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A quarterly publication of what’s happening on the Sandringham Estate in the Parishes of Castle Rising, Flitcham, Hillington, Sandringham, West Newton and Wolferton.
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Christmas
From the Rectory
If you are thinking of a charity to support this Christmas, then I always think that Crisis at Christmas is a good one to focus on.
The work of the charity is much wider than you suspect. It does the obvious thing of providing a roof over their head and hot meals for up to 2,500 homeless people over 8 days. It makes what would otherwise be a particularly depressing time for homeless people into one of comfort and cheerfulness. However, the charity also aims to look beyond the Christmas period and tries to ensure a better future for those in their care, so it provides housing and employment advice, counselling, health and dental treatment, as well as such simple things as a new pair of shoes or reading glasses.
The hope is that next year many of those homeless people will have made steps forward in their lives which will mean they do not have to come any more. No doubt there are many people who do come back year after year but the hope must always be that the care they receive for those 8 days will make a lasting change to their lives.
I wonder if we can learn something about our attitude to Christmas by thinking about the work that Crisis does. We can just look at Christmas as a fun time in the middle of winter – a time of giving and receiving presents and having rather too much to eat and drink. That is great and I would not decry anyone having a good time.
But if as Christians we are celebrating the birth of God’s son who came to live amongst us, then surely more is demanded of us. It cannot be good enough just to have a good time and then be like some of the Crisis people, turn up next year to do exactly the same. The birth of Jesus Christ demands that we look at our lives, reflect on where we are and on what can be put right and endeavour in the future to more closely align our lives with that of our Lord. We may fail or only achieve half of what we set out to do but we will be trying to do better.
Crisis at Christmas tries to have a lasting impact on those who go there. Can this Christmas have a lasting impact on us?
Best wishes for Christmas - Jonathan
S A N D R I N G H A M G R O U P o f P A R I S H E S
Page 4 Readings Contributions Note from Editor Justine Cullum
Page 5 Updates Group News Letter Thank you Jonathan Riviere Margery Hooke Sue Ward Foodbank Clare Riviere
Page 6 Parish Announcements Baptisms Weddings Funerals
Page 7 Parish Announcements Christmas Services at Sandringham
Page 8 Parish News Castle Rising Mary Robinson Sally Brett Hillington Jonathan Worsley
Page 9 Parish News Hillington Sandringham West Newton
Page 10 Parish News West Newton Wolferton
Page 11 Parish News Wolferton Page 12 Parish News Wolferton Page 13 Announcement Choose Me Not A & E NHS Emily Arbon
Page 14 Remembrance Day Castle Rising Sandringham & West Newton Primary School Page 15, 20 Village History Churches - Castle rising Justine Cullum Page 16 Feature 10th Anniversary Entertainment Evening Margery Hooke
Page 18, 19 Church Diary
I N D E X
Page 21 School News Flitcham Primary School Raquel O’Connell
Page 22 School News Sandringham & West Newton Primary School Alexis Brand
Page 23, 24 Feature The Battlefield of WW1 Jacqueline Candy
Page 25 Services Dersingham Mobile Library Services Dersingham Library
Page 26, 29 Feature Sandringham Choir Claire Stewart
Page 27 Quiz Page
Page 28 Announcement
Dersingham Christmas Concert
Page 30 Feature Mount Kilimanjaro
Page 31 Announcement Santa Dash The Norfolk Hospice
Page 32 Club News The Sunday School Bernice Allen The Wolf Folk Club Roger Young Flitcham Social Club
Page 33 Adverts
Page 34 Diary
Page 35 Directory
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7 Dec Advent 2 Isaiah 40:1-11 Mark 1:1-8
14 Dec Advent 3 Isaiah 61:1-4 & 8-11 John 1:6-8 & 19-28
21 Dec Advent 4 2 Sam 7:1-11 & 16 Luke 1:26-38
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Dec Christmas Isaiah 52:7-10 Luke 2:1-14
28 Dec Christmas 1 Isaiah 61:10-62 & 3 Luke 2:15-21
4 Jan Epiphany Isaiah 60:1-6 Mathew 2:1-12
11 Jan Epiphany 1 Genesis 1:1-5 Mark 1:4-11
18 Jan Epiphany 2 1 Sam 3:1-10 John 1:43-51
25 Jan St Paul Acts 9:1-22 Matt 19:27-end
1 Feb Septuagesima Deut 18:15-20 Mark 1:21-28
8 Feb Sexagesima Proverbs 8:1 & 22-31 John 1:1-14
15 Feb Quinquagesima 2 Kings 2:1-12 Mark 9:2-9
22 Feb Lent 1 Genesis 9:8-17 Mark 1:9-15
Note from Editor
Dear Readers
Thank you kindly for all contributions this edition and I apologise for any articles I was not able to include this time around. Here’s wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Editor - Justine Cullum
R E A D I N G S
WHY NOT Keep Family and Friends Updated
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We Thank you
U P D A T E S
THE GROUP NEWSLETTER As you know, the Group Newsletter is free of charge and is delivered to every home within the six Parishes. Much of its produc-tion costs are met by the generous dona-tions of its readers.
