Tuesday, 3rd April, 2014 – Frank Wise School – Jill Head
Jill, for twenty years school nurse and currently chair of the Friends of the school, gave an interesting, inspiring and sometimes moving talk about the school, which is our charity for the year. The Frank Wise School, is a community school for children with special needs, between the ages of 2 to 19 years, described by Ofsted as “Outstanding and inspirational”. Beginning at Wood Green House with 30 pupils, the school has now been running for 50 years, currently catering for 107 children and young people. All classes spend some time in a main stream school each week, which also benefits children in those schools. Children take part in residential visits, sometimes abroad. Much is done with older pupils to give them life skills such as shopping and meal preparation. Some pupils are able to move on to college in Banbury and some to live in supported small groups. Jill described some of the recent projects achieved through fund-raising and explained the current one. The school plans to broaden the scope of the drama room by installing new technology, which could, for instance, provide virtual reality settings to stimulate pupils. Jill thanked members again for the opportunity to speak to them and concluded by saying “Our children can teach us a lot”. The president gave the vote of...
Read MoreAGM February 2014
Annual Report presented by Janet and accepted by the members. If you would like to read this report just follow the link on the top of the screen. Pauline presented the audited accounts, which were accepted by members. New Committee selected and Caroline agreed to be President for a second year.
Read MoreChristmas Party – December 5th 2013
We were virtually a full house for our December meeting and Christmas party, when our members were treated to a delicious supper provided by Carrol and the Catering Team, followed by a raffle. To finish off the evening we were entertained by The Shunters who performed a selection of folk, traditional and well known...
Read MoreSunday 24th November – Jambusters, History of the WI during WWII
As part of Adderbury’s 2013 Literary Festival, a group of the WI prepared and served tea and cakes at the talk given by Julie Summers. It went down a...
Read More7th November, 2013 – Four Shires Magazine by Jeremy Wilson
Jeremy explained to members what is involved in putting the magazine together. He described his career as a photographer who travelled around taking pictures for the local paper, being taken on by Express Newspaper Group, travelling round Europe before finally settling back in Banbury. He set up an office in his front room, borrowed money and began producing a magazine called ‘Banbury Fair’. This name was later changed to ‘Four Shires’. The magazine aims to cover all that is best in the area. The aim is to provide a good balance of stories to adverts. Circulation varies from month to month but on average 5000 copies are sold. There are now 3 full time staff and 6 or 7 regular freelancers and 3 or 4 contributors involved in the production. Jeremy ended the evening by taking photographs of members showing their copies of the latest magazine. ...
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