COMMUNITY RANGERS-WHAT A JOB!

The Rangers check the safety of equipment on local park.

BY LIONA AND SIANA Do you want to be a com-munity ranger?

As a community ranger you have to wear a spe-cial uniform to show you are a ranger, which is rep-

resenting your school as outstanding. As a ranger you will have to work with different peo-ple, also you can make friends with other people such as other youngster and adult rangers. You can help the environ-ment a lot by doing things like: litter picking; going to help different people in different places; learning about jobs in the area and lots, lots more. To be a community ranger you have a lot of responsibility. That is why you are interviewed and specially chosen.

ORIGIN OF COMMUNITY RANGERS

BY IBRAIMA

Blue Bell Hill Primary

School led the way for the

community ranger pro-

gramme sponsored by

Experian. Experian

funded the smart, stylish

uniforms that the rangers

wear when on duty. Fund-

ing also came from „The

Safer, Stronger Commu-

nities‟ team of Nottingham

City Council. The projects

aim was to give children a

sense of responsibility

and respect for the com-

munity in which they live.

The rangers have been

so successful that other

local schools have be-

come involved. The Com-

munity Rangers are really

trying to make St Ann‟s a

nicer, safer place to live.

RANGER TRAINING

BY LIONA It is not easy to become a Community ranger you have to do lots of training. You need to be commit-ted to the responsibility required of you to care for our by going out to lo-cal parks and areas as-sessing possible danger hazards for the elderly, disabled people and chil-dren who may be at risk from infection from dog dirt which is not picked up by owners went out walk-ing, discarded litter, bro-ken glass, used needles,

amongst many other re-sponsibilities. You need to be aware of buildings de-faced by graffiti and be prepared to report to the relevant authorities any-thing you feel is not right in your area. It is of vital importance for

a community ranger to be

an excellent role model of

the community in which

they live.

Turn to Page 8 to read

about all the things that

happen in our school.

Turn to Page 5 to find

out who Matt is.

Rangers receiving their instructions for the ward walk.

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Thursday 27th January 2011

INTERVIEWING STEVE

Why did you want to be a ranger? I was ready for a change in ca-reer and wanted to do some-thing different. How long have you been work-ing? I have been a park ranger since September 2007. How does it feel to be a ranger? When did you start training? My training started the day I started as a park ranger and I learn new things almost every day! How did it feel at first? It was a difficult job at first as many people I met out in the parks were frustrated about a lot of issues in the parks. I’d like to think that things have im-proved since the introduction of the park ranger service. Do you do any other jobs?

I am a Community Governor of

Blue Bell Hill School which

keeps me busy and I hope to

do some volunteering soon at

one of my Local Nature Re-

serves.

How many parks have you been to since you were a com-munity park ranger? Over 20% of Nottingham’s land area is parks and open spaces and I’ve probably visited most of these areas. What other job might you like to do? It might be interesting to be a park designer so that I can cre-ate great places for children to play in. When you were 10, what did you think you would do for your job? Like most boys I wanted to be a footballer. I still go to the park but for a different reason! What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? I really enjoy playing with my baby and spending time with my family.

Thanks Steve for answer-ing all of our questions. We

love you!

PARKS AND PLANTING PAGE

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STEVE SHOWS STUDENTS HOW TO BE A RANGER

Steve points out what to do.

BY ANGEL We are Community Park Rangers and we help park ranger Steve .It is an important job looking after

our neighbourhood. Park Ranger Steve is tak-ing us to King Edwards Park, which is in our area. On our walk Steve

pointed out different things for us: the different kinds of birds; the verity of shops and the stylish cars. When we get there Steve gives us a list of problems to sort out. For example: the fencing around the park; the car park and the children‟s play area. We make notes and tick our jobs sheet, so Steve will know what jobs need to be done. The park ranger also comes to school and plants bulbs with us. The flowers we plant are blue bells for Blue Bell Hill, as they can represent the school. We also plant

bulbs in parks like Mar-

mion Park. In parks we plant daffodils as they look pretty in parks. In the school we plant them on the drive way as on the drive way you can see them. We do it nearly every year.

The children are doing the activities to help park ranger Steve.