Donations made now in the enclosed enve-lope will help towards the 2015 costs and, in advance, I thank you for your support and encouragement. Your Newsletter Dis-tributor, the Churchwardens, The Editor, the Rector or the Group Treasurer, Dr. David Wells of, The White Cottage, 61a Manor Road, Dersingham, PE31 6LH, will grate-fully receive donations on behalf of the Sandringham Group of Parishes. Cheques should be made payable to: The Sandringham Group of Churches.
A big thank you to all who supported the harvest collection for the Foodbank, we were able to take a car full of boxes to the warehouse and some churches took it di-rectly. Both schools contributed and San-dringham Primary School had a visit from a representative who was very pleased to receive the harvest boxes they had col-lected and talked about the work they do. The donations were very much appre-ciated and Sandringham Group of Parish-es even gets a mention on Kings Lynn Foodbank website!
They are currently particularly needing: SUGAR, TINNED MEAT, JUICE, LONG LIFE MILK - but I am sure some Christmas food items would be welcomed too - many of the people they help are families so some Christmas biscuits, Minces pies, Puddings etc. would I am sure go down well with children.
Please remember they will NOT accept fresh items.
Thank you for your continued support.
Clare Riviere
Message from Jonathan I should like to thank all those who came to the Cathedral on 2 November to sup-port me during my installation as an Hon-orary Canon of Norwich Cathedral. Thank you also for those who sent cards of con-gratulations. I very much valued your sup-port and hope that those who came en-joyed the service.
THANKS Colin and I would like to say thank you to all our family and friends that witnessed our marriage blessing at West Newton church on September 7th. Special thanks to Canon Riviere, Michael Wheatley, Jean [for the wine], Hank [usher ], Fiona [cake]. Also Tony Fitzsavage for the excellent music. Wonderful weather, wonderful ser-vice and a most wonderful day.
Margery Hooke
MacMillan Coffee Morning West Newton Village Hall
On Friday 26th September a coffee morn-ing was held in aid of MacMillan. Many thanks for all the support from the village and parents and children from Sandring-ham & West Newton primary School a massive £272.25 was raised. Thank you once again. Sue Ward
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Baptisms 14th September Freja Moore, Wolferton Weddings
11th October Mark McKittrick and Abigayle Harvey, Wolferton 24th October Adrian Hicks and Helen Ducker, Sandringham Funerals
2nd September John Watts, Castle Rising 8th September Colin Fleming, Hillington 23rd September Margaret Dickinson, Sandringham 3rd October Barry Buxton, West Newton 7th November Mary Hanslip, Sandringham
P A R I S H A N N O U N C E M E N T S
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Have you visited recently?
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The Gift Shop: lots of ideas for presents, as well as Sandringham souvenirs, exclusive Royal Collection china, a wide range of books, games and puzzles, and chutneys and preserves
made in our own kitchens.
The Plant Centre: newly extended, with hundreds of indoor and outdoor plants carefully selected for seasonal colour, as well as gifts for gardeners – plus Sandringham’s famous apple juice and a range of local fresh produce.
Everything Outdoor: the newest addition to the Visitor Centre, stocking all the clothes and accessories needed by people who love the outdoor life.
Not forgetting: the Farmers’ Market on the 4th Sunday of each month and the 600 acres of walks in the beautiful surroundings of the Sandringham Country Park.
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Christmas Services at Sandringham December 21st Carol service at 11am Christmas Day 11am Mattins December 28th 11am Mattins, Preacher The Bishop of Norwich January 4th 11am Mattins, Preacher The Bishop of Manchester January 11th 11am Mattins, Preacher The Bishop of Chichester January 18th 11am Mattins, Preacher The Bishop of Salisbury [at Hillington church] January 25th 11am Mattins, Preacher The Bishop of Winchester
People from the Group of Parishes are very welcome to attend any of these services,
but please could you contact our Verger, Michael Wheatley, by the Tuesday evening so
that he has an idea of numbers and can arrange the seating. Christmas Day and the
Sunday after Christmas are always very busy and we may not be able to accommodate
everyone who wants to come but we will do our very best.
Please contact him at [email protected], or if you do not have email
by phone [his number is 07798 716574]. It becomes increasingly important that you do inform Michael if you are coming and that you arrive in good time. Otherwise there could be a danger that you will be refused entry. The Police cannot always know who is a reg-ular and who is a stranger.
Members of the congregation are also very welcome to come to the Rectory for a glass
of sherry or apple juice after the service in order to meet the visiting Bishop on the
28th December, 4th 11th and 25th January.
