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Principal’s Update

We have reached the end of

what has been a difficult term

for both students and staff and I

would like to thank the

students, staff and parents for

their continued support of the

college.

Year 11s have finished their

PPEs, and completed their final

full term at the college. The

results of their PPEs will form

their personalised learning

checklists to assist them in their

revision for the GCSEs in the

summer term.

As you are aware, we have

recently undergone an Ofsted

inspection, the inspection letter

will be available in due course

and we are pleased with the

outcome.

This term we are saying

goodbye to Mr Shepherd who

has taken a teaching job at

another school. We wish him

well for the future and thank

him for his work here as both a

History teacher and House

Progress Leader. Miss Demuth

will be taking over Mr

Shepherd’s history classes.

As you are aware Mr Challen is

acting House Progress Leader

for Victorious and we are

pleased that Mrs Belasco will be

taking over Triumph until the

end of the college year.

Mrs Williams has been

promoted to Student Support

and Guidance Manager and

after Easter, Mrs Cavinder and

Miss Dolby will be joining the

Student Support Team.

Mr Smith a Higher Level

Teaching Assistant in Science,

will be joining the science team

as a newly qualified teacher and

starting after Easter, Mr Brown

will be the replacement Higher

Level Teaching Assistant.

This term we have also

welcomed Miss Bowles and Mrs

Pescops as Teaching Assistants

and Mr Slade as a Cover

Supervisor.

Enjoy your Easter break and let’s

hope that we do not see any

more snow!

Ms C Cubbage, Principal

SPOTLIGHT Issue 2, March 2018

Fareham Apprenticeship & Jobs Fair

Rock Challenge

Robotics Challenge

Year 7 ‘Get Inspired’ Trip

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Extra curricular

activities broaden

horizons

We have been very busy this term,

with students out on various trips

and events. To help plan for their

futures, in January, Joe Hickey,

Austin Hardy and Tommy Solen

visited Military Mentors to take

part in a cookery demonstration by

The Royal Navy.

Rock Challenge

We are proud of the 57 students

who participated in this years Rock

Challenge on Tuesday 20 February.

The theme Anonymous won the

team 5 Awards of Excellence in the

following categories:

Stage Use

Choreography

Stage Crew

Entertainment

Performance

A big thank you to Oak Road Co-op

for donating food supplies to keep

us all going.

Year 7 got inspired at

Portsmouth Guildhall

A group of 30 Year 7 students

visited Portsmouth Guildhall’s ’Get

Inspired’ careers fair. The students

had the opportunity to explore

many different career options and

enter competitions. Harmony

Storey and Jake Andrews both won

prizes for their enthusiastic

participation and feedback.

Year 10 explored opportunities

at Fareham Apprenticeship &

Jobs Fair

Year 10 students were invited to

attend the Fareham Apprenticeship

and Jobs Fair hosted by Suella

Fernandez MP at Ferneham Hall on

Thursday 8 March. This gave the

students the opportunity to chat to

many local employers, the Armed

Forces and local colleges to help

them plan for their futures.

Budding STEM enthusiasts

participate in robotics challenge

The Henry Cort Community College

was chosen from 196 schools

across the country to take part in

the Tomorrow’s Engineers EEP

Robotics Challenge – an exciting

national robotics challenge that

challenges students to be involved

in “space missions”. The

Tomorrow’s Engineers EEP Robotics

Challenge introduces student

teams to real-world engineering,

technology, robotics and

computing challenges.

Our students met every Tuesday

afternoon to learn how to build,

program and control autonomous

LEGO robots to complete a series of

short, exciting space missions. They

also researched, designed, planned

and presented their own solution

to a contemporary scientific

problem - developed by LEGO

Education with NASA. The

culmination of these weeks of

intense learning was the regional

competition at the Richard Taunton

College Southampton.

Out of 16 schools that competed at

the regionals finals, our team won

the prestigious trophy for the

aviation challenge but narrowly

missed out as the overall top

school. The RAF engineers were

very impressed with the design and

creativity of the team and their

depth of scientific understanding.

Benjamin Lovering, Sam Carney and

Daniel Vartan were very impressive

with the various tasks and Maxim

Ganev’s paper aeroplane design

received good commendations.

