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Contents<br />

<strong>September</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

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35<br />

46<br />

73<br />

75<br />

84<br />

84<br />

SMOOTH MOVES<br />

Maggie Alderson’s property picks<br />

NOTEBOOK<br />

The latest news and events<br />

OFF THE SCALE<br />

We take a look <strong>inside</strong> the<br />

impressive Bayham Hall<br />

GET THE LOOK<br />

Style it like Bayham<br />

PAINT EFFECTS<br />

Some of the brightest artwork<br />

on display in a gallery near you<br />

A PEBBLE’S THROW<br />

A stunning renovation<br />

in Sandgate<br />

113<br />

118<br />

127<br />

129<br />

133<br />

136<br />

MOODBOARD:<br />

BURN BABY BURN<br />

Everything you need to create<br />

your perfect feature fire<br />

OFF DUTY<br />

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with a utilitarian edge<br />

ON THE HUNT<br />

Rebecca Cuffe edits men’s accessories<br />

POST SUMMER HAIR SOS<br />

Josephine Fairley comes<br />

to the rescue<br />

HEAL HEADACHES<br />

Henrietta Norton gives<br />

her holistic tips to stop<br />

head pain in its tracks<br />

144<br />

151<br />

157<br />

165<br />

166<br />

118<br />

THE FOREVER PLANTS<br />

Jo Arnell takes a look at<br />

successful succulents<br />

A CHANGING CLIMATE<br />

Jennifer Stuart-Smith finds out<br />

how gardeners are adapting to<br />

extreme weather conditions<br />

WHAT’S ON<br />

Your guide for what to<br />

do in <strong>September</strong><br />

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FABLES FROM THE FARM<br />

Jane Howard’s latest instalment<br />

from Coopers Farm<br />

107<br />

109<br />

GET THE LOOK<br />

Pebble Shore’s interior inspiration<br />

PRIME LOCATION<br />

How Phil and Sam Cornish<br />

converted an old farm<br />

building on their land<br />

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136<br />

SPOTTING THE SIGNS<br />

Sarah Maxwell discusses<br />

peri-menopause<br />

EATING GREEN<br />

Jo Arnell’s take on flavourful<br />

vegan recipes<br />

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Despite pre-nuptial agreements still not technically being binding in English law,<br />

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everything “celebrity”, but are they for the rest of us?<br />

The answer is yes - sometimes!<br />

Couples for whom they may be<br />

helpful, include professional couples<br />

without children who choose to lead<br />

financially separate lives, older couples<br />

contemplating second marriages<br />

who wish to ringfence assets for<br />

their children and those where the<br />

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investment.<br />

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will be binding? In short, you can’t, as<br />

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courts as long as certain safeguards<br />

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access to legal advice, fully understand<br />

the terms of the agreement and that<br />

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your wedding, not least because that<br />

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both, but more importantly, to give<br />

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Family dynamics are shifting which<br />

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Q&A with Systemic Constellation<br />

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What is Systemic Constellation?<br />

It’s a therapeutic model developed by German philosopher and psychotherapist<br />

Bert Hellinger. It recognises that individuals are part of ‘systems’ – within<br />

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Knowing this allows for healing, for shifts or movement to occur.<br />

What happens in a session?<br />

It’s hard to explain. It’s an embodied and experience-based process. Usually,<br />

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various aspects. Really, what we’re doing is tapping into the ‘Knowing<br />

Field’ so that underlying dynamics and entanglements can surface.<br />

Can you explain further?<br />

Maybe an example will help. I had a client who had a difficult relationship<br />

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Karen’s Concept Facelift and Necklift<br />