There will be a list in the porch and we would ask people to sign up to a Sunday that
they would like to come to the drinks. If you were able to fill in Sunday that is looking
less full that would be great. We will then have an idea of how many to expect.
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CASTLE RISING Harvest Festival The Harvest Festival at St Lawrence Castle Rising was a lovely happy occasion. Thank you to all who decorated the church so beautifully. Thanks also to the chil-dren from West Newton School who sang to us with great sweetness and enthusi-asm. They have been coming to our church over several years and are always wel-come. They were accompanied by musicians from Springwood School who played very well indeed. Finally a big thank you to all those who provided tins, packets etc. for the Food Bank.
Mary Robinson.
Charity Quiz At 7.0pm on Friday 13th February 2015 at South Wootton Village Hall ‘Soroptimist International, Kings Lynn’ are holding a charity quiz. Teams of four are welcome- Tea and Coffee will be available. Please bring your own refreshments – There will be a raffle. £5 per person. We look forward to seeing you.
Sally Brett. FLITCHAM
HILLINGTON
Bulb Planting
A group of 10 Hillington residents spent Saturday in early November planting 8000 spring bulbs alongside the A148 leading into Hillington. This is the second year-in-a-row and now an annual event as villagers look to have a promenade of daffodils for the enjoyment of visitors and residents. A Christmas party will be held for resi-dents of Hillington at Ffolkes Arms on 8th December with further details on the re-cently launched web site www.hillington.org.
Jonathan Worsley
P A R I S H N E W S
NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY
Flitcham Social Club from 7.30pm (free entry to all members)
Party the night away with friends!
Music & Buffett
Midnight Firework Display
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A Candlelight Carol Service
St Mary’s Church Hillington to be held on Sunday 14th December 6.30pm.
Playing is Kings Lynn Town Band. Serving mince pies and wine.
SANDRINGHAM Norwich Cathedral Evensong
Several parishioners from our Group of Churches travelled by coach and car to the Evensong service on Sunday 2nd November when our Rector, Jonathan, was installed as an Honorary Canon of Norwich Cathedral. It was a joyful celebration with Jonathan and his family. We hope that some parishioners may have an opportunity to see Jona-than seated in his stall at services in the Cathedral in the years ahead.
Parish Council meeting – 10th September
Sandringham Parish Council met on 10th September and received a resignation from Jean Mulligan, who has left West Newton to live elsewhere. The law required us to advertise the vacancy on the village notice boards for fourteen days, and at the end of which, as there was nobody interested to join by election, we started the process of co-opting a member. Alexander George will be formally co-opted at the next meeting on 12th November. We wish Jean well for the future, and thank her for her help and as-sistance over the past years as a Parish Councillor.
The most pressing issue was the closure of the Wolferton Post Office the following day. The village has had a post office facility, open for two hours one morning a week. Ap-parently there were just four regular users, and anyway the Post Mistress was retiring. The Parish Council has, and continues to, correspond with the Post Office, which says it is a “temporary cessation of service”. Interestingly, whenever I have spoken of its existence to residents in the village, over 90% didn’t know of it at all, and that does beg the question what the Post Office has done to promote itself, and whether it could do more trade if properly integrated with other services in the village. This is the tack that the Parish Council is taking with the Post Office.
The Parish Council welcomed its new clerk, Sheena Carman to her first solo meeting. WEST NEWTON Repairs to the bus shelter in West Newton
Work to repair the shelter should be started soon and will hopefully be finished in time for the worst of the Winter weather.
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West Newton Village Hall - Caretaker Vacancy
There is a part time vacancy for a Caretaker/Cleaner. The position requires opening and closing the hall for the hirers, moving tables and chairs and cleaning after events. Some idea of general maintenance would be helpful, but not essential. For further information and an application form please contact Sue Ward on 01485 544995. Harvest Festival
Our Harvest Festival service on 17th October was really well attended with a packed Church and the usual harvest boxes of ' goodies ' were brought by the children and, this year, were given to the food bank in King's Lynn.
Peter Rispin and I are always very grateful to all the people who help to keep our Church an churchyard clean and tidy throughout the year. The churchyard always looks good and our Church cleaners do a really good job. The flowers in the Church are also done by volunteers and many thanks to Jean Simmons for organising the flower rota and to Jane Windsor for opening the Church each day.
Hoping you all have a very happy Christmas and all good wishes for 2015.
Margery Hooke and Peter Rispin. WOLFERTON Standards of Driving in Wolferton There has been some near-misses on the road in recent months as traffic volumes in-crease as well as speeds. The Parish Council has visited all businesses in the village asking them to urge their staff to slow down (and not park on the grassed areas) and also urging them to ask their visitors to park appropriately and with due regard to the safety of others and the village environment. All the businesses were supportive.
