Favourite Links

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Updated: 6/5/08

A FEW ADDITIONAL SITES

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Some of our Favourite Links

Olveston School has links with other local organisations which you may find of interest. Also listed are some useful third parties and some favourites. If you know of any suitable links that we could add to this page, please email them in.

Olveston Pre-School
Olveston Pre-School is a charitable organisation providing first class education and care for children between the ages of three and school age. We provide an environment where children can learn through play. Guided by our philosophy: ‘It's not what children can't do, rather what they can do', children are supported to develop at their own pace. Our Aims are to enhance the development and education of children under statutory school age in a parent supported, community based group, to provide a safe, secure and stimulating environment, to work within a framework which ensures equality of opportunity for all children and families

Olveston Out OF School Club (OOSC)
Opened in January 2007, OOSC provides after-school care for children attending Olveston School up to 6pm daily in the old School Hall. Children are provided with a healthy snack and drink on arrival and are able to choose from the wide range of activities on offer, both indoors and outdoors, whilst supported by friendly and highly-qualified staff. The club managers Cath Purchase and Helen Day, primary teachers themselves and parents of children at the school, set up the club in response to the needs of school parents. The club was inspected by Ofsted in May 2007 and the report highlighted: ‘children are happy and keen to attend’, ‘older children mix well with the younger ones’ and ‘staff provide excellent role models’.

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St Mary’s Church, Olveston - ‘Breakfast Club’
At Breakfast Club we provide an alternative to the traditional forms of service in a church building. We meet in the School Hall at Olveston School on Sunday mornings from 10am to 11am. We seek to find God in a family-friendly setting, using DVDs, modern music, drama, art and craft activities, games, prayers, and simply meeting and talking together over breakfast (including croissants, pancakes, 'proper' coffee and tea). There are newspapers available for any grown-ups who want some peace while their children are in their groups. For more information click the link on the 'Groups' page of St Mary's Church web site or contact Helen Webb on 01454 615827.

Stepping Stones Pre-School
We are a small friendly preschool based in Olveston village who provide a caring and stimulating environment for children aged 2 ½ to school age. We cater for a wide variety of needs by opening around school hours where possible and offering lunch clubs on some sessions. Our philosophy is “Where the environment is small and friendly the learning comes naturally”. To support this we work on a high adult/child ratio within a small group of up to 18 children.

The National Trust & Trusty The Hedgehog
The National Trust is a charity and is completely independent of Government. We protect and open to the public over 300 historic houses and gardens and 49 industrial monuments and mills. But it doesn’t stop there. We also look after forests, woods, fens, beaches, farmland, downs, moorland, islands, archaeological remains, castles, nature reserves, villages - for ever, for everyone.

South Gloucestershire Council
As well as providing parks and play areas, your council provides schooling and a host of other services to support you and your child. You will find essential advice and support for you and your family.

Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted)
We inspect and regulate to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. The new Ofsted brings together the wide experience of four inspectorates to make a greater difference for every child, and for all young people and adult learners, in England. Their educational, economic and social well-being will promote our success as a country.

Beanotown!
Want to find out all about your favourite Beanotown characters without having to read big, dull, heavy biographies with lots of pages and no pictures? Try Beanotown - all you need to know online! You'll find games, puzzles, and things to do. From helping Dennis splat Beanotown with tomato's to building a robot of your very own, you're bound to find something to raise a smile!

Elberton Road
Olveston
South Gloucestershire
BS35 4DB

Tel: (01454) 613299
Fax: (01454) 616388

If you have a comment or suggestion, then please do contact us.

Tesco Sport for Schools & Clubs
We know from your many letters of thanks that we’ve received over the years, that our scheme brings communities together. Everyone gets involved: children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbours, club members as well as parents and teachers of course! Your support is important to us and we aim to provide as much information as possible about how you can help the children in your community keep fit. So please keep collecting the vouchers which you can hand in directly to Olveston School.

Document Viewers

You may find you are unable to view some of the documents on this site. Click on the relevant link(s) below and follow the instructions to install the viewer(s).

PowerPoint Viewer
This program lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. This viewer also supports opening password-protected PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer. Click the link above to download and install.

Adobe (Acrobat) Reader
Download Adobe Reader software to more view, print and search PDF documents, online as well as offline, from your home or office.

Funky Punk - Music and design
Funky Punk is a music coaching service based in Thornbury and is run by Daniel Budd. Since Easter, he has been working at our School taking music lessons for years 3, 4, 5 & 6 which have proved very popular. As well as taking KS2 music lessons Dan is also an experienced guitar coach and currently teaches over 50 local children both in schools and privately. The ethos of Funky Punk's training is to use methods and material which are already popular within the youth culture and therefore to ensure music is seen as relevant, informative and most of all fun!

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Windows Media player
Windows Media Player 11 offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video & pictures. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go. Designed to work with all editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and can also be used to restore Windows Media Player and related technologies on editions of Windows Vista.