KING EDWARD PARK

BY ANGEL AND DANI King Edward Park is a good place to play be-cause it has lots of wild-life and lots of children's play areas like swings, see-saw and a pitch to play football. In King Ed-ward Park you can do exercise as they have a big space to run around in. Now king Edward Park is refurbishing the old bowl-ing pavilion so people can feel better. At King Ed-

ward park, park rangers come to see what jobs need doing and that‟s how they help. King Ed-ward park can also be used for school lessons. The Blue Bell Hill Com-munity Rangers recently visited the park to do a site inspection lesson and some orienteering. The rangers also help other parks like Marmion but king Edward the most as it has more things to sort out.

A picture of King Edward Park

TRY THIS DOGGIE PUZZLE If there are 196 legs and 126 eyes at a dog show, how many peo-ple and how many dogs are present? (All the people and all the dogs at the show have the normal number of eyes and legs.)

There are 28 people and 35 dogs. First, since dogs and people both have 2 eyes, divide 126 by 2. There are 63 at the dog show. You know that dogs have two more legs than humans. There are 70 more legs than eyes. Half of 70 is 35. Subtract 63-35=28. So there could be 35 dogs and 28 people. (or 28 dogs and 35 people) To check if there are 35 dogs, multiply 4x35=140 then add 28x2=56 for the number of human legs. 140+56=196.

OUR COUNCILLOR

Our councillor is Mr Liversidge. He visited our school recently

and presented lots of prizes. He also attended our school dinner

launch.

Here is some more information about him:

Councillor Dave Liversidge St Ann's Ward and Portfolio Holder for Housing Delivery. As one of your Local Council-lors it is my job to take account of your views. I need your feed-back to help make informed democratic decisions about issues which affect everyone. Ward: St Ann's Ward Party: Labour Telephone:0115 915 5624 07507 650101 Address: 181 Windmill Lane Nottingham NG3 2BH

Date elected to Nottingham City

Council: May 1991

Previous Occupation: Factory

Planning Office

COUNCIL HOUSE PAGE

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WHAT’S INSIDE THE COUNCIL HOUSE?

Councillor Liversidge showed us around the Council House.

BY PARADIS AND KEANY On Thursday 4 November at 1pm, we went to the Council House. When we went in we met Mr Liver-sidge, he showed us into a room that hade tall red chairs and a chair that looked like a throne, it hade crest on and we were allowed to sit on it.

This is the lord mayor‟s chair. We went in to the cham-ber and saw how it was used and set up. We took notes for our work back at our school. It was very interesting we found out that Mr Herot designed part of the building. Some pants of 83 years old.

The sheriff is a woman and her name is Jane Todd, her children came to Blue Bell Hill School. We went to the mayors office it was small but comfortable, we saw a note pad with writing in it

we had a little look. We realized that the windows had patterns and draw-

ings on and it was very beautiful. Then we sat on the sofas they were very comfortable and mostly red some hade little red diamonds on. There is an important room in the Council House that is very special this is where the

Mayor can sleep, but if the Queen comes he has to give it all up.

Children look down at the patterned floor.

A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR US

BY KEANY In December, Nottingham City Council gave the residents of St Ann‟s a very special Christmas treat - For the first time they had a tree to call their own! The children from local schools were invited to decorate the tree with their wishes for the community. The occasion was made

extra special when John

Collins, leader of Notting-

ham City Council, turned

on the lights. Children

from the St Ann‟s family

of schools joined together

with Santa, The Notting-

ham Ice Arena‟s Ice Bear,

Local Community Lead-

ers, Police Representa-

tives and residents for a Nic Williams decorating St Ann’s Christmas tree.

The Nottingham Council House is 83 years old. Did you know that there is seaweed behind the walls? If the Queen comes she uses the Sheriff‟s room as a relaxation room, there is

also a posh toilet that she can use. The names of the rooms are the chamber, The Queens Room, The Sher-iffs Room, The Bull Room, The Mayor Room. In the council house there is a photo of 1 hundred of

people that are different ages from 1 to a 100. There is a statue of Ma-hatma Ghandi who is the person who fought and won the fight to make In-dia an independent coun-try

sing song round the tree.

The evening came to an

end with a firework ex-

travaganza that could be

seen and heard for miles.

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE COUNCIL HOUSE

YEAR 5 VISIT THE POLICE STATION

Pupils turn into police!!