It is now time, then, to ask residents to do likewise. Most do, some however, unneces-sarily drive or park on the Green, others are known to drive much too fast in the village. Please slow down, please drive and park responsibly.
NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY
West Newton Village Hall 8 – 1 am Celebrate New Year partying with friends
Tickets £10 Adults, £5 children (16 and under) Including disco and hog roast
Proceeds to East Anglian Air Ambulance
Contact: Sue Ward on 01485 544995 Kathy Woodhouse 01485 542266
Yvonne Browne 01485 540255
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Social Club Hosts Church Quiz Evening Wolferton Social Club was full to overflowing on the evening of 10 th October for the quiz night to raise funds for the churches in the Sandringham group. It was good for the vil-lage to be able to welcome so many visitors from other villages on the estate. The even-ing was good humoured, yet competitive, with four teams finishing within two points of each other and the prizes for the first three teams were up for grabs to the last minute. One amusing moment arose when the an-swer was given to the question “What was the name of Adam and Eve’s youngest son” and the answer delivered by the Quiz Mas-ter was not what the vicar thought it should be! So it was referred to Simon, the adjudi-cator, local lawyer and chairman of the So-cial Club, but who was going to quibble with the vicar on such a question? In the end both answers scored a point, and it was go-ing to be researched further afterwards!
This successful evening raised £551.21 for group church funds. Many thanks to everyone who helped in any way and to those who supported the even, we now look forward to the next one. The Disappearing Wolferton Bus Stop But you still have a bus to Lynn! The bus stop has been removed from the village green,
about seven years after the last bus came into the village. However, the Hunstanton Dial a Bus service runs from villages in the area that do not have public transport through to King’s Lynn every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, to provide time in town for shopping and going about your business. To use it firstly you must (by law) become a Member of West Norfolk Commu-nity Transport, this is free and is simple to do – tick the box on the form that says the rea-son for joining is rural isolation. Then once a member, you can ring in advance for the bus, which will then divert to pick you up in
Wolferton. More information is available from West Norfolk Community Transport Asso-ciation by telephoning 01553 770310 or visiting their website at www.wnct.co.uk Wolferton Post Office closed The Post Office closed after business on 11th September. This came as no surprise to those that knew of its existence, but a total surprise to those in the village that didn’t even know there was one. For more details read Sandringham Parish Council notes.
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WOLFERTON STATION Take a historical journey
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Richard Brown 01977 642 212 [email protected]
Wolferton Village Green The quality of roadside verges and village greens everywhere is deteriorating, and Wolferton Green is no exception. The damage appears to be due to a combination of vehicles, sometimes unnecessarily, overrunning the grass rather than keeping to the roadway, but also from winter gritting which increasingly is salt containing other chemi-cals, chemicals which no doubt work to keep roads safe but do impact badly on verges. The answer appears to be either to let the Green gradually recede and self-destruct (if you want to see what happens, visit Salthouse, where it got so bad that they have had to take serious remedial action. Look at the area in front of the Post Office – ten years ago that was a grass verge and now there’s hardly a blade left. The alternative is to manage
the area better, and to maintain it for the next gen-eration. Therefore, the Parish Council is working with the Estate office to put together a manage-ment plan to try to reduce the number of times ve-hicles over-run the Green.
The first part of the plan involves making arrange-ments for larger vehicles visiting Holts and we be-lieve that work will start on this soon. But every-one, yes everyone including those who live in the village, can help by not driving over or parking on the Green unnecessarily.
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Choose Me Not A&E Local NHS campaign urges patients in West Norfolk areas to ‘Choose Me Not A&E’ this winter. A high-profile campaign has been launched across West Norfolk area to help people choose the right NHS service for them.
The ‘Choose Me Not A&E’ campaign aims to provide people with vital information about which health care service is right for the symptoms they have. 3,000 local people a year attend A&E at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn (QEH), but are sent home re-quiring no treatment. This means local people wait for hours in A&E when they could have got quicker and more appropriate treatment closer to home and potentially blocking access to services for other people in more urgent need. Dr. Ian Mack, Chair of West Norfolk CCG, said: “We want people to understand that A&E is for serious, life-threatening emergencies only. Inappropriate use of A&E increases waiting times for those patients who are genuinely in need of urgent medical attention”. To make an informative decision on which service you require, see below:
1. www.MeNotAandE.co.uk 2. pick up one of the campaign leaflets at your local doctors 3. NHS 111 number
The first defence against ill health is self-care and prevention, see below:
Eat healthily – food is vital for keeping you warm.
Take some exercise – even staying active in your home makes a difference.
Wrap up warm when you go outside – layer your clothing.
Stock up on medicines – paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen decongestant and aspirin.
Get a flu jab – free for those in an eligible group.
