January 2008

YOUR LOCAL AREA

WHAT’S GOING ON

Issue 19

Communitymattersthe community partnership

In thIs Issue

norwood tunnel update

Welcome home june cooperIn Focus: Wales HIgH scHool

Kiveton & Wales

COMMUNITY NEWS

Josh Hill racing to success

Full story inside!

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Tuesday 5th February 2008 Open Meeeting

6:30pmCome along at 5:45

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Happy New Year!! We hope you have had a lovely Christmas and wish you all the very best for the coming year.

Before Christmas, staff at the Colliery Offices have been busy moving rooms to improve the training facilities and workspace available for hire. Offices are currently available to hire with a range of rooms to suit different purposes, for example meetings, interviews and training. If you would like to discuss rates or size of rooms, contact Kelly on 01909 773348 or kelly@kpwcdt.co.uk for more details.

More training classes have been put on for 2008 and you can see a schedule of some of these planned for a January start on page 9. The training room have been re-vamped and the office and reception has now moved to Room 10. There is also a scheme running to help get you back into work, if you need help with interview techniques, CV’s, writing letters, basic IT or job-seeking, contact Julie on 01909 773348 and we can arrange for an appointment to discuss your needs.

This issue brings a Norwood Tunnel update and Steph Hryschko adds a touch of nostalgia with her tale of the 1957 Miss England contest winner. You can see a report from the Chair of the History Society on page 7

about the launch of the website on 28th November. The “In Focus” of this issue is dedicated to Wales High School on page 6.

Local lad Josh Hill, is pictured on the front cover during one of his races. Read about his success on the opposite page.

Before you go on to enjoy issue 19, we would like to congratulate John Tanner on his new appointment in Barnsley. John, from all staff at the Colliery Offices, it has been a real pleasure working with you and we wish you all the very best in your new post – please come back and visit us very soon, we will miss you!

Kiveton & Wales Community Matters Newsletter brings you news, views and information of your local area. If you would like to be included in a future issue, please contact julie@kpwcdt.co.uk or phone us on 01909 773348. It’s now time to read on………

Thanks to every one who came to our 10th Annual General Meeting, we had an excellent

attendance of over 140 people.

A big thank you to the retiring trustees, Ann Britton, Colin Savage, Joyce Cope, Keith Bamforth and Jenny Wysall and welcome to the new trustees Keith Aisling, Jenny and Keith Stone.

The newly elected board are as follows:OfficersChair – Peter BlanksbyVice-Chair – Stephanie HryshkoSecretary – Brenda BradleyTreasurer – Mark Bagshaw

Committee MembersArthur Whiteway, Keith Stone, Jenny Stone, Keith Aisling, Janine Cope, George Cope.

Members were informed of the remarkable turnaround in the Trusts finances and Chair, Stephanie Hryshko reported on all the activities that were undertaken by the Trust in the community.

Congratulations to John Tanner, our departing History Project Manager who will be working on a project to transform Barnsley Town Hall into a major heritage centre.

Steph Hryshko

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Pictured above is Josh with his recently obtained trophy.

Wales High School student Josh Hill started riding a quad bike off road at the

young age of eight. Three years later, he progressed to two wheels after visiting a mini motor race at Newark. Josh’s father Mark tells us “after buying Josh his own bike and practicing for two years – I could see his confidence raising and I was eager to try him in a proper race.”

In March 2007, Josh got a Polini GP3 4.2 which meant he could take part in races. He started practicing

on it straight away. As the season progressed, Mark saw a vast improvement in Josh’s riding style as he got faster and smoother. “I knew there was potential and he could do very well,” says Mark.

Team Hill 52 was born, and Josh travelled with his father to every round. In April 2007,

Josh started the Lucky Devils Mini Moto Championship which consists of 9 rounds - he finished top 10 in every round and finished a magnificent 5th overall at the end of the season - not bad for the first season in racing!

Josh will hopefully move up a class to the 4.2 lights for 2008. “I am very excited and I know there is more to come from Josh,” says his dad Mark. “He is getting better all the time and with a year underneath his belt, I believe he can have a really good go at the 4.2 light class”.

Josh is looking forward to racing next

season, “My ambition is to race in a replica helmet of James Toseland, that would be cool!” said Josh.

Mark Hill also has another reason to be proud. Josh’s sister Sidonie has been competing on the trampoline and achieved 5th place in Wolverhampton, 2nd place in Sheffield, 8th place in Nottingham and 2nd place in Worksop in November.

Well done Team Hill and good luck in your future competitions!

