We are excited and delighted to invite applications from hardworking, customer focused and friendly people for a Supervisor and Assistants roles for the new Clayesmore coffee shop which will be opening in the Summer term.
Your day will be hands on and customer facing, working in a small team creating an environment that is warm and welcoming for all who visit the coffee shop. You will have an eye for detail and be interested in serving good coffee, good food and making people happy.
This is a great opportunity to work in hospitality with daytime shifts only, the majority of which will be worked during term time.
Closing date for applications: Monday, 11 April 2022 at 8.00am Please contact Emma Grigg on 01747 813213 if you have any further questions.
Clayesmore is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s and young people’s welfare and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Lifeguards – Full time/Part time vacancies available.
We are looking for energetic and engaging applicants to be part of a friendly team looking to refocus on the provision of providing a fun, safe and quality experience for all our customers. The successful candidates will have a passion to work in a sports environment, possess good communication skills and a commitment to providing great customer service.
In addition to lifeguard duties, you will be required to assist in various other Sports Centre duties and sporting activities. NPLQ training will be provided if necessary.
There are flexible working hours available alongside more fixed working hours ranging from early starts, middle of the day shifts to weekends and evenings.
We offer excellent facilities, resources and a warm, friendly and supportive workplace. We are committed to the wellbeing of all our staff, and promote continuous professional development in a creative and innovative environment. In addition to a generous non- contributory pension scheme and annual leave entitlement, you have use of the Sports Centre facilities free of charge in order to maintain your professional fitness when available for staff use.
For further information and to apply please go to:
Clayesmore is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s and young people’s welfare and expects all staff and volunteers to share in the commitment.
The community impact of Eunice, that Panorama documentary, and the government’s drive for rewilding – James Cossins muses on a busy few weeks.
Here at Rawston Farm we have managed to come through the week of three named storms relatively unharmed. We did lose our electricity supply for 24 hours, but with our generators at each dairy on standby we managed to continue milking our cows without too much disruption.
We lost a number of trees to the gales but fortunately they didn’t cause damage to our buildings. Our surrounding villages didn’t fare quite so well, with a loss of power for up to five days and nights with power lines being brought down by trees, and wooden power line poles breaking. It has been a challenging time for all but it has brought out the community spirit, with everyone helping neighbours out. I am sure when the wind has calmed down there will be lessons to be learnt as to the best way to cope in these situations.
March means drilling crops at Rawston – pictured here in the 1960’s image – James Cossins
A cow’s life
I am sure that many of the readers may have watched the Panorama programme portraying the life a dairy cow. As a dairy producer I was shocked at what I saw. I could not believe that humans could treat animals in this way. As was stated in the programme, most animal keepers would never treat their animals like this. We have various assurance schemes such as Red Tractor and in our personal case an Arla assurance scheme which goes into great detail on animal welfare and how to best treat animals. We have protocols on how to handle animals and how to deal with emergencies. We all occasionally have a sick animal, and by following compassionate methods you are far more likely to nurse the patient back to a full recovery than if the anlmal was maltreated.
I hope readers understand that the actions taken on the farm featured in the documentary is very much an isolated occurance. I understand that following the programme, the farm was visited by various inspectors to question their welfare practices.
Rewilding or food security?
Recently the NFU held their annual conference which this year took place in-person. One of the key speakers was George Eustace, the Minister for the Environment, and it became clear that the Government is determined to go down the road of promoting rewilding of land, and growing crops for wildlife. Whilst I agree in certain circumstances it is appropriate on less favoured land to do this, the Government seem to have forgotten about food production and this country’s food security. With what is going on in the world at the time of writing, I would have thought the government would have put more emphasis on producing our own food for this country rather than relying on imports.
Spring begins
As we move through March we will be concentrating on sowing our barley and bean crops, and applying some fertiliser to kick start the autumn crops into their spring growth.
The dairy cows are already looking over the gate, waiting patiently to be let out to graze once more. And so yet another year’s cycle begins again.
Occasionally it’s great to leave the stud so that the whole team can share in the ultimate racing dream, says Lucy Procter.
This week Last Royal, a year younger full brother to superstar racehorse Honeysuckle – and also bred by The Glanvilles Stud (TGS) – was running in a Novice Hurdle at Wincanton, so we took the staff to watch. The girls raced through morning stables, got changed and drove to the racecourse in time to join the trainer in the parade ring. Everyone was delighted to watch Last Royal dominate the field and win by a frankly astonishing 42 lengths!