Keep your home warm – main room 18-21C (65-70F), rest minimum 16C (61F). For more information about Warm and Well visit www.norfolk.gov.uk
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R E M E M B R A N C E D A Y
Castle Rising Remembrance Day Remembrance Day was bright and fine for the ceremony at the Castle Rising War Memorial. The army cadets attended and looked very smart indeed. The church collection raised £318.66 and this will be forwarded to Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
Mary Robinson
Sandringham & West Newton Primary School
On Monday the 10th Bill Wells and WO Laddie visited the
school for Armistice for the 6th year running for this very
special and memorable event. The children were very re-spectful for the poignant minute. And all thoroughly enjoyed meeting Laddie once again, and Laddie was very well be-
haved and typical-ly took it all in his stride.
Mr Wells and Lad-die additionally
attended a num-ber of remem-brance events
over the week.
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Churches - Castle Rising Earlier Stone Church Within the castle grounds lie the ruined remains of an early stone church. The layout comprises a nave, a central section and a chancel with an apsidal east end, typical of a parish church rather than a private chapel. Archaeological excavations carried out in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that the church was built over the remains of a timber building which appeared to be oriented on an east-west line as is normal with Christian churches. The excavations also showed evidence of human settlement on the castle site from as early as the Neolithic period.
According to Harrod the remains, of the church which had been covered in soil, were visible in1745 and were similar to ruins of an early church in the grounds of Norwich castle. They became more fully exposed in the middle of the nineteenth century when much of the earth covering them was removed. Harrod was able to examine the ruins in the early 1850s and was firmly of the view that they were of Norman origin. Taylor, who was also able to view the newly exposed ruins in 1850, was convinced that they were of late Sax-on origin. He based his conclusion on the layout and dimensions being similar to the earliest churches in England and Ireland and on the views of Salvin and Hadfield. Very recent examinations of what remains
of the interior walls of the church show that the stonework of the apsidal chancel dif-fers from the rest of the church and appear to be of a later date possibly Norman. If this is correct then the original church could have been a two cell church with a square east end similar to Saxon churches such as Escomb in Co. Durham.
The Saxon settlement at Rising, even though it was only an outlier of the Manor of Snettisham, would most probably have had a place of worship. It may have been built on the instructions of the Saxon Bishop, possibly Archbishop Stigand who held the Manor of Snettisham prior to the Norman invasion, or one of his predecessors.
The authors of the report into excavations carried out in the 1970s and 1980s were
firmly of the view that the early church had been built by the Normans. The excava-
tions had revealed the existence of a bell pit and foundry within the nave of the early
church. This had been used to cast a bell. The casting process would have been car-
ried out when the nave walls were erected but before the roof was in place. Once the
casting was successfully completed the bell pit would have been back filled and the
floor of the nave made good. The material used to fill in the bell pit could have been
no earlier than about 1100 and hence their view is that the church cont. page 20
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F E A T U R E
10th Anniversary Entertainment Evening The 14th November 2014 marked the 10th Anniversary of Bernice Allen and Simon Massen entertainment evening at West Newton village hall. The evening commenced with an introduction by our Rector Jonathan followed by Simon’s postcards slide show which was, as always, highly informative and most enjoyable. The Sunday School children gave us a touching performance of The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde. Considering they have only been in rehearsal for a few weeks it was very polished and the message was thought provoking. However, the true star of the evening was Bernice, hugely talented and entertaining her sketches are wonderful, she is a true inspiration to us all. Over the last 10 years Bernice and Simon have raised a staggering £10,000 for church funds, a truly wonderful achievement and we are all very grateful to them both as so much hard work, dedication and preparation goes into these evenings.
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Refreshments were provided afterwards by volunteers and we all gratefully tucked into an excellent supper. Many thanks to all involved, especially Bernice and Simon.