Overall, it was a great day and I was

impressed with the depth of

knowledge of our students and

their ability to solve real

engineering problems.

Well done to Sophie Greentree,

Caitlin Adey, Maxim Ganev, Daniel

Vartan (Exceptional), Samuel

Carney (Exceptional), Benjamin

Lovering (Exceptional), Harry

Woodward (Exceptional), James

Ross, Anna Fowles, Amber Hawkins.

Students explore life at

Southampton University

Our programme with Southampton

University continued with events

for both Year 8 and Year 10. Year

8s had the opportunity to explore

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Exam and Revision Support

It is impossible to over-emphasise the importance of serious, planned

revision. Wherever possible, students are advised to study on their

own, in a quiet room, without the distractions of music and television.

There is lots of revision information available to view on our website:

www.henry-cort.hants.sch.uk/examrevisioninfo. The Year 11 GCSE and

Key Stage 3 exam timetables is also available to view on the same

page.

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the university further and take part

in academic workshops.

Year 10 took part in a two day

event where they became part of

the United Nations and learned

how to negotiate and network

amongst other soft skills. We are

very proud of the Henry Cort team

– Alfie Birks, Catherine Brewerton,

Lauren Evans, Ethan Farrell, Dean

Lawrence, Sarah McArdle,

Charlotte Smith and Charlie Steer –

who came 3rd overall.

Watersports Trip 2018

Thank you to all parents for

keeping up with payments for the

Water Sports Trip, it is much

appreciated. We are quickly

approaching May Half Term and

students and staff are becoming

very excited. Hoodies are

available to buy, letters have

gone out at the Parents Evening

on 20 March. Please ensure you

bring your child’s passport and

EHIC card into myself by

Thursday 29 March so that they

can be checked and photo copied

for our records.

If you were unable to attend the

parents evening, please make me

aware so that I can send your

Parent Pack, with vital

information in, home. Let the

count down begin!

Mrs Belasco

Careers Education

The Henry Cort Community

College has an excellent record of

delivering outstanding Careers

Education, Information, Advice

and Guidance (CEIAG) to its

students. We are committed to

providing our students with a

comprehensive programme CEIAG

and Work Related Learning (WRL)

throughout Years 7-11.

We have decided that the college

should aim to achieve the

Investors in Careers award by the

end of 2019. Investor in Careers

(IiC) is a nationally recognised

Quality in Careers standard award.

It is designed as a development

tool to help raise standards and

recognise excellence in careers

education, information, advice

and guidance (CEIAG).

The Award is based on the

Investor in People model and

includes in its structure the key

features of the quality assurance

cycle. The Award is structured

around four key elements relating

to the management of Careers

Education, Information, Advice

and Guidance.

Commitment

Organisation

Delivery

Evaluation.

There are three assessed stages to

the full award of Investor in

Careers covering eight outcomes

in total.

We will keep parents informed of

our progress and may contact

some for evaluation purposes.

This term we launched a new

careers resource Career

Companion to help students and

parents look at different career

paths:

https://bespoke.careercompa

nion.co.uk/libraries/index

Mr B Gellett, Careers Leader

Transition Workshops Are you a parent of a Year 5 pupil or know any parents of Year 5 pupils? We are holding our Year 5/6

transition workshops on Saturday 21 and 28 April from 9:15-12:30pm. To book a place visit our prospective

parent page on our website: www.henry-cort.hants.sch.uk/prospective

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Sport Roundup

We have been very busy this term in

the PE Department, with students

competing in various sports across

all age groups. We would like to

thank all of the students that

regularly turn up for us and give us

100% commitment when they

represent Henry Cort.

Unfortunately we have been hit by

‘The Beast from the East’ which has

caused many fixtures to be

cancelled. We are however looking

to rearrange as many of these as we

can fit in. Most of our sporting

highlights are shown on our Twitter

page @HenryCortPE as seen on

pages 4-5.

Individual Achievements

We are proud to hear of the

following students’ individual

achievements outside of college:

Billy Campbell and Mike Thomas

have been selected in the London

Irish Bronze Rugby Academy.

Zach Shue represents Hampshire

U15s and also in London Irish

Bronze Academy.