BY MAURO AND LYDIA On Thursday 20th Janu-ary 2011, some yr 5s went for a tour of St.Anns police station as part of their community rangers training. The first person they met was a lady called Val who is a com-munity support officer. She worked in the recep-tion and seemed to know everybody in the station who worked in the station and lots about the build-ing as well. Between 50 and 60 people work at the station (not all the time). The person who is in charge of the whole sta-tion is called inspector priest (unfortunately he

was in an important meet-ing when we visited). Criminals are not held at the St.Anns‟ police station but there is a room for in-terviews. The station has no cells at all conse-quently criminals that need to be put in a cell are transported to Bridewell Holding Suite (in the city).

We met some P.C.S.O‟s like Dan and Michelle (police community sup-

port officer) P.C.S.O‟s are very helpful as they walk to places with us to pro-tect us, and help us cross busy roads. They some-times join us in class and support us with our work, attend assemblies and have been to Castleton with us and stayed with us on camp.

The emergency number for the public is 999. If there is anything that isn‟t an emergency but you still need the police dial 03003009999 (please re-member though if there is a serious emergency call 999!!!) It was a great experience visiting the police station and we learnt a fantastic amount of information. You never know one day one of our rangers maybe doing Val‟s job!

Children find out how it is to be locked up.

Wiktor and Najma new recruits!

TRY TO SOLVE THIS AMAZING SUDOKU PUZZLE

FIGURE OUT THIS CONFUSING MAZE

know also shown the way round the station. She is also a p.c.s.o, further-more, when all of our school has a trip out she always comes with us to protect us and to keep us out of trouble. 5, After all, we finally met a p.c.s.o who is called Dan. We previously know him like Michelle and he also comes to trips with us and protects us.

The officers at the police

station were extremely

friendly….. You never

know we might go again

some day!!!

BY LYDIA 1, First off we met a lady called Val who is a com-munity support officer who worked in the recep-tion for the public queries. 2, Secondly, we met an anti social behaviour offi-cer who deals with badly behaved pupils and adults. His name was called Ben and he worked in an office full of docu-ments. 3, subsequently, we also met a lady called Natalie who is a police commu-nity officer and leaded us around the station and introduced us to some of the members of the sta-tion. 4, after that, a lady called Michelle who we already

5 FRIENDLY PEOPLE WE MET

Experts on the loose!

COMMUNITY POLICING PAGE

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MEET MARVELLOUS MATT!

Matt Bradbury Sports Development Officer visits Year 5

BY KYRA On Wednesday 19 Janu-ary Matt from the National Ice Centre came to our school to talk to us about his job. Matt is a Sports Development Officer. A Sports Development Offi-cer is someone that en-courages young to get involved in sport. He told us that he worked at the National Ice Centre for 10 years (he started skating

27 years ago as a public skater). He went on to

play for Nottingham Jun-ior Hockey team in 1991 he played 2 seasons for the panthers unfortunately he had to stop playing ice hockey, because he got injured. After Matt‟s hockey career ended he became a coach. He coached for England taking teams to Torino in 2007 and Harbin, China in 2009. He continues to coach the Nottingham under 18s ice hockey team.

The National Ice Arena was built on the site of the old ice stadium (known as the barn). They built the ice centre in the middle of Nottingham so it was easy people to get to us-ing public transport. Matt told us about all the activities that are avail-able at the ice arena, par-ent and toddler lessons, disabled lessons, skate UK, public sessions, disco skate.

Matt Bradbury smiling for the camera

EXTRAORDINARY EXTRA SKATE

BY LAVELLE Wednesday is Extra

Skate night, when chil-

dren from Years 5 and 6

get the opportunity for an

additional skating ses-

sion. The music is loud,

the lights are dazzling and

the skating is fast. Most

of the children have been

skating for over 3 years

and you can tell. Some of

the boys have been skat-

ing off against some of

the older members of the

public and have been do-

ing a good job. It is a

very fashionable event -

we even have a tutu

model who is attracting a

lot of attention. We need

to say a big thank-you to

John for driving us there

each week and to all the

coaches who help us im-

prove.

The National Ice Centre at night.

THE SCHOOL OF ICE

BY KYRA Thirty Nottingham families have been inspired to take up ice skating thanks to a unique project at the National Ice Centre. The families, whose chil-dren all attended Blue Bell Hill School of Ice in St Anns, have been tak-ing part in the Family Skate Plus project at the NIC. Now to recognise all their hard work the scheme has been awarded the prestigious London 2012 Inspire mark. This is the badge of the London 2012 Inspire pro-gramme which recognises exceptional and innova-tive projects inspired by the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Family Skate Plus Scheme is the first of it‟s kind in the country and sees the participants re-ceiving one to one and group ice skating tuition the likes of which is not available on any other skating programme. Matt Bradbury, Sports De-velopment Officer at the NIC said: “By learning these new skills the fami-lies are moving out of their comfort zones and becoming healthier, im-proving their fitness lev-els, developing new social skills and gaining in confi-dence. These are the qualities which have been recognised by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralym-pic Games.”