Margery Hooks
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DATES CASTLE RISING FLITCHAM HILLINGTON SANDRINGHAM
7 December Advent 2
8.00 Holy Communion
9.30 Mattins
14 December Advent 3
11.00 Mattins
6.30
Carol Service Holy Communion
15 December Monday
7.00 Carol Service
21 December Advent 4
8.00 Holy Communion
11.15 Mattins
24 December Christmas Eve
6.00
Carol Service
25 December Christmas Day
9.30 Mattins
10.00 Family Service
8.00
28 December Christmas 1
Group Services at Sandringham
Group Services at Sandringham
Group Services at Sandringham
4 January Epiphany
8.00 Holy Communion
9.30 Mattins
11 January Epiphany 1
11.00 Mattins
8.00
18 January Epiphany 2
8.00 Holy Communion
11.00 Mattins
25 January St Paul
9.15 Mattins
11.00 Family Service
1 February Septuagesima
8.00 Holy Communion
9.30 Mattins
8 February Sexagesima
11.00 Mattins
15 February Quinquagesima
8.00 Holy Communion
11.15 Mattins
22 February Lent 1
9.15
Mattins 11.00
Family Service
C H U R C H
SANDRINGHAM WEST NEWTON WOLFERTON SUNDAY SCHOOL
11.00 Mattins
3.30 Christingle
9.15
9.30 Holy Communion
4.00 Carol Service
9.15
11.00 Carol Service
8.00 Holy Communion
11.00 Mattins
11.00 Mattins
Group Services at Sandringham
8.00 Holy Communion
11.00 Mattins
9.15
8.00 Holy Communion
11.00 Mattins 3.30
Evensong 9.30
Mattins 9.15
9.15
11.00 Mattins
8.00 Holy Communion
9.15
11.00 Prize Giving
11.00 Prize Giving
11.00 Mattins
3.30 Evensong
9.30 Mattins
11.00 Mattins
11.00 Mattins
8.00 Holy Communion
9.15
D I A R Y
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cont. from page 15 dates from that period. An alternative scenario is that the bell was
cast in the ruins of an earlier possibly Saxon church.
To arrive at the latest date for the construction of the church it is helpful to consider the date for the commencement of the castle, this is generally agreed to be c1140. The typical layout for a Norman castle would have included a chapel and this is the case at Castle Rising which has a chapel within the Keep. It seems improbable that an additional place of worship would have been provided within the castle grounds. Therefore it can be argued that the early church was in place before the commence-ment of work on the castle and would have been built before 1138. That is to say be-fore or during the time when William D’Albini I was Lord of the Manor.
William had acquired substantial lands in Norfolk follow-ing his marriage to Maud Bigod, a ward of the king and daughter of a powerful East Anglian family. William’s main Norfolk holdings were not at Rising but at Old Buckenham. It is not clear why he would choose to build a church at Rising although about that time he did endow a religious house at Wymondham in Norfolk. He may have felt that his settlement at Rising should have a grander stone church as a replacement for an earlier one. Perhaps he was seeking further divine grace and favour for himself and his descendants. William D’Albini I died in 1139 and was succeeded by his son William D’Albini II. William D’Albini II made an even more advantageous marriage than his father. In 1138 he married Adeliza (sometimes called Adelaide) of Louvain, widow of Henry I,a union which brought him
enormous wealth and status. He demonstrated this status and that of his wife, the Dowager Queen, by building the castle at Rising starting sometime in the early 1140s. This would have been a massive project and taken several years to complete. Howev-er once William D’Albini II decided to build his castle on that site it would have been evident that the original church on the site was inconveniently located hence the need to build a new church outside the castle grounds.
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Flitcham Primary School What a fabulous start to our new school year and as always we have had lots to celebrate this term. At the start of the summer it was lovely to welcome all our new families to school and two new members of staff; Miss Fenton who teaches our Year 2/3 children and Miss Smith who Supports Miss Craig in Reception/Year 1.
The school term started with our annual whole school picnic at San-dringham on 12th September which the children thoroughly enjoyed and the weather was perfect.
A huge Flitcham thank you to all our families who contributed to the Harvest Festival cel-ebrations on 9th October, it was fabulous to see so many faces in church and at the Har-vest Breakfast afterwards. The generosity of our parents never fail to impress us and this year’s donations has enabled us to deliver a car load of food for King’s Lynn food bank and we raised £121.80 for Water Aid, I’m sure you agree two very worthy causes.
RNIB Read 2014 On Friday 17th October we asked everyone to get involved at school
to wear dots and raise lots to support RNIB Read. It was a fun way to raise funds but more importantly awareness of people who have no sight. The RNIB is close to our hearts as they support us as a school with reading material for a Year 5 child. During the day the children learnt all about Braille and discovered the challenges a blind child faces every day.
Year 6 children baked braille cookies and sold these on the day, in total we raised an impressive £152.90 for RNIB. Everyone had a fantastic time learning to write their name in Braille, meeting Amy and her guide dog Abba and finding their way, blindfolded, through an obstacle trail.
Years 4, 5 and 6 children were given a unique opportunity to visit London (right) recently as part of their World War 1 themed work to view the spectacular poppy display outside of the Tower of London. The children travelled by train and had a wonderful the day taking in the sites.
As part of this terms topic of Remembrance and the First World War, we will be visiting Gressenhall Museum on Thursday 13th No-vember 2014. Throughout the day children will be given the opportunity to experience different aspects of the war.
As we start the count down now to Christmas the children will be busy rehearsing for
their Christmas productions. To celebrate the end of the Autumn Term we are planning
on taking the children to see The Snow White Pantomime at the Corn Exchange; a spe-
cial treat to look forward too and a lovely end to a fantastic term full of fun and learning.
