We have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Content Creator to join Clayesmore.
You will work in conjunction with academic and support staff, bringing your brilliant digital skills and knowledge to create exciting content that will inspire new parents to consider Clayesmore, build commitment and loyalty amongst our existing parent body, and support the overall growth strategy and future development of the school.
Clayesmore School is located in the village of Iwerne Minster in the shadow of the Iron Age Fort of Hambledon Hill. The breath-taking scenery isn’t really what makes working at Clayesmore a joy. What really makes the school standout is the warmth of the people and the culture and kindness that underpins everything we do.
Benefits include 30 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays) per annum, a non-contributory pension scheme, death in service benefits, a free meal each day and free membership of the Clayesmore sports facilities.
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In the company of Geoff, Keith, Tony, Tim and Binks the audience is taken on a tour of the Shadows career, with plenty of humour to make it a night out to remember. For anyone who loves the sounds of the 60’s and enjoys a few laughs on the way – Bootleg Shadows perform a unique tribute that has audiences humming the tunes and doing the Shadows famous ‘walk’ long after they have left the theatre.
Wednesday 28th June – 7.30pm, Music School, Sherborne School
The Swing Band and Junior Jazz Ensemble perform in an open-air concert featuring music by Charlie Mingus, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Cole Porter and Frank Sinatra.
Tickets £20.00 (to include a finger buffet and a glass of wine)
Social media is brilliant for keeping in touch with family and friends … but it’s also a fertile medium for the spread of disinformation. Studies have shown that false information spreads faster and further than accurate information, and is also more likely to attract attention. With an average profit of £1.5m every minute for the last 50yrs, the fossil fuel industry has been well able to spread its climate change disinformation campaign and buy all the influence needed to successfully delay political interference that might limit its activities. Governments and regulators around the world have effectively been captured, which explains the International Monetary Fund’s calculation that the industry benefits from subsidies of around £9m per minute*. In part this is through not having to pay for the deaths and damage caused by air pollution, heatwaves and other impacts of global warming.
Four days of protests Another, more subtle, form of media manipulation is to starve issues of the ‘oxygen of publicity’, as Margaret Thatcher described it. On 22nd April I joined The Big One demonstrations in London, with a huge number of people who all spent the time and expense to travel to Westminster to express their growing alarm at the disastrous inadequacy of government action on the environment. It was great to see so many people of all ages and ethnicities, including families with young children, coming together peacefully to express the growing public disquiet at our politicians’ failure to safeguard our collective future. Before the event, the media frothed with a totally bogus story about the London marathon being disrupted. It wasn’t – but in the end, the four days of demonstrations created minimal media publicity. Nothing to see here folks. Climate change will affect us all, one way or another. Cornwall and Devon still have hosepipe bans introduced last summer. Here in North Dorset a few intense storms this winter caused flooding instead of compensating for the long periods without any rain at all. At a recent Dorset Council planning consultation meeting, I was pleased to see the seriousness with which the environment is now being taken – but we are still not taking sufficient action anything like quickly enough. We simply cannot afford to ignore the urgency of the situation. Ken Huggins, North Dorset Green Party *Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits **Fossil fuel subsidies of $11m a minute
You can’t interview Charlie North-Lewis without a steady stream of name-dropping; his long and winding career is a musical tour through 40 years of popular culture.
Charlie was working at BAFTA in 2002 when he decided it was time to go back to his professional roots after long years managing major international band tours, and he began looking for a theatre job. ‘I just happened to see the advert. It said: “Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne, Dorset, is looking for a general manager.” I’m sure it said something along the lines of ‘knowledge of the area useful’ or helpful or something. And I just thought, well, I went to school in Dorset. That’ll do …’
This month the Tivoli’s theatre manager sat down with Tracie Beardsley to choose his Dorset Island Discs – highlights are in the May issue of The BV magazine here, but in this extended edition of the BV podcast you can listen to the unedited full conversation, with all the bits we had to chop out!
s someone who believes that the head of state should be elected, I will be politely declining King Charles’ invitation to swear an oath of ‘true allegiance’ to him on 6th May. It’s not that I don’t like the man. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that I have a deep respect and admiration for his commitment to the many environmental causes that he has used his position to champion and promote over several decades, long before it was considered fashionable to do so, or contentious not to. I don’t have an issue with his choice of partner, as some do, nor do I sit in judgment on the way in which other members of his family have chosen to behave, either publicly or privately. I also refuse to hold it against him that he will always be overshadowed by the example of committed public service set by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. I simply believe that if we must have a new King, he should be swearing allegiance to the people of this country and not the other way round. While the Coronation weekend provides a welcome opportunity to spend time with family, friends, neighbours and others within our communities, it is also a political event. As such, it should provide the British people with a chance to reflect on how well our political institutions are really serving us.