THE SCHOOL OF ICE PAGE

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ALL FIRED UP! - WITH THE PANTHERS

The Panthers and the Fire Service come to our school

BY EMIAN This is a programme where the GMB Notting-ham Panthers work with the local fire fighters to promote the work that the fire service do. As part of the incentive initiative the teams come together at different schools across the area during assemblies they do

different activities and games such as who can put the gear on the fast-est, see who can shoot the most pucks in the net and which team can get the loudest cheer. Some children were lucky enough to go and see the fire engine –one or even got a bit wet! The event finished with a hockey competition in the hall.

They talked to us about the importance of having 2 alarms in your house 1 up stairs and the other alarm down stairs. Also they told us about being careful around fire. Here are some things we learned:

Never call a false alarm because you will be wasting there time.

Also, if there is a real emergency no one will be able to attend.

NEVER MESS WITH FIRE WORKS.

We had a great morning with the fire service and the GMB Panthers. We hope that other schools embrace the all fired up programme!

BY CALLUM On November the 4

th the

Nottingham Fire Service came to Blue Bell Hill to deliver a special firework assembly. It nearly didn‟t happen because just as they were about to start they were called off to an emergency. It was quite exciting to hear the sirens zooming down the drive! Eventually they returned and told all the children about how to be safe and have fun with fireworks. We learnt how to hold sparklers, and what they safe ways are to enjoy

fireworks. A lot of the chil-dren were excited about going to the display at the Forest Recreation Ground (on the Friday night). The children in our Foun-

dation Unit were then

lucky enough to go and

visit the fire engine and

look all around it at the

dif ferent equipment.

Some were even able to

get in the driver‟s seat! It

was a really enjoyable

morning with a very im-

portant message.

AN ASSEMBLY THAT I ENJOYED

BY CALLUM What I liked about the as-sembly was when we went out side and some people got chosen to squirt the water from the fire engine. I wasn‟t one of the people who got chosen to squirt the wa-ter, but I still enjoyed it. The jet of water squirted out so fast I couldn‟t be-lieve it! It needs to be really fast and powerful because it needs to put out fires. If it was slow it wouldn‟t be effective in putting out fires. In Assembly my teacher said `put your hand up if

you have a question‟. Some people put their hands up and asked a number of different ques-tions that they were inter-ested in. There were two fire-fighters who an-swered the questions. They were both men but you don‟t need to be a man to be a fire-fighter; women can do the job just as well as men. The Assembly was held in the morning in my school. If you would like the fire-fighters to come to your school call Mr Williams at Blue Bell Hill school and he will help you find out how to organise it.

FIREWORK WARNINGS

Trying on uniforms in front of the school.

Its best to enjoy fireworks at an organised place.

What do you get when you cross a dinosaur with fire works? Answer Dinomite! Why can‟t Nottingham have an annual Christmas nativity? Answer because they can’t find 3 wise men What do Nottingham panthers and Titanic have in common? Answer They both finished when they hit the ice! What the difference be-tween the panthers and a cigarette machine? Answer the cigarette machine has players!

HA HA HA!!

ALL FIRED UP PAGE

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COMMUNITY RANGERS

The children of Blue Bell Hill carrying out a Ward Walk.

BY TIARNA On the 22nd of November 2011 the year six‟s Com-munity Rangers went on a Ward Walk. There were lots of people on the walk: Jon Collins leader of Not-tingham city council, rep-resentatives from city homes, the fire service, Police and Neighbour Hood area mangers. During the Ward Walk the group looked at things that needed improving and things that looked nice. Many of the houses had made lots of effort with their gardens, most had been decorated with: pretty colourful flowers, hanging in baskets, (made by the children of Blue Bell). However some homes did not look so

this out and cleaners were sent to deal with it. The local park was in-cluded in the walk. Here the group looked at play equipment and made sure there was no graffiti, or dangerous items. A list was made of jobs that needed to be done after the ward walk. When the walk finished Dorothy (neighbour hood area manager) asked the rangers what they would wish for the community. They all said they would like lights for the heart beat play area so they could play out longer ur-ing the winter. Dorothy told them she would look into it.

good: they had large items of rubbish in their gardens. Some of the fences were broken and danger-ous .Litter and dog mess was also visible on the walk. The rangers pointed

The children were reading the ward walk.