Story One Year On From Surgery<br />

Karen came along to an open evening<br />

when Bella Vou first opened and felt<br />

absolutely bowled over by the clinic; ‘I<br />

was so impressed, I knew then that if I<br />

were to ever have anything done it would be at<br />

Bella Vou, especially after having met Amir and<br />

the team.’<br />

‘The concept facelift really sold itself to me - no<br />

general anaesthetic and such a quick recovery<br />

time - I knew there and then, yes, that’s for me.<br />

I just knew that when the time was right, that’s<br />

what I would have done.’<br />

She didn’t feel ready for the procedure at that<br />

point, but a few years later Karen noticed<br />

(particularly when looking back on recent<br />

photos) that her face had aged, so she decided<br />

to come back to the clinic. ‘I was starting to<br />

get jowls and was just looking older. That’s<br />

when I thought: now is the time to do<br />

something about it.’<br />

Karen could now really notice her ageing skin<br />

which motivated her to make the changes<br />

necessary for a younger and more attractive<br />

looking face. She decided the time was right to<br />

obtain a fresher look; ‘I felt like I was looking<br />

tired and worn out. My skin was sagging,<br />

especially around my neck and jawline and I felt<br />

that I was really starting to look my age!’<br />

So, as a 60th Birthday present to herself,<br />

Karen plucked up the courage to come in for<br />

a consultation which she felt went really well.<br />

‘The atmosphere at Bella Vou was friendly and<br />

personal. The staff were all supportive and<br />

caring. They made you feel as if you were their<br />

only patient, rather than just another client on<br />

their list - nothing was too much trouble.’<br />

Karen loved the fact that she was designated<br />

her own patient coordinator who ensured<br />

she was clear about the procedure. ‘After<br />

my initial consultation with my surgeon, Amir<br />

(who answered all of my questions) my patient<br />

coordinator went through everything with me<br />

again.’ Surgery can feel like a big deal, so<br />

being sure the procedure is right for you is really<br />

important. ‘My patient coordinator covered<br />

everything. Price – dates – what to expect –<br />

aftercare – everything. She actually wanted<br />

me to go away and think about it, but I was so<br />

excited I booked my surgery there and then!’<br />

Karen was thrilled that the surgery could be<br />

carried out under local anaesthetic so that she<br />

would have a fast recovery. ‘Because of the way<br />

Amir and the concept facelift had come across<br />

at the open evening I was very confident<br />

about the procedure.’<br />

Surgery can be quite nerve-wracking for some,<br />

but Karen said ‘I wasn’t in the least bit nervous<br />

- I watched the whole operation on the Bella<br />

Vou website too.’ She was totally prepared and<br />

aware of every detail.<br />

The day came for Karen’s procedure; ‘I needn’t<br />

have worried. Stevie, my patient coordinator,<br />

took me down to theatre and Amir and the<br />

theatre nurse made me feel at ease straight<br />

away. I was awake the entire time and it<br />

appeared to be very casual; we were chatting<br />

and the radio was on - it was better than being<br />

at the dentist! The most uncomfortable part were<br />

the initial injections. After that I couldn’t feel a<br />

thing throughout the entire procedure. Although<br />

it took a long time, I was totally relaxed as Amir<br />

was always talking, checking how I felt and<br />

explaining what he was doing.’<br />

‘Amir was a wonderful surgeon. He<br />

was warm, considerate, caring and<br />

supportive - he was just amazing.’<br />

Karen was surprised at how fab she looked<br />

straight after surgery; ‘A friend of mine had a<br />

facelift elsewhere and she looked like she’d been<br />

run over by a steam roller! I didn’t have any<br />

bruising or swelling, I just looked a bit puffy. To<br />

be honest, apart from the fact I wasn’t wearing<br />

any make up, I could have gone shopping<br />

straight away afterwards and no one would have<br />

given me a second look - it was that amazing. I<br />

didn’t, of course. My husband collected me and<br />

I went straight home to rest for a couple of days<br />

following the advice I was given.’<br />

‘There was no pain - nothing at all - during<br />

surgery, or after. I had it done on Tuesday and<br />

I took it easy until the weekend and then I was<br />

fine. In fact, I didn’t have to take it easy, I chose<br />

to take it easy. I could have easily gone back to<br />

work on Monday - less than a week.’<br />

Karen describes her follow-up care as reassuring;<br />

‘I could ring Stevie, or the clinic if I was worried<br />

about anything, but I just came back a week later<br />

for my first check up and everything was fine.’<br />

It’s so important to know you’ll be cared for<br />

after surgery too.<br />

‘My husband, family and friends were all very<br />

supportive when I decided to go for it and they<br />

were totally blown away with the outcome.<br />

Everyone was so impressed. My work colleague<br />

decided that she’s definitely going to have<br />

it done herself.’<br />

‘It was definitely worth it and I would recommend<br />

anyone to go for it! I feel so much more like<br />

me again! My life hasn’t changed, but I have.<br />

I definitely feel better about the way I look.<br />

Bearing in mind I teach 13-18 year olds, how<br />

I look is important to the students I teach. My<br />

friends and family keep asking if I have changed<br />

my hair, lost weight or used a different make up –<br />

they know something has changed but they can’t<br />

put their finger on it!’<br />

After having the Concept Facelift and Necklift,<br />

Karen has noticed improvements in her day to<br />

day life. ‘It has been such a positive experience.<br />

I feel so much more confident about my<br />

appearance! I don’t look tired anymore, I look<br />

really good for my age! Maybe even looking<br />

younger!’ If you have a procedure in mind, why<br />

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won’t be disappointed!’<br />

