1. Hadley Wood
• WI. Celebrating WI Golden Jubilee
HADLEY WOOD NEWS
• School. Sporting
1960-2010
JULY 2010 ISSUE
• Bootcamp. Burgeoning
• Reading. Succeeding
• Conservatives. Cutting
• Gardens. Grabbed
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2. WI. Golden Jubilee. Slingo our first President. An exhibition
of past events over the 50 years was on
On June 8th the Hadley Wood Golf Club display in the main hall. As well as being
was bathed in a golden glow as the our official photographer, Mr. John
Womens Institute celebrated its 50th Leatherdale entertained us after supper
birthday. Seventy five ladies, including with a talk and slide show on the history
eleven Past Presidents and guests from of Hadley Wood. It was a memorable
the county enjoyed a delicious buffet evening of fun and friendship.
supper prepared by Phil Stringer. The Hilary Nunn
cake, made by Mrs. Ann Evans our Vice-
President, was cut by Mrs. Elizabeth Hadley Wood’s WI Past Presidents
Gardeners Corner.
Assuming that we are heading for a very
dry and hot summer starting in July, we
will need to prevent the plants and shrubs
from becoming parched.. This can be
done by adding good organic matter to
your borders which will hold the moisture.
This is particularly important in light sandy
and gritty soils. If you are planting tubs
and pots, add moisture retaining gel
granules which when watered will swell
into a jelly from which the plant can draw
moisture.
If there is going to be a drought, you
may like to consider more tolerant
planting schemes which will thrive in dry
soil. These may include Lavander or
Santolina (cotton lavender) with silver
foliage and yellow flowers, Rock Rose,
Cistus, Brooms-Cystisus and Artemisia.
Herbaceous perennials such as Oriental
Poppies, Red Hot Pokers, Montbretia,
Penstemon and a huge range of
geraniums are also quite happy in dry soil.
When cutting the lawn, set the height
adjuster one notch higher. This will help
prevent the grass drying out and keep it
Photo. Back row. L to R. Moira Leatherdale, Ann Evans, Elizabeth Slingo, Pat looking green.
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Front row. Freda Jerwood, Coral Cox, Frainy Ardeshir, Oonagh Nicholas, Eileen pruned back once flowered and seeds
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3. On June 16th the schoolchildren
walked from Courtleigh Avenue up Duchy
Road along Lancaster Avenue round into
Crescent East and finally back down via
the HWA Car Park to the playground. The
whole school took part in this nationwide
demonstration of support for the Charity
BRAKE raising over one thousand TAILORING AND REPAIRS BY EXPERTS
pounds in the process. This charity
to cover your Autumn flowering fruit from provides a range of support services to
birds by laying a net over them. road crash victims, including a national
darrensmithgardens@yahoo.co.uk helpline and support literature. It runs
community programmes such as its Road
June at Hadley Wood JAZZ IN THE MARY Safety Academy and trains teachers and
BEALE RESTAURANT others to provide safety education within
Primary School Friday 10th September
their communities especially to
Its been another busy month for Hadley Richard Busiakiewicz Trio. By popular request enjoy the particularly vulnerable groups such as
Wood School with several extra-curricular return of the masterful playing of Richard Busiakiewicz young drivers. As well as supporting the
on piano, accompanied by bass and drums. An evening charity the walk took place simultaneously
events to mark the end of term. not to miss. Sparkling wine and canapé reception at
7.30pm. 4 course dinner and live classic and modern jazz
with many other schools in the country in
throughout dinner until 11pm. £47.95 per person. the hope of getting into the Guinness
Payment with booking. Dress code: Lounge suit. Book of records as the biggest walking
bus event in the world. Then on Sunday
Lunch from £10 June 20th the School enjoyed its annual
in the Mary Beale Restaurant
summer fete run by the Friends of Hadley
Special Promotion! Mondays to Saturdays
1 course - £10 2 courses - £15 3 courses £20
Wood (FHWS) school. Pupils (both past
Booking advisable, but not always necessary. and present), staff, parents and friends all
turned up to take part in the fun. Julie
Norton secretary of the FHWS reports.