Holly Cristofoli represented GB in

the junior dressage team.

Molly Baker – Cheerleading,

National Standard.

Gabby Bedford – Rugby for

Trojans

Charlotte Smith – Archery

Reece Bramley – competes for

CrossFit Fareham #6, he has

recently entered the Cub Open

competition competing world

wide.

Toby Steward has been chosen

for the South East Hants District

Cricket team and is on the cusp of

being put into the Hampshire

Cricket side at his age group.

Sport Leaders News

It has been a busy term for the

Sports Leaders and primary school

sport. Seven events have taken

place at Henry Cort since Christmas

with over 300 primary school

children from 16 local schools taking

part in a number of different sports

with places to the Hampshire School

Games up for grabs in all of them.

The competition standard is high.

Our Henry Cort sports leaders have

officiated, scored and provided

training at all of these events and

have been brilliant in their

enthusiasm and professionalism.

Sport Leader responsibilities include

organisation, setting up pitches/

courts, refereeing or scorekeeping

and some leaders are focused on

looking after school children,

assisting the primary teachers in

running the teams and making sure

the competition runs smoothly.

We can confidently say that,

without the hard work of the sports

leaders, these events would not

attract the numbers they have and

certainly would not run as

professionally as they have done.

Katie Hewitt, Amba Murdoch, Gabbi

Bedford and Joe Davies have been

exceptional in their officiating and

have received numerous plaudits

from primary school staff. Oli

Ingram, Charlie Bell and Ben Godwin

have been instrumental in

organising the teams and scoring

each event.

Other sports leaders who have all

been vital in making these events

possible are Toby Hancock, Harry

Cook, Rebecca Vartan, Mia

Madgewick and a special mention to

Toby Steward who took on the

responsibility of team manager for a

primary school team.

The sports leaders are not only vital

to the competitions running but

they also make them enjoyable for

the primary children and they

deserve special praise for this. I

have asked all of the staff who have

been at these events who they

would like to nominate as Sports

Leader of the Term. It was a close

run with only a couple of votes

separating the top two but our

Sports Leader of the Term this time

goes to Katie Hewitt. Well done

Katie you have been brilliant!

We have seen a huge increase in

participants from primary schools in

these tournaments and festivals.

The netball saw 12 different teams

enter squads of 9 and the tag rugby

brought in over 100 children. We

have been able to run additional

events and new festivals for

younger children to allow all

children the opportunity to

compete. We have started working

with local community clubs,

Fareham Heathens and Fareham

School of Gymnastics, to allow the

children a route into sport outside

of the curriculum.

Next term starts with a Change For

Life Festival, completely set up and

run by our sports leaders and then

we will move into summer sports

including; rounder’s, tri golf and

athletics.

Thank you to all of the Sports

leaders, you have been superb this

term.

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Henry Cort PE Team

News

The following photos and news

comes from the Henry Cort PE

Twitter page @HenryCortPE, give

us a follow for all the latest

information, fixtures and results.

Some excellent team

performances this term from all

Year groups, just take a look…

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Invincible

House News

The end of term two

already and the summer upon us

(you can tell by the weather!).

Another successful term for

Invincible and our many gifted

students.

Mrs Connochie would especially like

to mention four students: Sophie

Crook, Katie Privett, Freya Peck and

Kirsty Wareham-Collins who have

performed in The Kim Ellen School

of Dance annual dance show. It is a

fantastic variety show of song and

dance with ages from 2 to 16. Katie

won the runner-up prize for senior

progress and Sophie won the all-

round dance trophy. Very well done

girls.

Also a mention to Freddie Oliver,

who is doing very well with his

boxing and Iris Lin, who is making a

huge effort, settling in very well and

improving her English by the day.

Miss McKay’s tutor group have four

students who very much deserve a

mention too. Mollie Baker is off to

Paris in a few weeks to participate in

an International Cheer competition,

Ethan Farrell is still training hard

with Fareham Heathens, Izzy

Smithson has taken part in the

Stubbington 10k and regularly does

park runs and Lilly Downer has her

grading for the 6th mon in Judo.

Miss Mckay hates to single out

anyone however, because she tells

me that she has a lovely group and

that they all deserve a big very well

done!