For your complimentary consultation call<br />

01892 257357<br />

hello@bellavou.co.uk<br />

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Before you consider any procedure you should<br />

consult with a physician to check your medical<br />

suitability. The above information is only<br />

brief overview and typical of most patients’<br />

experiences. Errors and omissions excepted.<br />

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how difficulties may arise.<br />

Of course, realistically it<br />

is rarely possible to be<br />

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example if one child receives<br />

the family home and the other<br />

receives a share portfolio.<br />

The family home may have a<br />

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misunderstanding and false<br />

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What to do and see near you this month<br />

Cash<br />

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Attic<br />

Find out what your jewellery,<br />

collectables and other treasures<br />

are really worth on Thursday 19<br />

<strong>September</strong>. From 10am to 2pm<br />

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day at the lovely Hotel du Vin in<br />

Tunbridge Wells. Dreweatts is a<br />

leading UK auctioneer of everything<br />

from fine art to live steam and<br />

model engineering, and at this<br />

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jewellery, silver, watches, antiques<br />

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It is Leeds Castle’s 900th anniversary and they are celebrating with a<br />

spectacular floral extravaganza, for which <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> is proud to be<br />

media partner. From Saturday 14 to Thursday 19 <strong>September</strong> the Castle<br />

will be filled with beautiful blooms, in fantastical and fabulous displays<br />

which you can find spilling out of rooms along the visitor route. This<br />

year’s line up of designers is an exciting collection of award-winning<br />

names from all over the world. Morgan Douglas Nuth from Ascot,<br />

Dennis Kneepkens from the Netherlands and Dr. Solomon<br />

Leong from Hong Kong will be joined by new additions such<br />

as Dutch floral artist Conny van der Westerlaken and one<br />

of Australia’s leading floral designers, Matthew Landers.<br />

It is sure to be an inspiration to all flower and garden<br />

enthusiasts so the castle team has also set up a festival<br />

marquee, stalls on the Pavilion Lawn selling beautiful<br />

flowers, David Austin roses and garden accessories,<br />

as well as a programme of demonstrations, garden<br />

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GET CRAFTY<br />

Craft In Focus is coming to Hever Castle &<br />

Gardens this month. From Thursday 5 to Sunday<br />

8 <strong>September</strong>, this contemporary craft fair will be<br />

showcasing some of the UK’s finest designer makers’<br />

work in the award-winning Hever Castle Gardens. Set<br />

in 125 acres of glorious grounds with the backdrop of<br />

the historic castle, the fair will have demonstrations,<br />

live music, a fabulous adventure playground, a Water<br />

Maze and a 100 year old Yew Maze. craftinfocus.com<br />

A wealth of<br />

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at the Hilton Hotel, Maidstone.<br />

The informal seminars include<br />

lunch, and an opportunity to<br />

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International Garden Photographer of<br />

the Year (IGPOTY) and National Trust at<br />

Sissinghurst Castle Garden have launched a new<br />

free-to-enter award for all ages, and this month is<br />

your last shot to get snapping as the closing date is<br />

Sunday 6 October. Capture the enduring beauty<br />

of the gardens and estate and the legacy of Vita<br />

Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to win a<br />

spot for your photography in an exclusive<br />

stand-alone exhibition at Sissinghurst<br />

from Friday 25 October.<br />

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Rye Arts Festival offers sixty world class events in<br />

a packed fortnight from Saturday 14 to Saturday<br />

28 <strong>September</strong>. With classical, jazz and folk music,<br />

literary talks and top speakers, drama and film,<br />

walks and much more the beautiful Cinque Ports<br />

town will be buzzing as it becomes the South<br />

East’s cultural capital. ryeartsfestival.org.uk<br />

Food fest<br />

Great food and music by the<br />

sea. Hastings Seafood and Wine<br />

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showcasing the excellent quality<br />

and variety of fish that Hastings<br />

has to offer. It runs daily from<br />

11am until 6pm on Saturday<br />

14 and Sunday 15 <strong>September</strong>.<br />

Wristbands cost £2.50 in advance<br />

from the Hastings Tourist<br />

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gate. Under 18s go free.<br />

