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Flowers are our passion! Creating unique designs never fails to inspire us... It’s time to treat your Mum to something special; A hand tied bouquet, an arrangement, A planted surprise or a gift to show how much your Mum is treasured in every way. Order now for Mother’s Day on Sunday for Mothers Day on Sunday 10th March. 30th March 66 Hitchin Road, Arlesey, Beds, SG15 6SA website: www.hello-flower.co.uk Tidytime_Oct_2014_14:Layout 1 24/9/13 14:21 Page email: [email protected] tel: 01462 621507 tidytime 1 Cleaning, ironing and laundry services Wednesdays open until 7.00pm Cleaning – Domestic and offices • Weekly and fortnightly • Blitzes • End of let cleans • Sparkle cleans Ironing – £3.50 per kg – approx 4 - 5 shirts Laundry – Service wash, dry and fold – from £8, Football kits – £13.50, Duvets, pillows, curtains and more Dry Cleaning – Gents suit £9.95 Primrose Lane, Arlesey, Bedfordshire. SG15 6RD Call: 01462 732470 for more details Opening times: Tuesday/Thursday/Friday 10am - 5pm, Wednesday 10am - 7pm, Saturday - 10am - 12noon Etonbury Academy news February. Our congratulations again to all that have taken part in what has been a very enjoyable experience for all concerned. Youth Speaks Competition Latest Sports Results WE WON! Congratulations to Ella Martin, Alistair Lowe and Honor Willans for their brilliant delivery of an exceptional speech at the second round of the national Youth Speaks competition. The round was held at Northampton High School for Girls and the competition was tough this year, with teams putting forward GCSE students. The Etonbury team’s speech, Intergenerational Language, was creative, well crafted and masterfully delivered. We’re proud of You, Ella, Alistair and Honor! Willow (fedge) project On 30th and 31st January, pupils were given a once in a life opportunity to help put together Etonbury Academy’s own willow structure! We started to plant a living willow structure called a fedge, (a living hedge) around the wildlife pond by using a tool to make 30 cm deep holes to plant the willow and firm the gap with compost this took a long time and made us very cold, muddy and wet!!!!!!! We also learnt how to do a special kind of knot for tying the branches together and how to weave it to make a nice repeating pattern. We made two willow entrances in the fedge, leading to the pond which we are hoping to plant with some help from TEASEL this year. In a couple of year’s time we will have a beautiful growing willow structure. Our thanks go to Claire Bull in conjunction with Dunton Community Garden. By Emma Wigley. 8LW Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!!!! Etonbury Academy have some new hens and now we have too many eggs! We are offering our eggs to the Community for a suggested donation of £1.20 for 6. Our eggs are perfect for eating, for egg and soldiers, making cakes or cooking. Contact us on - 01462730391 to check on availability on a daily basis. Young Chef - Etonbury Final Well done to our six finalists in the Etonbury Final of the Rotatory Club Young Chef Competition. Congratulations to Millie Mason who was our final winner and to Jakye Smith who came a very close second. The standard was extremely high and very professionally presented. Millie will have enormous support when she enters the Regional Round at North Herts College–Hitchin on 15th 2 | August 2013 | Year 7 Regional 5 aside Finalists. After qualifying as one of the top 2 schools in Bedfordshire from the County round of the National 5 aside tournament in mid November, the Year 7 boys football team marched into the regional round on Friday, 17th November. Our boys played against the best school teams in East Anglia. Antonio Marra finished anything in front of goal and becoming top scorer with nine outstanding goals by the end of the tournament. This put us in second place allowing us to progress into the semi finals. The semi-final saw the boys work hard to contain a strong Queens School side. At 1-1 the game was extremely close until a wonder strike from Harry Buck-ley put the boys into the final. In the final we faced John Hampden School from High Wycombe. Etonbury started strongly, creating three certain chances, which unfortunately didn’t go in and may have changed the outcome of the match. The game changed when Lenny Pollock was brought down in front of goal and sustained a serious injury. The boys battled on to be the first team in recent Etonbury history to reach a regional final in Football. The boys are now ranked 2nd in East Anglia at their age group and can be proud of this massive achievement, having outperformed hundreds of schools. Well done to all involved including Ronnie Payton, Connor Pashley, Harry Buckley, Antonio Marra, Jake Loriot, Jonathon Fleming, Lennie Pollock and Dylan Moore. With special thanks to Mr Paul Martin who gave up his day to drive us to the University East Anglia and Mr Marra for coming along to support and (Lenny’s mum for collecting a broken, but satisfied in victory, Lenny) Yr 4 Transisition Event On Thursday 16th January the Year 4 stude