Paying tribute to the sponsors, Team Hill 52 would like to thank Drillwell

Ltd., Unistates Ltd., J.M.R. Lighting and Hosetech Hydraulics for their

sponsorship in 2007.

Pictured here is James Toseland, World Superbike Champion,

with Barry Marsh, Chair of the Wales Parish Council, at the switch on of the village lights.

We would like to congratulate James on his fantastic achivements for 2007 including being crowned regional Sports Personality of the Year.

James has also asked to have a brick in the community wall and will be coming to the opening event.

We would like to thank Mr Ray Alderton who recently sent us a letter after attending one of our 10 week Family History courses. We would

like to thank Ray for his kind words.

“I recently attended a ten week course on family history, which also included using computers, data storage and information transfer. Older people like myself do not find using computers easy, especially the terminology used, but this course was very relaxed and the tuition was very good. It is also a good way to meet people and share experiences, as older people can become isolated in their communities. I hope this type of course will continue in the future and maybe expand into other skills.”

In response to feedback Kiveton Creative have now obtained funding for stage 2 courses. Please call if you would like details on any of our courses: 01909 773348.

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Norwood Tunnel

In the last issue we promised you an update in the first step of the opening of the tunnel. Here is the report from Keith Ayling Chairman

of the Chesterfield Canal Trust Ltd.Since the re-opening of Rotherham’s part of the Chesterfield Canal in 2003, attention has been drawn to the next big obstacle - the collapsed Norwood Tunnel. This 2880yd tunnel (opened in 1775) took the canal east-west from Wales in Rotherham into Derbyshire above the village of Killamarsh. A hundred years ago, on October 18th 1907, the tunnel finally collapsed and has lain undisturbed since then. Using £85k granted by Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward, the Chesterfield Canal Partnership has commissioned consultant engineers Arup to answer

the question ‘How can we forge the missing link on the canal to join Rotherham with Derbyshire once again?’ The emerging solution was spelt out at a ceremony attended by members of the Chesterfield Canal Partnership and representatives of the local community including the CDT and parish councils at the eastern portal of the closed

Norwood Tunnel near Kiveton Park on Saturday October 13th.Consultants Arup’s work so far suggests a radical solution - forget about a tunnel - let’s go up and over the hill on the surface! This is close to the 18th century canal engineer , James Brindley’s original solution, which involved a very much shorter tunnel at 630 yards, than the one finally con-structed. Under the new proposals about 500 yards of the tunnel at the eastern end will remain underground, before being lifted by two canal locks to ground level. The canal will cross the former Kiveton Park Colliery site, then rise by a series of locks to the summit. Although today the M1 motorway crosses the summit level above the former tunnel, a farm access and footpath which can be adapted to include the canal will allow a way under. More new locks will allow the descent through Norwood to join the top of the existing, although derelict, Norwood flight of locks, then on to Killamarsh following a new route through the Rother Valley Country Park.The prospect of a completely new canal for south Rotherham is an exciting development, as well as solving the most difficult engineering problem the whole restoration project faces - the long collapsed Norwood Tunnel.The Norwood Tunnel was an eighteenth century civil engineering masterpiece of the country’s major canal builder James Brindley, and his second in command John Varley. At the time of its construction it was the longest in the country, and a pioneering project, as there was no prior expe-rience of such lengthy and accurate tunnelling to draw upon. The tunnel was constructed by sinking a series of vertical shafts and then working horizontally from the bottom of each shaft until each connected with its neighbours. An exact level had to be maintained throughout. Only rudimentary tools - picks and shovels - were available to the navvies (navigators) in its construction, although the work, dangerous enough, was speeded up by the use of gunpowder. Candles would supply the only lighting. Started in 1771 the tunnel was finally completed in 1775, having used some three million bricks in the process. Not having a towing path for the horses, boats had to be ‘legged’ through by their crew, by laying on the roof of the boat and ‘walking’ along the tunnel walls.

Cruises provided by the Canal Trust were

held on the summit from Kiveton Park station

over the weekend 12 - 14 October

Members of the Chesterfield Canal Partnership celebrate the draft report at Kiveton Park on 13th October. Steph from the CDT is on the left of the picture.

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Local AreayourWelcome Home June

Cooper!!!!As a child growing up in Kiveton in the 1950’s one of my earliest memories was of the first “graffiti”.

It was 1958 and someone had written in white paint “Welcome Home June Cooper” on the wall in front of the Old Rows. The letters must have been at least two feet tall and you couldn’t pass through Kiveton without noticing it.

It had been written because a Kiveton girl had been crowned “Miss England” and the community were very proud of “our June” in an era before beauty contests became taboo.