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Sandringham & West Newton Primary School
The new school year started with outdoor and adventurous activities for the whole school at Bewilderwood near Hoverton on the Norfolk Broads. It was a full day with challenges to suit all levels of ability, everyone including the adults arrived back exhausted!
On 17th September Dr Carolyn Crawford, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College and Outreach Officer at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of from Cambridge, visited school to talk to Key Stage Two about Astronomy and the Solar System. She showed some spectacular images and the children were enthralled and inspired and had lots of questions to ask.
Foundation stage pupils visited Bircham Windmill and met Little Red Hen, helping her to enact her story. They climbed the mill and learned all about grinding the wheat to make flour, and afterwards made their own bread.
Key Stage two pupils visited Norwich Cathedral (right) as part of the Diocese Schools’ week. The theme this year was “I am”. The Children joined in with other Church of England schools to explore the theme through singing, music, dance, craft
activities, discussion and prayer. The Bishop of Lynn surprised us all by singing the Bee Gees “Smile” to us all before we left!
Five pupils took part in the area cross country running event at Lynnsport. They all did very well indeed. Meg Willis (left) came first in the Year 6 girls run, win-ning a gold medal and qualifying for the next round.
All classes went to Lynnsport on 7th November for a whole day of sporting activities: hand-ball, curling, carpet
bowls, tennis, basketball. We visit Lynnsport for one day each term, and work with a PE tu-tor and students from the College of West An-glia.
The school was filled with the delicious smell of baking on 6th November (right) when Year 5 and 6 made their mini Christmas cakes. Just the beginning of our Christmas preparations! (photo) and on that note we would like to wish you all a Very Happy Christmas and New Year.
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A Weekend Visiting The Battlefields of WW1 At the end of October, I went with Leger Holidays for a four day visit to the Battlefields on The Somme. Actually, we only had two full days of the history of The Somme but it was quite enough. So much happened on every field, every wood and every town that by the Saturday night, the second day, we were all “battled out”.
A mini coach collected six of us from King’s Lynn bus station; we then swapped onto a Feeder Coach at Peterborough; collected passengers at several places before reach-ing Ashford, Kent, by midday. A short comfort stop was held, after which we boarded our coach for the rest of the trip.
Passing through the Channel Tunnel was interesting. Our coaches (several tours left Ashford for the Continent at the same time) drove onto the station platforms, parallel with the trains, weaving carefully onto the open carriage doors and into a totally en-closed carriage. The sliding door in front of our coach slid closed and we were entirely closed. It felt a bit claustrophobic and a lady at the back of the coach began to panic. Fortunately, passengers could disembark and walk on the carriage floor beside the coach, which she and several other members of our party did. The tour guide warned us the temperature would rise, which it did and the air became pretty hot. However, I became aware that we were gently ‘rocking’, not bumping and swinging about as is normal in trains. We were on our way. Not long after, so it seems, arrived in Calais and drove carefully out of the carriage back onto the French platform and away on our tour. (Returning, the coach did not get so hot and I could see a tiny round window at the base of the coach from my seat, so was aware of when we entered and left the Tunnel.)
The Hotel was in Menen (Menin in ‘old language’), a Best Western Hotel, which was excellent. We arrived about 6.30pm, unpacked and were left to our own devices for the evening.
Our first day concentrated on the Ypres Salient. The best way to describe it is to imagine a cup and saucer. Ypres is in the middle of the saucer and was being defended by the British forces. Three quarters of the outer edge of the saucer was held by the Germans and was on raised ground. We had to hold onto Ypres because it stopped the Germans reaching the ports along the Channel coast.
This was the first time armies had faced each oth-er where machine guns were used, together with artillery guns. Tactics, unfortunately, were learnt ‘on the job’ as we know and hence such devastat-ing losses of life.
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cont. from page 23 Our Tour Guide became interested in the Battlefields when he was 15 years old. His career as a police officer finished, so he turned his hobby into a new life. He quite often did not know how much history to relate as we passed villages and fields, and which bits to leave out. Every field, wood and village had a story to tell, not to mention the small cemeteries we constantly passed. Many of the smaller ones started as Advanced Treatment Stations where injured soldiers were rescued from the Battlefield itself. Here, many died of their wounds before they could get further treat-ment and so, cemeteries built up around the Stations. The same thing happened at the next stage, the slightly bigger treatment centres called Casualty Clearing Stations. Many boys died there, so spawning yet another cemetery.