‘The weather was kind, cool whilst all the
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No one could go away hungry, as there
was a Mediterranean BBQ serving
kebabs, sausages and burgers
throughout the afternoon, as well as the
chance to buy some beautiful homemade
cupcakes from a parent who has her own
cake business – delicious! The café,
once again run by the school staff, served
traditional teas and coffees, and there
was an ice-cream van parked in the
playground for cooling the children down!
This year the inflatable village from Go
Bonkers! was back. There were 10 giant
inflatables to bounce, climb or slide on.
There was a “gladiator” style bouncy
platform where you could challenge a
friend to a duel, seeing who could stay on
the longest whilst bashing each other
with giant batons!
There were many other stalls for the
children to spend their money on, with
knock down the cans, hook a duck, sand
art, hairspraying and tombola’s galore to
name a few. Shopping opportunities for
parents included stalls selling jewellery,
clothes, handbags, cards and toys.
The Vine Street 6 entertained all
afternoon with their jazzy sounds, and the

4. afternoon finished with the raffle draw, curriculum. A very big thank you to all the
with lots of prizes donated by local FHWS Committee for their time and
businesses and parents. commitment to make this such a
It was a very successful afternoon, successful event, and to all the parents,
making a profit of well over £3,500. The volunteers and staff of the school who
funds raised from the fete will go towards helped throughout the day’.
the continued improvement of the Monday June 21st was the beginning
school’s outside areas as well as of Sports week. This was marked by a
providing resources for the creative parade in the playground at which all the
classes represented the thirty two finalists
in the football World Cup.
Each class made flags of the country
they represented and performed a song
from that country in the school hall. To
give you a flavour of what was going on,
Year Six and Year Five sang ‘Wave your
flag’ in Spanish and English and Year 1,
representing Germany, sang Bruder
Jakob…in German!
During the week there were three
sports afternoons organised by Miss
Price the schools PE Co-Ordinator which
included competitions with other local
schools in the borough as well as a folk
dance festival. As always is the case at
this school the parents were
tremendously supportive taking children
to the various venues and picking them
up afterwards. The week’s finale was a
fantastic assembly in the hall with
everybody singing the World Cup song.

5. and 10.30am Sunday classes filling up
fast. The Wednesday evening class at
7.30pm is also developing a loyal
following.
“The great thing about the bootcamp is
that anybody can take part, of all levels of
fitness. We have children from 8 years
old, to more mature participants in their
60s!!” says Jamie Anderson. “The social
aspect of the group training is proving a
real hit, everyone is loving meeting their
Barnet Boot Camp’s fellow residents and neighbours whilst
Booming Success! getting fitter and stronger”.
Will it run throughout the year? “We
It has been six weeks since the launch of
intend to run the classes well into the
Hadley Wood’s own bootcamp. Each
winter. We will convert the outdoor
week the varied and fun exercises
bootcamp to indoor group training when
delivered on the Bartrams Lane field
the weather turns nasty. We are in the
behind One to One Fitness have been
process of converting the downstairsgym
keeping the local residents invigorated.
As an extension to the specialised
personal training business at One to One
Fitness on Crescent West, Jamie
Anderson has gone into partnership with
Bootcamp expert Russell Turner. They
first met in April on a course, and joined into more of an athletic performance
forces quickly to deliver this highly gym, which will be ideal for the winter
effective form of affordable exercise, bootcamp.”
renowned for its weight loss and For more information on both the
conditioning qualities. The 40 minute barnetbootcamp.com and personal
classes are only £10, with both its 9am training call 0208 447 1661, Russell
Turner direct on 07956306055 or Jamie
Anderson 07798776248 or you can email
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6. Cuts? It’s your choice.
