Christmas is here !

Top Valley Dance Academy Santa Parade

The TVDA were out performing again at the launch of Broadmarsh's Christmas shopping season. The Academy did a fantastic job of leading Santa and his reindeer to the secret forest grotto within the shopping centre by putting together a dancing display of snowball fighting and christmas joy to the sounds of Mariah Carey.

The Academy then did a short performance of one of their faviourites, Footloose (for those that remember that was the film with Kevin Bacon from the 80's!) and wowed the crowds with their energy before waving goodbye and leaving Santa to make some wishes come true.

They will next be performing at an evening of Dance at Top Valley School and Engineering College on Wednesday 19th December.

Out of School Provision

What's On Locally

All schools within the Top Valley Extended Schools Partnership have now completed their out of school audits detailing what clubs and activities are available from 8:00am to 9:00am and from 3:30pm to 6:00pm. For more information about what is available please contact me via email at tvesc@hotmail.com.

As well as schools offering out of school activities there are also many other groups within the area offering a wide range of activities to children and young people. Top Valley, Bestwood Estate, Bestwood Park and Rise Park community centres have ongoing activities available. These tend to change quite frequently and so for an up to date list of 'whats on' you should contact the Community Centre direct. Numbers can be found at the following web address http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/services/community_and_living/neighbourhood_support/community_centres.htm.

There is also an active Scouting and Guiding presence within the area. To find out more about Scouts visit http://www.souts.org.uk/ or call 0115 0523617 or for Guiding visit http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/.


As well as all the above we also have Southglade Leisure Centre which offers a wide range of sporting activities. Southglade Leisure Centre is one of the city’s finest leisure facilities complete with two pools, an 80m flume, café, sports hall, activity studio, fitness suite, meeting rooms and a brand new 3rd generation rubber crumb floodlit pitch. For more information on these facilities call the centre direct on 0115 9151595.

If you know of an activity that is happening within the area that you think others may want to know about please contact me to spread the word or if you would like to know if there is an activity within the area I will try and find out for you.

Dance Academy Perform at Governors Civic Reception

Top Valley Dance Academy - Another fabulous performance.

Once again the Dance Academy members showed their professionalism in their performance at the Governors Civic Reception held at the Council House on October 19th. They overcame last minute changes to travel arrangements (therefore arriving with just minutes to spare before their performance) to deliver three fabulous performances to Chia Chia, Flames to Dust and Footloose.

They also have a great reason to celebrate. Westfield Ltd, owners of the Broadmarsh shopping centre in Nottingham, have agreed to sponsor them for the coming year ensuring not only that the Dance Academy can continue but that they can expand to a further 30 members.

With membership now set to double to 60 we can be sure that they will continue to dazzle us with their stunning performances.

October 13th Top Valley Family Activity Day

FAD is a HUGE Success !!!!

The Top Valley Family Activity Day (known by organisers as FAD) has been hailed a huge success by all those who took part. Both the workshop providers, organisers, parents/carers and children who attended the event, all concluded that the event was useful, fun and gave them plenty of ideas for activities to take home.

Over 350 parents/carers and children flooded through the gates of Top Valley School on 13th October to take part in just some of the 19 activities on offer. Activities included Flycars, Jitterbugs, K'Nex, Mask Making, Story Puppets and Fridge Magnets all delivered by Top Valley School and Engineering College, NCN and Castle College.

Over 66 parents/carers and their children have now signed up for further courses and there are already talks of making it an annual event for the area.

Neighbourhood Management for areas 1 and 2 contributed financially to the event which was primarily funded by Top Valley Extended Schools.

It is hoped that the success of this event will shape the learning of all those within the area and lead to other providers bringing events to the area.