The children checking the play equipment at the local part

BY ARIANNA A few years ago it was the dream of the children and parents around out school to have a safe place for children to play. With the help of Experian, the dream became a real-ity on the 20

th May 2009,

when the Heartbeat play area opened on our school. Previously the bottom playground had

HAPPY HEARTBEAT - THANK YOU EXPERIAN

been an uninviting, un-even place to play, where the football rolled off down the hill every time it was kicked. Now we have a fabulous place to play, with two f o o t b a l l / b a s k e t b a l l pitches marked out and a special all weather pitch. The area is open to all the children in the commun i t y on a

Wednesday night after school (it is called Stay and Play). The Heartbeat has made such a differ-ence to us – we are all really grateful to Experian. The thing we are trying to

do next is to raise the

money so we are able to

floodlight the area and

keep it open for longer.

Any donations welcome!

OUR PHOTO GALLERY

The children were at the police station

The children are looking at rubbish

WARD WALK PAGE

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BRILLIANT BITS OF BLUE BELL

Year five and six playing urban hockey !

BY TAYLOR & AREEBA On Wednesday 8

th Janu-

ary some children from year five and six went to a hockey tournament. We did so well we won. Our team was awarded a cer-tificate a medal each and a trophy. Blue Bell Hill Pri-mary School competed against three different Schools there names were: Highbank Primary School; Carlton Central Junior School and Heath-field Primary School.

Every year we go to watch a pantomime and we always have fun! This year we went to watch Mother Goose; it was absolutely hilarious especially when they throw pies at each other! All of us loved the act of the insects although it

was completely random. Every week at Blue Bell

Hill Primary School we have after school club, Monday- Thursday. The things that we do are mul-tisports with Tom Norten, cheerleading, cooking, dance, guitar, eco team, stay „n‟ play and much more. Loads of children take part and the best bit

is- they are free! On healthy school dinners week the Lord mayor came to Blue Bell Hill Pri-mary School for his lunch. Also one of the Panthers players came and Paws (Panthers mascot) came too. At Blue Bell we are really lucky as we get free tick-ets to the panthers match as we are the school of ice. Also we get ice skat-ing lessons for a low price. Our children are coached by Olympic skat-ers. Each half term a year gets there turn to take there skating lessons. All of us to watch perform-ances performed by speed skaters and figure skaters. We love it at Blue Bell Hill Primary School, we say it‟s the best school ever!

Lord mayor eating his lunch at Blue Bell

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT CASTLETON?

Children and staff enjoying their visit at Castleton

BY TAYLOR, WIKTOR, AREEBA AND BEN Children from Year 2 to Year 6 are given the amazing opportunity to visit Castleton in Derby-shire for 3 days. This year we went in Decem-ber which was really spe-cial because there was a little bit of snow and it felt really like Christmas. We did lots of exciting things such as: going down a cave on a boat, walking a getting VERY, VERY muddy, tuneful karaoke and panning for gold and gems. Everyone has loads of fun and definitely not much sleep. With the

amount of tooth paste that was found we were sure that everyone‟s teeth were really clean! The same can‟t be said about the clothes after we had been on the muddy walk. Some children had so much mud inside their wellies they were stuck on their feet. All the staff enjoy the op-

portunity to give the chil-

dren an experience which

is nothing like they can

get in school. It has be-

come a tradition of our

school that we hope to

continue for many years

to come!

BY TAYLOR & AREEBA Monday 20

th December

2010, Blue Bell Hill Pri-mary School went on a trip to the outdoor ice rink. Year one had little plastic penguins to hold on to, so they will not fall over. A few of the teachers were on the ice skating with the children, and were all having a wonderful time. These are some of the opinions on the outdoor ice rink :

Areeba said: ”I did it last year and I’m definitely getting better” Wiktor said: ”I learnt to skate, it was my first time!” Emian said: ”It was great and it was great to see how my friends skate.” Lavelle said: ”It’s wicked because it gives people the opportunity to skate!“ Taylor said: “It was amaz-ing I would go again if I get the chance to.”

BLUE BELL OUT ON THE ICE

This is when we went to the ice rink.

WHAT’S ON

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