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Elliotts like to get involved with community and charity projects in the local area. Recent projects include:
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School Force sponsored by |
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Congratulations to Fairisle Junior School who won the School Force Make Over. The prize is landscaping materials to the value of £2,000 ... and to provide the landscape professionals to do the work.
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The children in Year 4 at the school incorporated the entry as part of a school project, motivated by the need to make their environmental area accessible by all.
At present they have a fabulous environmental area, complete with a pond, which is used for studying plants, birds, insects and other wildlife. However, with narrow uneven paths, long grass and stinging nettles it was inaccessible to the disabled pupils. The children felt that, although this was a lovely place to be, they would prefer not to get stung and also thought it unfair that their disabled friends should be excluded from enjoying this space. |
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Extracts from the children's letters
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Dear Radio Hampshire
We are writing to tell you about how we need slabs for paths for our environmental area.
We need these for our disabled children to get around there easier. In addition, it will make it look nice for the school. We found out about this competition on the radio and are pleased to enter it to make our environmental area a better place for the children to go and study in there without getting hurt or stung. Our school is Fairisle Junior School and it is the best in Southampton. However, it is a real shame that the environmental area is not really accessible for all the children to study insects, the pond or plants in. There needs to be an improvement so that we can all learn safely MB
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Dear radio Hampshire
We entered this competition so we can use the tiles for disabled children will be able to go into the garden and without the grass being to long we will really appreciate if you give Fairisle junior school the makeover on our environmental area.
The area has very long grass fore mini beasts , a pond to find things about under water animals like fish and newts and other animals , three benches, an oak tree to find out things about birds and squirrels and other animals and a dipping platform ......
.....I really hope you can help us make our wild life area more accessible for all our children.
Thank you for reading my letter
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Dear Radio Hampshire and Elliots
Year 4 at Fairisle Junior School would like to enter your compaction to win a garden make over.
Our garden – or environmental area needs to have a path for the disabled children to pass, like a wheel chair.
Our Path is really narrow and stinging netals cover the grass. The grass has recently been cut, but the stinging netals are still there.......
....We study our plants and our pond life in our garden so we would like to be as enjoyable as possible.
Our pond is connected to a dipping board where we sit and study wild life and our water creatures.
Our Mini Beasts live in that long grass so we would like to sit on concrete and watch the mini beasts play and climb up the long stands of grass. Could we also have some benches to so sometimes if we are good we will might be able to eat our lunch outside. AC |
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To Elliots and Radio Hampshire
I am writing to you because we would like are school to have some paving slabs over near our pond and our environmental study centre and let the wild insect go into the long grass and hide behind the long grass.
We want some paving slabs so that our disabled children can go over to our area and see the lovely, pretty views in our school.
I heard about the competition on the radio.The school that we are in is Fairisle Junior School.
In the area it is very pretty, quiet and very lovely when the trees are blowing.
It is very lovely when the mini beasts are hiding in the big, long grass and the beautiful insects are flying in the blue, fresh air.We need the pond to study pond life. We need the trees to study birds.We need grounds for wild flowers.
So we need the paving slabs to be suitable for the wheel chairs to go over so we do not want the paving slabs to be bumpy.
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Dear Radio Hampshire.
We would like to have paths in our pond area because it will look neat and it is easy and safe for our disabled children to travel round the pond and through the area. The school heard about the competition and decided to enter not to get competitive but so the children in our school could visit the pond area more. Our school is called Fairisle Junior School and we would appreciate it if we could win.
At the moment our study area is vast and looks untidy because it has a lot of long grass. This is very good because it is full of wild life and trees. When we visit the pond area it is usually for wild life, In the pond we have
pond skaters,
newts ,
frogs ,
frogs born and
tadpoles.
If we need to study pond life we would go there and if we need study birds we would also go there. The grass has many wild flowers and they look very pretty.
We hope you will choose us because it would be a pleasure to have our environmental area improved. LS
Project Room at Fairisle Junior School
Site Diary
DAY 1 - Monday 11th August
DAY 2 - Tuesday 12th August
DAY 3 - Wednesday 13th August
The Finished Article
We couldn't have carried out this project without the support of our suppliers and in particular we'd like to thank the following:
Woodbridge who supplied the timber
Aggregate Industries - slabs, bark and ballast
Biffa - skip
Wrekin - weed control membrane
Fore-wood
Spax (ABC) - screws
Simpson Strong-Tie - brackets
Spear and Jackson - forks and shovels
Sallco - saw blades and other accessories
and last but not least Patrick Monger of Abbey Landscape Management. Patrick was our Project Manager on site and we really couldn't have done this without him.
Grand Opening
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Friday 5th September saw the Grand Opening of the garden and the reveal to the children. Hampshire cricketer Billy Taylor and retired Saints footballer Mark Dennis performed the official opening and cut the ribbon. Unfortunately it was rather wet on the day, but it didn't dampen the children's natural exuberance |
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The Great South Run 2008 |
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Registered Charity Number 1088746 |
The Great South Run took place on Sunday 26th October over 10 miles across Portsmouth. Elliotts had a team of 9 staff taking part on behalf of the 'Simon Says charity'.
Elliotts staff who ran were as follows:
Lauren Haines, Helen Burden, Daniel Coombes, Marilyn Dyke, Genna Gale, Lisa Gibbins,
John Griffin, Phil Marlow and Lynn Ward
When someone close dies, children may not have the words to talk about their feelings. They may feel Angry - Guilty - Frightened - Alone. Simon Says is a charity that provides support for bereaved children and their families and strives to help answer questions such as How to tell the children?, Who should tell them and when? How much will they understand? What can I do with them to help them understand?
For more information on Simon Says visit their website
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