The first TGS foal of 2022. Will this one be the next 42-length winner? Image by Courtenay Hitchcock
Go Romeo
Last Royal was named because his dam, First Royal, died when he was just three months old – hence he was ‘last of the Royals’. Luckily, when he was orphaned, he was just old enough to thrive without supplementary milk as he had already been eating grass, hay and hard feed so was able to join some older weaned foals without needing a foster mother. Being an orphan, he was always much loved by the girls and has always been known as Romeo at home.
Where it begins
At Wincanton, our entire team got to see the ultimate goal of what we do; winning races. Meanwhile, in Worcestershire, I was at the start of the cycle, with homebred mare, Glanvilles Guest, visiting Planteur, her chosen stallion this year. Our vet, Paul Legerton, had been scanning the mare over the previous week and had determined from her follicle size and oedema (blood thickened womb) pattern, that she was well ‘in season’, meaning that she should be receptive to the stallion, and would most likely ovulate in the next 48 hours.
The whole TGS team got to join Last Royal (‘Romeo’) in the winner’s enclosure at Wincanton this week
A hot date in the diary
With the cover (mating) booked for midday, we loaded Glanvilles Guest with her 4-week-old Scalo colt into the lorry at 9am to travel to the stallion. Mares and foals generally travel very well together, on a thick bed of straw and without a partition so they have the full double space – a stable on wheels. The mare travels tied up with a haynet to munch, and the foal is left loose, free to happily drink, wander around or lie down and sleep. The covering usually takes around 30 minutes and then we are loaded again and on the way home. The next stage is to scan for pregnancy and to make sure the mare hasn’t conceived twins and this we do at 14 days after covering. So, it’s fingers crossed that she scans in foal first time. Raising young Thoroughbreds is so dependent on the hard work of our staff and it was great to be able to share with them, Last Royal’s win at Wincanton today. At this time of year, the excitement is, that every new foal being born or conceived could be the next 42 length winner.
Working hours Mon, Wed, Thurs, and Fri 8.30am-3.45pm and Tues 8.30pm-4.30pm.
We are seeking to appoint outstanding Learning Support practitioners who are compassionate, dynamic and resourceful individuals to join our dedicated and hardworking team of skilful support staff to work across the whole school. A desired element to this role would be experience of supporting young people with Autism and moderate learning needs.
Closing/Shortlisting Date: Sunday, 3rd April Interviews: Wednesday, 6th April.
Prospective candidates are warmly invited to visit our school, this can be arranged by contacting [email protected]
Fairmead School is committed to safeguarding the school community. All job applications must contain the disclosure of any spent convictions and cautions. The school will carry out pre-employment vetting procedures, which include the successful outcome of an enhanced DBS.
Fairmead Community Special School, Mudford Road, Yeovil, Somerset BA21 4NZ
01935 421295
‘This is a Good School’ – Ofsted February 2018’
Fairmead Community Special School transforms the lives of pupils aged between 4-19 years with additional learning needs (MLD and ASD). The school works in partnership with parents/carers and other stakeholders to develop our pupils in becoming positive individuals who make a valuable contribution to their community.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the necessary skills and knowledge to ensure a consistent and effective approach to behaviour management across the school. This will include implementation and monitoring of behaviour management strategies leading to the development and provision of a variety of preventative approaches to support staff in addressing the behavioural, emotional and social needs of all pupils across a range of special needs, addressing ASD, complex learning needs and challenging behaviour.
Prospective candidates are warmly invited to visit our school, this can be arranged by contacting [email protected]
Fairmead School is committed to safeguarding the school community. All job applications must contain the disclosure of any spent convictions and cautions. The school will carry out pre-employment vetting procedures, which include the successful outcome of an enhanced DBS.
Fairmead Community Special School, Mudford Road, Yeovil, Somerset BA21 4NZ
01935 421295
‘This is a Good School’ – Ofsted February 2018’
Fairmead Community Special School transforms the lives of pupils aged between 4-19 years with additional learning needs (MLD and ASD). The school works in partnership with parents/carers and other stakeholders to develop our pupils in becoming positive individuals who make a valuable contribution to their community.