We visited the largest Cemetery at Tyne Cott: very sobering. I did not get upset there though. Only two occasions did that happen: the first was when we stopped at our first cemetery when the enormity of numbers hit me; the second was the final visit for
a personal family tribute on our last morning. While the family paid their respects to a relative killed in the war, I found a grave to an Unknown Soldier from the Cheshire Regiment. I come from Cheshire – and suddenly found this chap’s headstone quite moving. What an awful way to die, in an unknown country, in such a brave manner……. Our second full day was spent around the Passchendale area, looking at villages obliterated in the war, enjoying a delicious ham and cheese baguette on a wall round a cemetery in warm, glorious sunshine, and walking round the Lochnagar Crater. The latter was a 6000lb bomb placed under a German machine gun turret which held the troops up for months. This was not the largest crater by all means, some were up to 8000lbs in explo-
sive but they are now full of water and look no more interesting than a pleasant lake! This one, being of chalk, was empty and almost stupefying in its size! We returned home through the Tunnel again, totally bamboozled with battles and trenches and tales of individual bravery, as related by many of the Old Veterans who visited The Somme in latter years. Fortunately, our Guide had befriended many of them and his tales were amazing in their casual telling by the Veterans of acts of brav-ery, many of which are totally unknown and for many, always will be….
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Sandringham Choir The August summer break for the choir seems to be a long and distant memory as the last few months have sped by at an alarming rate perpetuated by the ritual of choir prac-tices and Sunday services. In addition to this some probationers were recruited in Sep-tember from the following primary schools; Snettisham, North Wotton, South Wotton and Glebe House and in addition to their weekly rehearsals at Sandringham I have given vo-cal training each week in their own schools. There have been times each day when I have got in my car and wondered “which school today and how do I get there” but it is rewarding to work with enthusiastic probationers who have such vitality and excitement for life. So far since recruitment, the probationers have sung Choral Evensong at West Newton Church on two occasions with the choristers, some have sung on their own with-out the choristers at the Family Pet Service also at West Newton Church and on two occasions they have sung with the full choir at Matins at Sandring-ham. The choristers have been an enormous help as role models to the probationers and they currently come from the following schools; King’s Lynn Academy, Springwood High School, Smithdon High School, Glebe House and Wisbech Grammar. It has been a very exciting journey over the past weeks with the probationers and I am delighted with how they are shaping up. Considering that prior to recruitment naturally they had very limited church choral experience and they have made great headway with regular vocal training, grasping the basics of how to read and follow music, anthem rep-ertoire and the most challenging thing of all - getting to grips with the correct way to sing the psalms. In addition to that they have had to learn how to process in church, when and how to bow, watch the conductor, sing in different churches and.... look intelligent at all times especially during the sermon! It is to be hoped that the congregation will make the newcomers and their families feel welcome as they pursue their path through their time in the choir in their own individual Christian journey. Good foundations are paramount to success in all things and the op-portunities that can be gained as a chorister in developing a good sense of discipline, duty and concentration in order to achieve and give of one’s best are some of the quali-ties that they can receive in an encouraging atmosphere. cont. page 29
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cont. from page 26 The half term Singing Course which ran every day for a week’s du-ration was a great success for the probationers and choristers who were able to attend. They learned a vast amount of music, delighted the visitors at church each day by sing-ing an anthem and it also gave an opportunity for them to make friends with children from other schools which moulds them together as a team – in the morning break ses-sion when they enjoyed a snack in the garden, my patio became transformed for 20 minutes as a hopscotch pavement. Whilst the boys were eagerly eyeing up the San-dringham Cricket Club pitch!
At the start of the Michaelmas choir term new appointments were made to two of our senior choristers:
Isabella Ingrey was appointed as a Team Leader for Tallis Grace Owen was appointed as a Team Leader for Byrd
In addition to service duties the choir are often asked to sing at weddings and they par-ticularly enjoyed singing for the wedding of Abigayle and Mark Mckittrick at Wolferton Church this summer.
I should like to thank the adults of the choir for all their loyalty and commitment. Their support is invaluable and I appreciate all the time and energy in what they do to further the music in our churches.
I look forward to the season of Advent and Christmas filled with an excellent standard of music, full attendance at rehearsals, hopefully no coughs and colds, wide awake proba-tioners and choristers and a heartfelt team effort in sending our praises to the Heavenly Host.
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Mount Kilimanjaro Madness Challenge Jonathan and Hugo Worsley from Hillington, along with 30 international players, re-cently returned from Kilimanjaro where they broke the world record for playing the highest game of cricket (5,785m / 18,799ft) which has since been included in the Guinness Book of Records. The Hillington boys have helped raise over £85,000 for three charities including Can-cer Research UK, TUSK and The Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation. Jonathan and Hugo played alongside former England coach Ashley Giles, England women's captain Clare Connor OBE, vice-captain Heather Knight and South Africa’s Makhaya Ntini in a T20 match in the crater of Africa’s highest mountain. The air was freezing with breathing and running made difficult as the teams batted 10 overs each in the crater of the extinct volcano. The "Gorillas" team, led by England women's vice-captain Heather Knight, scored 82-5 to beat Giles' "Rhinos" team, who managed 64-9, the AFP news agency reports. Details of their challenge can be seen on www.mtkilimadness.com.
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