Rotary Club donates dictionaries to local schools
A total of 115 Dictionaries for Life have been presented to four primary schools with a further 185 set to be delivered to a further seven schools thanks to the Rotary Club of Stowmarket Gipping Valley.
They have already gone to Combs Ford Primary, Rattlesden Primary, Abbotts Hall Primary and Thurston Primary.
The Dictionary for Life (D4L) promotes British English and encourages children to widen their vocabularies and consequently improve their life chances.
The headteachers of the schools said that they were very grateful to the Rotary Club for the valuable resource which the dictionaries provide for their pupils and the club’s president Shirley Miller said: “The Dictionary for Life project seeks to encourage independent learning and stimulate an interest in language, books and reading. We hope that the dictionaries will help the pupils not only now, but also when they go onto the next stages of their education and beyond.”
And the club has also presented a cheque for £500 to Elizabeth Berry from the Suffolk Accident and Rescue Service (SARS).
SARS responders are mobilised to specific types of incident where patients could benefit from the presence of an enhanced prehospital resource. The majority of the patients that they attend are in a critical condition and need urgent and specialist medical care to keep them alive or stabilise their condition en route to hospital. SARS currently responds to between 250 and 300 call-outs a year. In around 20% of these call-outs, SARS is the first medical resource on scene. They receive no payment or expenses for attending incidents and can respond in the hours of darkness or in poor weather when other advanced resources are not available.
Shirley Miller, ending her 12-month term in charge of the club, also handed her ribbon of office to the new President Philip Freeman (pictured above).
The Rotary Club of Stowmarket Gipping Valley is always looking for new members (both male and female) who are interested in good fellowship and service within the local community. They meet at the Cedars Hotel, in Stowmarket, on alternate Thursday evenings and if you would like to give them a try please contact Richard Tingey 07834 247244 or email richard@tingeys.co.uk. Their website address is http://www.gippingvalleyrotary.org and they are also on Facebook.