Mrs Howat writes: IHP have had a

good term and are working hard as

usual! Joseph Brooks and Callum

Ulke have been particularly

enthusiastic during tutor time and

are happy to lead activities and

encourage others to take part too.

Amba Murdock has been really

busy with sporting activities and

getting involved with football and

cross country with the school teams.

Rachel Myers is enjoying playing the

Bassoon with the Hampshire youth

Orchestra and is looking forward to

her next performance.

Year 11 have been

revising hard for their

PPEs and deserve some

good results!

And finally from Mrs

Durham, everyone in

IDH has maintained a

positive attitude

throughout this term and we are

keen to keep our title as the tutor

group with the most house points!

Our year 11s have had a really

positive attitude towards their PPE

exams and our year 10s have also

been very positive about their

recent R.E exam. Our year 9s

continue to be a funny and lively

presence in tutor. Our very lovely

and sensible year 8s continue to

work very well and their behaviour

is very positive in all of their lessons.

Our year 7s are enjoying their time

at Henry Cort and continue to be a

delightful addition to our tutor

group. We are all looking forward to

the summer term and hopefully

some warmer weather!

A big thank you from me Invincible

for being fabulous. I mean it!

Mr Rhodes, House Progress Leader

Triumph House

News

Two thirds of another academic

year has gone already. There are

glorious yellow Triumphant daffodils

everywhere despite winter’s refusal

to go away.

We have just had our Triumph

House celebration assembly. The

following students were recognised

by their tutors for the positive

attitude and contribution this term:

TAB -Megan Miles, Beth Connors;

TAS - Deanna Allen, Vincent Ash;

TBC - Harry Lee, Libby Capel; TCD -

Luke Arnold, George Starkey; TEH -

Zach Donnelly, Tibi Panican; THM -

Jodie Adams, Bronwyn Chandler; TJS

- Jordan Williams, Ben Frampton;

TPN - Danni England, Declan

O’Mahony; TRG - William

Backhouse, Connor Gill; TSL -

Jasmine Pelley, Nathan Finlay.

The following Triumph students will

receive certificates for their 100%

attendance since September:

Jack Andrews - TAS, Vincent Ash-

TAS, Eve Barber - TRG, Lewis Brett-

THM, Shannon England -TBC,

Nathan Finlay-TSL, Sophie

Greentree - TAB, Amelia Haynes -

TPN, Bryony Haynes - TBC, Thea

Lamport - TAS, Jake Lecomte - TJS,

Amy Millis - TCD, Jasmine Pelley -

TSL, Ellen Pryle - THM, Hannah Pryle

- TEH, Euan Smart - TEH, Charlotte

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Smith - TAB, Ethan Storey- TRG, Emi

Taylor - TBC, Ethan Toms - TAS,

Clarissa Turner - TRG, Rebecca

Vartan - TCD, William Whitlam -

TAB, Jordan Williams - TJS.

Well done to all of you for your

resilience and application. TAS is the

Tutor group with the best overall

attendance.

TAB has the best collective attitude

to learning this term. Well done

everybody in TAB. Significantly there

are a lot of Year 11 students in this

tutor group showing great attitude

and respect to the younger students

in the college.

In terms of individual house points

this term, 56 Triumph students

received Bronze certificates for

achieving 50 house points and an

incredible 80 Triumph students have

received 100 House points and have

been awarded their Silver

certificates. Well done to you all.

The 12 students who received gold

certificates for having achieved 200

house points already are Bella

Bowling - TPN, Boe Knight - TJS,

Charlotte Smith - TAB, Chloe Worrall

- TJS, Claire Samuel - TAB, Hannah

Pryle - TEH, Josh Finlay -TAB, Kali

Langston - TPN, Megan Miles - TAB,

Paige Johnson - TPN, Vincent Ash -

TAS, William Whitlam - TAB.

One student, Sophie Greentree in

TAB, has managed to achieve over

350 house points and has been

awarded her Diamond Certificate.

TAB is the tutor group with the

highest overall number of House

Points. Mrs Belasco is doing

something very right with her tutees

there.

