

Firm-maker Sammy Mansfield, 16, of Castlehill, Dumbarton, has a number of films on display including one on the very topical subject of cyber bullying and one about Mr Punch, from Punch and Judy.

She said: “I entered a film competition three years ago and I won and it’s really just gone from there and through working with Mr Dunlop.

“I really enjoy it and I did a film for Blue Peter when the Olympic Torch Relay came to Dumbarton. It’s something I’d like to havee a career in.

“But the Hub here at the Artizan is a fantastic place to be able to display my work. It’s amazing that people are going to be able to come in here and see it.”

Jenna Milne, also 16, of Castlehill, has a number of photographs on show, inspired by the surrealist Man Ray, and she said: “I didn’t really think my pictures were that great but my teacher said I had a good eye.

“It doesn’t really feel real seeing my photographs on display but I am really pleased with the show.”

The Christmas Craft Fair, organised by local artist Ann Marshall, will also feature a Hip Hop Dance demonstration by Nadia Atmouni who has given dance classes in the town for several years.

There will also be a wide selection of craft stalls including wooden ornaments, home baking, paintings and photography, sock monkeys, painted Christmas slates, cards, gifts, jewellery and cakes as well as free face-painting.

The Hub was launched recently by the Artizan Shopping Centre to provide a place where the rich history and heritage of the area can be celebrated and to act as a venue which local organisations, schools and individuals can make use of.

It has been designed by the 6274 agency and is open every Thursday from 10 to 4pm but is available throughout the week and the organisers are open to suggestions for its use – the Craft Fair was the idea of local artist Anne Marshall who has put together a group of craftspeople for the weekend.

Before the Fair, on Thursday, December 19, the Dumbarton Area Council on Alcohol (DACA) will be hosting a Mocktails and Mince Pies morning in the Artizan Gallery.

It’s an opportunity to come along and enjoy a free festive nibble and a refreshing alcohol-free drink with a difference.

Amanda Eleftheriades, Links to Learning Co-ordinator for the Dumbarton Area Council on Alcohol, said: “The mocktails are a delicious alcohol-free alternative that can be enjoyed by all the family over the festive period if the pressure is on to keep on partying.

“We’ll be giving away the easy-to-make mocktail recipes along with unit measuring glasses and staff will be on hand to offer some drinking tips to help keep you and your family safe over the festive season.”

DACA provides free, confidential 1-1 counselling to anyone in West Dunbartonshire affected by their own or someone else’s alcohol misuse.

For more alcohol information and advice contact DACA on 01389 731456 or 0141 9520881. Copies of the mocktail recipes will also be available to download from the news page on our website at www.daca.org.uk.

Louise Scott, Marketing Executive for the Artizan Centre, said: “It would be good to make events like the Craft Fair regular items on the calendar and we are working on a programme for the Hub and the Centre for the coming months.

“We are very encouraged by the enthusiasm being shown by local people for the venture and the way they have embraced it.

“The Hub is open every Thursday at present but local organisations can take charge of it for the day for events and just hand the keys back at closing time.”

For more information about the Artizan Shopping Centre and the Community Hub and how to make use of it go to www.artizancentre.co.uk or Facebook page ton">www.facebook.com/artizangallerydumbarton

Wednesday December 18th, 2013

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Recognition for Vicky the Shrewsbury M&S café worker with a heart of gold

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A café worker with a heart of gold has been nominated for a top award by Marks and Spencer in Shrewsbury after two decades of voluntary work.

Vicky Moore says that in 1993 her mum put her name forward when blind piano teacher and tuner, Edward Wilkins, of Shrewsbury, was looking for a driver so he could get to appointments.

Vicky, who has worked as a customer service advisor in the café at the M&S store in Shrewsbury’s Darwin Centre for the past 10 years, says she thought she’d help Edward out for a couple of months.

But, 20 years on, she still spends two days a week driving him to appointments and says she thoroughly enjoys what she does.

She said: “My daughter, Charlotte, was learning to play the piano and we called Edward out to tune my mum’s piano which Charlotte was using to learn on.

“That was 20 years ago. And he told us he was looking for a driver to take him to piano tuning appointments.

“My mum decided to volunteer me and two decades on I’m still driving Edward around to his appointments. I used to take him more than two days a week but I had to reduce it when I got the job at M&S in the café here at the Darwin Centre.

“Now, on Tuesdays and Fridays, the days I don’t work in the café, I take him out to his appointments. I’m even a dab hand now at helping him change strings.

“However, I haven’t got a musical bone in my body and you wouldn’t want to hear someone play a piano I’d tuned!”

Ruth Hart, Food Manager at M&S in the Darwin Centre, said: “We nominated Vicky for the ‘Pride of M&S Award’ as we felt that through her voluntary work she has gone the extra mile to make M&S proud.

“The award aims to celebrate and reward the achievements of our colleagues who have made a difference through incredible courage, determination and initiative together with celebrating all that is good about M&S.”

Vicky added: “Being Edward’s driver is something I really enjoy. It’s voluntary, although he does cover the petrol we use.

“He’s a lovely man and I really do find my days driving him around quite relaxing. I get a lot of satisfaction from it and he is a real gentleman.

“I have the best of both worlds really as I love working in the café, the customers are really friendly and I’m part of a great team. I can actually say I look forward to going to work which is a nice way to be.”

However, Edward Wilkins will lose his dedicated driver for more than a month next year as Vicky is heading Down Under.

She said: “Charlotte moved out to Cairns, in Australia, three years ago and my mum and I are going out to see her, and her partner, for the first time early next year.

“I can’t wait to see her. She initially went to New Zealand and came home before saving up and going back out but to Australia. She’s now training to be a nurse.

“It will be so emotional seeing her again. I have a son, David, 24, and he still lives at home with me but I really miss seeing Charlotte.”

Edward, 86, a retired music teacher at the College for the Blind, says Vicky has been a wonderful driver for him.

He said: “I can get about as I do have a guide dog but, as I still tune pianos right across Shropshire and surrounding counties, I need someone who can get me to appointments.

“I always feel safe with Vicky she is calm and unhurried and it’s always a smooth drive. She’s actually excellent at putting new strings on a piano and like many women she’s neat and something of a perfectionist.

“Music means a lot to me and I have always enjoyed piano tuning and have no intention of stopping as I feel perfectly fit and able. Having Vicky to drive me though is just superb. She is so reliable and has never let me down.”

Vicky added: “It was a real shock to see someone had nominated me for the Employee of the Year Award.

“It’s nice being recognised for what I do even if, for me, it’s nothing special. M&S is a wonderful company to work for and I really enjoy being part of a fantastic team.”

Kevin Lockwood, Manager of the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside Shopping Centres, said: “Vicky is part of a great team at M&S in the Darwin Centre and she still finds time to help out someone like this.

“It’s great the way the store have recognised her for her efforts and that those efforts have enabled Mr Wilkins to carry on with a profession that clearly gives him so much pleasure.”

Monday December 16th, 2013

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