The title was very short lived as the organisers soon found out that June had been a few days too young for the minimum age entry.

Kiveton didn’t mind as they knew that she was still the most beautiful – official or unofficial!!

The writing stayed on the wall for years and no one even thought of removing it.

I was having this nostalgic conversation recently with Margaret Farnsworth, a student on one of our adult learner courses. It turned out that Margaret had been at school with June Cooper (now June Perkis) and still keeps in touch with her although she has lived in London for many years.

We began to hatch an idea.

Wouldn’t it be great if June had her name back on the wall in our dedicated brick project in the community garden and, even better, if she would “come home” for the opening of the dedicated garden building.

June said that she would be delighted and proud to do this.

We now have over £3,000 of brick orders, the plans are drawn and building work will start in the spring. Thanks go to Ken Chapman for his architectural skills and advice.

It is good to have so many community groups and businesses buying bricks – everyone from hair stylists to pub landlords, Rainbows to Red Road!!!

We look forward to a grand opening event in the summer.

It is not too late to have a family name, business or community group there for posterity. Please contact us on 01909 773348 or call in at the Old Colliery Offices for more details

Steph HryschkoChair of the Trust

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All aspects of the learning are covered by informative handouts. The facilitator has been involved with community centres for 30 years and is familiar with most problems connected to managing a community building.

School in focus:Wales High School

Our Aim as a Specialist College for

Business and Enterprise

To enrich the education process of all the

young people in our school through our

specialism, developing in them an awareness of the world of work and providing them with the enterprise skills necessary to be successful in their lifelong journey.

Young Chamber

During the past twelve months we are proud

to have launched the first Young Chamber

in mainland UK. The Wales High School

Young Chamber aims to enable the students

of the school to control their enterprise

environment. It was launched to all year

groups, who elected a representation

council. The councils then elected year

group presidents and vice presidents, before,

live on Hallam FM Lucas Brammer was

elected as the first President of the Wales

High School Young Chamber. The whole

Young Chamber programme is being run

in partnership with Rotherham Chamber of

Commerce.

The Young Chamber groups have begun

to set the enterprise agenda for their year

groups, developing marketplace events and

running whole day events for their year

groups.

In addition the school has made a member

of staff available to the Specialist Schools

and Academies Trust to take the lead in

the production of a resource guiding all

schools in the running of Young Chamber.

The aim of the resource is that it will be

made available to all schools in the country

through the DCSF enterprise unit.

Y7 and Y11 Enterprise Events

In the first term of this year the school

ran two major enterprise events. Both

were highly successful and were run in

conjunction with The Music Factory

Entertainment Group and Rotherham

Chamber of Commerce. The whole day

events were aimed at developing pupils

enterprise capabilities, such as teamwork,

problem solving, creative thinking,

organisation and planning skills and

developing a positive attitude.

Comments from staff and pupils in the

evaluations: “The whole event was really

worthwhile and I thought it was a good

benefit to the Year Group as a whole and

particularly one or two of the disaffected.”

“Pupils absolutely loved it! ‘Raved’ about it

for hours! Very well organised”.

Sixth Form Study visit to Barcelona

A group of 25 Business students had

the opportunity to visit a number of

international businesses in Barcelona during

October as part of a cultural study visit.

The students can then apply their course

learning in real situations strengthening

their understanding of the curriculum.

Pupil Opportunities

A wide range of pupil opportunities have

been made available because of the funding

from our Specialism. Some examples are

listed below:Community Summer Fair: Raise

awareness of the world of work in

theatre: Electronic amps project.

Master chef Food club for Y10 Food

students: WEBZ marketplace events

based around annual themes such

as Christmas and Easter: DVD’s

of French student visits abroad to

be used as authentic Teaching and

Learning materials.

Journalism club: Production of a school magazine celebrating enterprise: Sixth Form Rag challenge

event.Visits to 11 Downing Street: BBC

Radio Project: Africa Club.

Y10 Drama Club: Recycling project

Environment Club

Dragons Men Theatre: Enhancement

of History: ART upgrade group.

Production to Edinburgh: club to

develop awareness campaigns about

impact/lessons learnt from history

and working with others…………

Schools Enterprise Education Network

Two years ago the school was asked

to take on a regional role in leading

South Yorkshire in the development of

enterprise education for all secondary

and special schools. To date all 4

sub regions (Rotherham, Sheffield,

Doncaster and Barnsley) have developed

networks of enterprising teachers

sharing best practice for the benefit of

the pupils in their schools. In addition

several conferences have been facilitated

by the school to spread good practice

in enterprise education. We have also

supported other schools in delivering

Business related subjects to improve

pupils attainment.