That brings me to my last point. I am

signing off as House Progress Leader

for Triumph and will be handing the

Triumph reins to Mrs Belasco. I am

heading to pastures new, well old

actually as I have taken another job

at a school closer to where I live.

I have been at Henry Cort for 17

years. I stayed that long because I

think it is a great school and great

place to work.

I wish everybody associated with

the school good health and

happiness.

Mr Shepherd,

Triumph House Progress Leader

Victorious

House News

Firstly I would like to say a massive

thank-you. It has been a hard term

for all of Victorious and the college.

It has been amazing to see the

House and the college pull together

after the sad loss of Mrs Lloyd. She

would have been incredibly proud of

us all. It is with real pride that I am

writing this as Acting House Progress

Leader and I am excited to continue

to support the students in the

House.

This has been another amazingly

successful one for Victorious with us

once again leading the way for top

house.

Tutors were asked to name their

good eggs to be celebrated in praise

assembly. Tutors found this

incredibly challenging but wanted to

recognise these EGGSellent

students: VBC- Lacey Way, Louie

Wakefield, VBW- Ashleigh Lycett,

Poppy Trace , VGA- Kay Halsall,

Emma Norris, VGC- Tyler Watts,

Kiara Taylor, VGD - Gen Crouch, Izzy

Kimberly, VHW - Rhys Richards,

Catherine Brewerton, VMC- Josh

Judge, Niamh Edmunds VNS- Ryan

Badger, Jasmin Amin VST - Kyle

McLachlan, Poppy Nicholls, VWS -

Amber Jeffries, Megan Webber. And

not a special mention goes to Mr

Copelin who was nominated twice

by Josh as the best person in the

tutor group.

This term, 72 Victorious students

received Bronze certificates for

achieving 50 house points and 78

students have received 100 House

points and have been awarded their

Silver certificates. An amazing 21

students received gold certificates

for achieving 200 house points

already.

At the top of our House Points is

Star Firman in VNS, has managed to

achieve over 350 house points and

has been awarded her Diamond

Certificate. Well done to you.

Outside of college the students in

the House continue to excel.

Catherine Brewerton is

planning a trip to Mexico with

the guides. She will be off in July

2019 and will be undertaking

some animal welfare

conservation and helping

students with their writing,

reading and communication

skills. So far Catherine has

raised around £1,100 and will

continue to raise more money

over the summer.

Alice Crossley did a voice over

for a commercial for the

University of Winchester.

Catherine Jeffrey took part in a

dance competition called

dancing with choirs.

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Bryony Gray is 3 star in her

kayaking course and will be

kayaking from Lee on Solent to

Ryde in May.

I am writing this waiting for the cast

to return ready for the first night of

the School of Rock. Victorious are

well represented in the School of

Rock a big well done to: Alice

Crossley, Akshat Goel, Marissa Lee,

Kimmy Marshal, Lilly Mizen, Ryan

Badger, Mason Kops, Seb Howes

and Ellie Thornton.

Mr Challen, Acting Victorious

House Progress Leader

Daring House

News

The Spring Term has

been a challenge for

many of the students but has

continued to be successful for

students in Daring house in many

ways. This was celebrated in the

presentation of the ‘Good Egg’

awards in the final assembly of the

term. The students receiving these

awards have demonstrated

excellent work in lessons or have

demonstrated helpfulness,

perseverance or resilience in some

way. Between them they have

some excellent Progress Reports,

some making outstanding progress

since Term 1. They have taken

responsibility within their tutor

groups, leading activities, planning

assemblies and generally being

active members of the group. Some

of them are outstanding sports

leaders, involved in helping to run a

wide range of primary school

festivals this term.

On behalf of all the Daring tutors

that have nominated you to be

recognised for your efforts, I wish

to say a huge well done and thank

you for all your hard work.

DLT - Anastasia Mullen and

Toby Hancock

DCB - Ellison Day and Dylan

Enfield

DJP - Anna Fowles and Oliver

Howe

DJW - Lauren Evans and

Charlotte Galloway

DVB - Holly Cristofoli and Billy

Campbell

DDA - Tim Summers and Henry

Atkins

DPS - Harriett Shrimpton and

Mya Simpson-Allen

DNC - Sophie Howe and

Andrew Evans

DCA - Ryan Ojla and Mikey

Brooks

DLH - Mme Hubert found it

difficult to nominate just 2

students so the award was

shared between the whole

tutor group!