Read and Succeed The scale of the record levels of public
Hadley Wood School is to be the new debt left by the previous Government
home of an out of school tuition mean that we do
service ‘Read and Succeed’, a not have a choice
specialised tutoring school for about whether to
children aged 3 years and over. The make cuts in public
innovative programme, approved by spending. Any
linguistic specialists around the world household knows
is now available to the Hadley Wood that if you spend
community. As the children are now more than you have
faced with ever-increasing academic and keep using
challenges, Read and Succeed aims your credit card
to provide the core understandings of sooner rather than later you have to pay
phonetic recognition, enabling pupils it back. The scale of the problem is that if
to develop their reading ability to a we fail to act, within 5 years we will be
level that is often far higher than that paying out £70bn in debt interest a year
of their peers’. – more than we spend on educating our
Founder, Zoe Andronicou, whose children, policing our streets or defending
academic background is the English our country. The Government has
Language and Linguistics followed by announced its plans to seek the opinions
further specialised studies in of the public to help cut government
phonetics, has been instrumental in spending. Last week the government
developing this concept. “Our aim is launched the first phase of its Spending
to identify each pupils’ strengths and Challenge. Every suggestion put forward
weaknesses to ensure we provide will be considered and closely examined.
them with the essential tools needed I believe that this is a great opportunity for
to fulfil their maximum potential” the people of Enfield to get involved in the
said Zoe. difficult decisions which will be made in
During her years of teaching, Zoe October.
has supported children of varying The Spending Challenge is split into
abilities, including those with learning two phases; the first is asking six million
difficulties such as dyslexia and public sector workers to share their ideas
ADHD and has seen impressive on how to save money, delivering more
results. Read and Succeed, for less. These people are at the forefront
approved by Islington Council, have of our public services and know what
extended their range of classes to works well, where to cut waste and what
provide further studies in preparation we can do to spend money efficiently.
for 4+, 11+ and SATs. The second phase will be a wider public
The Phonographix reading prog- consultation to gain your views on what
ramme has proven to be a reliable areas of spending should be cut and
and consistent framework, upon ideas as to how the government can work
which pupils reading abilities can more efficiently. The website will be
grow from the solid foundations that launched shortly and I will be meeting with
are built upon at the outset to ensure constituents and welcoming suggestions.
greater fluency further along the One cut the people of Enfield had no
course. And with a limit of 8 children say in was the decision to cut prayers
per class children will receive the from the full Council meeting and May I make an early bid for its inclusion
maximum from each lesson. Within substitute with poetry. This week I will be in the Council meetings? Psalm 127 v 1 :
the first term the basic sounds are meeting a number of constituents in “Unless the Lord builds the House the
learnt, which equips pupils to tackle Parliament’s Central Lobby who will see labourers work in vain”.
the advanced sound formations to inscribed on the floor words of poetry. David Burrowes MP
follow. Each parent will know their
child’s reading ability from the start as
free reading assessments are
Advertise your business here to ca. 1500 households in Hadley Wood,
available. Monken Hadley and Hadley Highstone.
A programme which will begin in
September 2010 and run on a
Saturday morning, will ensure pupils
Contact Lisa on
can begin their new academic year
with extra support whilst developing
their creative abilities.
02084497193
Zoe Andronicou for details or email hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com

7. neighbourhood over-
development. Hadley
Wood and its surrounding
areas have been badly
affected by these
phenomena, and so in
principle these changes
are to be welcomed locally.
PPS3 sets out central
government’s national
planning policies on
housing. Local planning
authorities and the
Planning Inspectorate are Review of Housing Supply, which
expected to have regard to proposed a significant increase in
the policies in PPS3 in housing supply, particularly in the south-
Garden grabbing preparing development plans, and when east, with a view to reducing housing
determining planning applications. When inflation. The law of unintended
Planning law (specifically, Planning Policy changes in PPS3 take place, therefore, consequences duly intervened, and in
Statement 3: Housing (PPS3)) has been they are likely to be far-reaching. January 2010 the (same) government
changed, to give local councils the ability By way of background, PPS3 appeared published its investigation into residential
to discourage “garden-grabbing” and in late 2006, as a result of the Barker garden development. This was under-
taken in response to concerns that the
development of private gardens was on
5,000 people from all over the borough the increase, and had become a concern
Letters to the Editor and beyond, many of whom were at the for local councils, which in many cases
event and all of whom are regular did not have policies with which to
We are delighted to tell you that visitors to the Market have signed the counter this growing trend.