What still remains When the gazebos and bunting have all been folded away, we will still be in the middle of a cost of living crisis. There will still be growing wealth and social inequality, the NHS will still be in need of intensive care. We will still be dangerously unprepared for the climate crisis. A feudal display of deference to an unelected head of state changes none of these things. Rather it legitimises the persistent failure of our political institutions to govern in the interests of the majority, and masks the reality that we really need to talk about modernising our democracy. Pat Osborne, North Dorset Labour Party
Every internet ‘expert’ has an opinion on protein. Nutritional therapist Karen Geary has the facts – and why you mustn’t ignore protein as you age
I gained a few pounds over the winter, so I have turned to my favourite appetite suppressant; protein. I also want to delay frailty in older age for as long as possible, so I’m eating more in order to increase my muscle mass (and I have recently increased my resistance training for the same reason). Protein is derived from the Greek word ‘proteios’, which means primary. The 20 amino acids that make up protein are the building blocks of life. It is needed for the building and repairing of tissues such as muscles, bones, skin and hair, producing enzymes and hormones, supporting immune function and providing energy. In the internet world, there are protein zealots who like to tell you how much protein you should be eating – normally alongside a product they’re selling! There are the gym bunnies, who like to go very high, and certain segments of the longevity crowd who often advocate low to moderate*. So who is right?
How much is enough? The current recommended daily intake of protein is 0.75g per kilo of bodyweight. If you weigh 60kg, that’s about 45g of protein a day. However, this is a minimum requirement to prevent deficiency; it is not enough to support optimum health. The amount you personally need depends on various factors – age, sex, weight, height, activity, health status etc. People at risk of protein deficiency are vegans and vegetarians (who often do not consume enough protein-rich plant resources), and the elderly. To delay frailty, the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics recommends a protein intake of 1.0-1.2g per kilo of body weight to prevent muscle loss and maintain physical function; that’s 72g of protein a day using my 60kg person example. A palmful of protein for each meal should roughly get you there; perhaps Greek yogurt for breakfast, two eggs for lunch and a chicken breast for dinner. You can check your current intake using apps such as Cronometer or MyFitnessPal. Most people don’t need to worry about eating too much protein. You need to eat more than 3.7g per body kg per day before it places too much stress on healthy kidneys! Vegans need to take extra care to consume a variety of protein-rich foods. Some good combinations include beans and rice, hummus and wholemeal pita, tofu with quinoa and lentil soup with wholemeal bread. Please don’t ignore protein!
When this issue is published, the local elections on 4th May will have come and gone. Parties will have had their triumphs and disasters. Each will assail us with well-spun explanations for whatever has happened. Then, blessedly, we can put it all aside for a couple of days and celebrate the coronation of our new King and Queen. If ever there was an institution providing stability, continuity and a force for good, it is the monarchy as we now have it: leading by example, using influence not power, looking for the best in people and communities. What a strong message for politicians of every hue. Let us have less of being told what to do by an amorphous “centre”, be it local or national. Let us have less partisanship in power – fine on the stump but put it aside when you get there, eh? But let us have more exemplary behaviour, more focus on creating the positives of opportunity and fairness, more action that makes our lives happier and healthier.
A little DIY doesn’t hurt We can all play our part. Just as most of us give something to charity, even if it is only buying a lottery ticket, we all have scope for being better citizens. We can drop less litter, drive with more consideration, behave in public with more decorum and less rudeness. We could use social media with more courtesy. There are any number of things we could do to make the lives of others around us that little bit happier. There is plenty of scope, too, for taking more active steps to contribute: become a Water Guardian (regular local checking of water quality), join a litter pick or environmental group, become a school reading helper, join the Royal Voluntary Service as a community volunteer, do some voluntary driving. The list is endless. Take a look at The Big Help Out and see the range of possibilities. It is not only the job of those we elect to make our lives better – we all have a role. But when it comes to public services, government has to be the prime mover and be held accountable. Take the NHS, dentistry and sewage. How can government fail to act when a vital organisation like the NHS gets into difficulty? It is under-performing against most measures, has very poor employee relations and no thought-through, long-term manpower plan. How can government have allowed ‘dentist deserts’ to proliferate in the way they have? How can we have frittered away – into private pockets – all that money we have paid for water over so many years and still have raw sewage in our rivers? But, with our eyes lifted up and our national confidence restored, we could soon put a stop to nurses being cowed and coerced. We could all show off our great teeth while happily wild swimming. Why not? Spring is in the air. Change is in the air. Mike Chapman, North Dorset Liberal Democrats