A large number of Daring students

have also been involved in extra

curricular activities this term in

particular Rock Challenge and this

weeks’ production of the ‘School of

Rock’. A personal thank you to all

of the students who performed in

the Rock Challenge competition in

February. It is always such a

positive event and students really

do rise to the occasion helping out

with hair and make-up etc. Indeed

this year I felt a little bit like a spare

part as the students had it all

organised for me.

I know a large proportion of

students are also performing this

week, despite the onset of the

dreaded end of term lurgy. I am

very much looking forward to

watching it on Thursday evening – a

nice way to go into the Easter

break.

A special mention also needs to go

out to Holly Cristofoli who has

recently been selected to compete

with the Junior GB Dressage team.

Holly’s first competition was a

couple of weeks ago and she

achieved huge success, including

being asked to compete for the

additional day where she came 1st.

This places Holly 3rd overall in the

GB team with some exciting

opportunities ahead. We wish her

the best of luck!

This is also the last opportunity for

me to say thanks and farewell to

the Year 11 students in Daring.

They are currently working

incredibly hard towards their final

GCSE exams and have been a

fantastic group of students to work

with. I wish you all Good Luck for

the future!

Mrs Warner,

Daring House Progress Leader

New PE Kit from September 2018

We are pleased to announce that

SkoolKit will be stocking a new PE

kit with quick drying fabric.

This will be a

phased change

and available to

new Year 7s as

part of uniform

expectations.

Existing students

are not expected

to change from the

old kit, as SkoolKit

will be selling the

remaining old

stock.

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Keep up to date with events

Keep up to date with events, exams, college closures and sporting

fixtures relevant to your child by subscribing one or more calendars to

your device: www.henry-cort.hants.sch.uk/collegecalendar

To sync calendars to your device click on Calendars and select which

calendar you wish to view. Please note that ‘General Events’ includes

holidays, college closure days and whole college events. Then click on

Subscribe and select which device you wish the calendar to be imported

to. New events will update in your calendar automatically.

Find out what we are up to by following us……

www.henry-cort.hants.sch.uk (for calendar, curriculum

information, letters and information from parent

information evenings).

@HenryCortCollege (for general alerts and information)

@HenryCortNews (for general alerts and information)

@HenryCortPE (for PE news and fixtures)

@HenryCortRock (Rock Challenge updates)

@Henrycort_art (Gallery of student artwork)

Date Event

30 March - 13 April Easter Holidays - Return Week A

Friday 20 April

Year 11 PPE Results Day

Year 10 Taster Day at Fareham College

Year 8 Energy Quest Workshop

Saturday 21 April Year 5/6 Transition Workshops (9:15-12:30)

Thursday 26 April Year 7 Subject Consultation Meetings

Year 9 Big Bang Trip to Ageas Bowl

Saturday 28 April Year 5/6 Transition Workshops (9:15-12:30)

30 April-4 May Year 7-9 Exams

Tuesday 1 May Musicians at Whiteley Parish Assembly

Monday 7 May College Closed - Bank Holiday

Thursday 10 May Year 10 Subject Consultation Meetings

Friday 11 May Non-Uniform Day

Saturday 19 May Year 6 & Parent Workshops (9:15-12:30)

26 May - 2 June Water Sports Trip

Wednesday 23 May Parent Coffee Evening (7:00pm)

28 May—1 June Half Term - Return Week A

Do you need support?

We have a Parent Support Adviser

who offers support to any parent

with a child attending Henry Cort or

any of the cluster schools with issues

that they are finding hard to deal

with.

Could you benefit from some

support in any of the areas listed

below?

Behaviour management

Attendance or Lateness to school

Benefits & Housing Advice

Self Esteem

Support with attending schools

Support to access services in your

community

Signposting to other agencies.

Family and Parenting Advice

Referrals to other agencies

….

To find out more please contact:-

Parent Support Adviser

Stella Pratt on 01329 843127 or

07748 631862

stella.pratt@hants.gov.uk

Comedy Night Friday 6 July 2018

Look out for the line up on

our community events page