Primary Schools

Our cluster of primary partner schools

has developed a programme of enterprise

education for their pupils. We are

currently working with them to develop

enterprise opportunities for pupils in all

partner schools.

Wales High School – The place to be!

During July 2007, 45 delegates from

DCSF, Her Majesty’s Inspector of

Schools, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Scottish Schools,

Schools from across the UK and

Business and Enterprise Colleges from

Yorkshire and Humber visited the school

to attend an event at which best practice

was shared to enhance the education of

pupils at all schools.

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At the beginning of October as part of a programme to develop creativity and literacy skills, some of the children from the Kiveton & Wales Pre-school Daycare

setting entered a competition called “My First Poem”. The children were helped to write their poem and then they dedicated it to someone special. Joanne Davis, Deputy Manager of the daycare, said “To the delight of the parents and staff most of the poems were selected for the publication in a book.” The book is called My First Poem by Yorkshire Children and will be produced in February 2008.

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Come along and see what we can offer

The launch of our new website took place on 28th November, the event was arranged to coincide with Annual General Meeting of The Kiveton Park and Wales Community Development Trust. Despite

atrocious weather the event was attended by over a hundred people.

I had great pleasure in outlining the tremendous work which has been put in by John Tanner, Tom Hill and Holly Greenhalgh. The website, despite a few problems at the

start, is now up and running and has been hailed as a unique vehicle in its field. Whilst the trio above have dealt with the technical aspects of the launch its success is undoubtedly due to the outstanding efforts made by members of the History Society.

One highlight of my evening was being asked to present Honorary Presidencies to Eddie Ashton and Lance Wilks, two stalwarts of our group. It is scant reward for the time and effort they have spent over the years exploring the history of this area and of the contribution they have made to both The Five Parish’s Group and The History Society.

My thanks must also go to all those who contributed their efforts on the night especially Ann Britton for her wonderful buffet, Brenda Bradley for her lovely confectionary and Joyce Cope whose mulled wine went down a treat.

The launch of the website is just the beginning. It is our intention that the History Society goes from strength to strength with new book launches, open days, exhibitions, and trips being organized for the forthcoming year. We are also seeking new members. Everyone is cordially invited to join our group. Our meetings take place bi-monthly at The Old Colliery Offices.

Ken ChapmanChair of the History Society

Next History Meeting: 17th January 2008, 7:30pm Special Speaker Dr. Kevin Watson from the University of Sheffield.

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short courses are held regularly throughout the year at our fully equipped, comfortable training suite, situated at the old Colliery Offices, Kiveton Park. These are at a very low cost

to yourself, thanks to Rotherham Community Learning, Adult Community Learning and Learning Skills Council. If you would like more information on any of our training courses, please contact Julie on 01909 773348.

Counselling and Interpersonal Awareness

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interpersonal skills in order to be more effective in relationships with others.

This course would benefit anyone who is responsible for building relationships with others in a formal or informal setting.

This could be voluntary work or employment such as advice centre workers, support staff or carers, and those working

with the general community.

For more information or to book your place on the

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Training at the Colliery Offices

Are you out of work? Could you do with a helping hand?

We can help you with the following:

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E-mail: julie@kpwcdt.co.uk

Training courses starting in January:Monday:Craft Course: 10.00am - 12.00pmEbay Stage 2: 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Tuesday:Digital Imaging: 9.30am - 11.30amFamily History Stage 2: 12pm - 2pmDesktop Publishing: 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Wednesday:Basic IT Stage 2: 9.00am - 11.00amebay stage 1: 2.00pm - 4.00pmDigital Imaging Stage 2: 11.30am - 1.30pmCard Craft: 2.00pm - 4.00pm

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If the above days and times are not suitable, please let us know and we can arrange another course to suit

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The Trust WE ARE HERE TO HELP

One of the main aims of the Trust is to support and foster community development. We help local groups or

individuals access funding or training, to develop their ideas or to help them with constitutional advice.

A loose definition of community enterprise is a business that uses any profit it creates for community benefit, e.g. A group of people set up a small business making and selling birthday cards. They are paid a wage but any surplus profit is donated to a local charity or used to offer free card making

training. The second option would also class as a community enterprise because it is giving community benefit by passing on skills to local people. If the profit had simply been shared between the card makers this would be a private enterprise.

If you are considering setting up a small enterprise with products you make or a service you can provide, please contact us.

A community enterprise has great benefits not available to the private sector as you can access lots of start-up support with grants and training in business development.

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Kiveton Creative:

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