Suzanna and Tom gave us our first Petition organised by Friends of Barnet As a result of the investigation, PPS3
grandchild, Alice Jenkin, on Monday Market (FoBM). The Petition seeks to was amended to make it clear that there
14th June at 4.34pm BST. She was persuade Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, the is no presumption that land that has been
born at University College Hospital in owners of the Market, that a proper previously developed is necessarily
London and weighed 7lbs, 7oz. Mum, hard surface should be laid. The current suitable for housing development, nor
Dad and baby are all very well and now loose and dangerous surface has been that the whole of the curtilage should be
back at home. Best wishes, deemed unsuitable by the Council and developed.
Liz and Howard Yates every one of the 5,000 signatories. The Central government has established
(Proud grandparents/babysitters) Petition has been checked and verified that the combination of an annual
and will be held by FoBMs solicitors. national target for 60% of new housing to
Yours Chris Smith be built on brown-field land has meant
that councils have been forced into
granting planning permission for
Regular readers of the Hadley Wood unwanted development on garden land.
News will know that in a recent article Thus private residential gardens are no
there were a number of letters from longer considered to be previously
pupils at Hadley Wood School developed (brown-field) land.
complaining about dog mess in and Allied to this, central government is
around the school. The pupils were removing the requirement for councils to
concerned about the irresponsible take account of the national minimum
The Jerwood family would like to thank behaviour of a minority of dog owners density of 30 dwellings per hectare. This
everyone who supported our Open but also highlighted the fact that there should lead to more local decision
Garden event on 6th June. Thanks to was a lack of dog waste bins in and making as to what types of homes are
the generosity of those who attended, around the school. I took up this matter suitable for a particular area, leading in
we raised a total of £1250.00 for with the Council and a site visit was turn – certainly in our area - to more family
Ovarian Cancer Action. Thank you arranged at the school. I have since had homes.
Valerie Jerwood an email from Louiza Loizides, the As might be expected, these changes
Headteacher of Hadley Wood School. have broadly been welcomed by
Louiza confirmed that the visit was very environmentalists, whilst house builders
Just to keep you up to date with Barnet useful and informative for the pupils. It have labelled them as unnecessary. One
Market issues in case you missed it. appears that the issues that they raised is tempted to the view that the law of
On Saturday June 12th Theresa Villiers are being addressed although there is unintended consequences may again
MP and Barnet Councillors still some concern about the park area come into play, in the shape of additional
Wendy Prentice and David Longstaff around the school which I am currently pressure on the Green Belt. Watch this
were at Barnet Market to show their pursuing. space…
support for the Barnet Market Petition. Cllr Paul McCannah Guy Wheatcroft
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views towards central London at the rear. 5 bedrooms (1 en suite), family reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, master bedroom suite with walk reception room, family home. Externally the property boasts from a south
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A delightful detached family residence which would benefit from some A charming mews-style house which was The Diary for the Estate. A beautifully presented 1st floor apartment with independent access and
modernisation situated in this peaceful turning in the heart of Hadley Wood The Hadley Bourne Estate is an outstanding and historic collection of its own rear garden in this tree lined avenue in the heart of Hadley Wood.
within easy reach of local shops, primary school and mainline station. architecture enjoying an unrivalled outlook over Hadley Green. Hallway, Reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, master bedroom with en suite
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family bathroom, separate wc, southerly aspect rear garden, tandem parking space.
garage.
The Hadley Wood Association
7, Crescent East, Hadley Wood, Herts. EN4 0EL 020 8449 7193
hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com www.hadleywood.org.uk
Chairman Graham Sharp 02084492133 grahamjsharp@tiscali.co.uk
Editor and Publisher Rod Armstrong 0208449 5924 rodarmstrong@btinternet.com
Assistant Editor Rosa Ferguson Lobo
Advertising and Centre Manager Lisa Winston 020 8449 7193 hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com
Hall Bookings Karen Fernandes 07831 753 268
Security Task Force 0870 770 6880
Safe Neighbourhood Team Police Sergeant D. Walker 02087212688 or 07920 233775
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