Puppetry isn’t all Punch and Judy anymore and this festival<br />

celebrates it in all its many forms – object theatre, marionnettes,<br />

shadow play, kites – from a 17 foot Arbor to a mini marvel of<br />

a table-top show for an audience of eight, this festival is fully<br />

equipped to open your eyes to the many facets and faces of modern<br />

puppetry. The festival runs from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 October at<br />

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Previous pages: In the sitting room, Jaime has kept the colour palette to neutral greys and browns with white detailing. The<br />

double aspect windows take centre stage, with beautiful views out over the Bayham gardens Above: When Jaime and Justin moved<br />

their family down from London they also brought much of their art collection with them: ‘Pony Pin Up’ photographs by Julian<br />

Wolkenstein hang on the back wall behind a spacious – and specially designed – dining table<br />

It’s pretty difficult to turn a stately home into a<br />

space fit for a modern family. It’s something that<br />

has eluded most of the country’s landowners,<br />

whose houses have been, in the large, converted to<br />

flats or wedding venues. However, one family in Kent<br />

might have just managed to achieve what, for many,<br />

seemed impossible. They have transformed a very large<br />

and very Victorian edifice into a cool, contemporary<br />

(and very warm) home that is entirely fit for purpose<br />

– it just happens to come with its own ballroom!<br />

Justin and Jaime Cooke live in Bayham Hall with their<br />

three children Alberta, Gibson and Monty, as well as several<br />

pets, including a growing collection of chickens, who have<br />

just moved into their new home underneath the kids’<br />

tree house. I am standing with Jaime in her huge family<br />

kitchen. Dressed in cutting edge sportswear and baseball<br />

cap, Jaime has just rushed back home from teaching a<br />

spin class at her new fitness boutique, SPN in Tunbridge<br />

Wells. I am not sure if the original owner of Bayham Hall,<br />

the Marquess of Camden, could have envisaged what<br />

his pile would have looked like over 150 years later, but<br />

Jaime and Justin have definitely shepherded the hall firmly<br />

into the 21st century – and things are looking good.<br />

Although the house now seems to be the most wonderful<br />

home for a growing family, it wasn’t a destination that<br />

Jaime ever thought she was going to undertake. The<br />

couple had originally bought the hall in 2003. Justin was<br />

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This page: The kitchen had once been the library. Jaime stripped back<br />

the tooled leather wallpaper and pulled down 1970s partitions and stud<br />

walls to bring back the sense of scale from the original floor plan. The<br />

room’s original features include a wonderful ornate plaster ceiling, huge<br />

windows and original shutters and an impressive veined marble fireplace<br />

was running her fashion brand MUKS. They had no<br />

children and were living a carefree and urban life,<br />

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London. The idea of becoming chatelaine to a large<br />

country estate in Kent was not on Jaime’s agenda.<br />

So it came as a bit of surprise when nine years and<br />

two children later, the couple decided to pick up<br />

the project they had begun at Bayham and move in.<br />

Having originally bought the West Wing, a new life<br />

and two years of extensive renovations beckoned.<br />

“I never thought I would leave London. I had<br />

moved to the UK from Canada to be in London,<br />

and so it was a bit of a shock to be honest.<br />

But now it all seems so perfect and I couldn’t<br />

wish for a better place to raise my family.”<br />

The link to London was something the original<br />

owner of Bayham Hall, Lord Camden, was also<br />

rather obsessed with. So much so that he famously<br />

built a road from the house all the way to London. If<br />

you have ever been to Bayham Street in Camden <br />

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The distinctive acid florals of House of Hackney can be seen on standard<br />

lamps and cushions throughout the house. “We love it!” says Jaime, “Justin<br />

and I buy rolls of their fabric, it’s a bit of an addiction.”<br />

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This page: Jaime’s colour palette of neutral whites and greys has allowed Bayham Hall’s original features to shine through<br />

Above left: Kent artist Sandy Dooley’s vibrant paintings hang on the walls of the sitting room<br />

then that is where you might have found him.<br />

We begin our tour of Bayham in Jaime’s kitchen.<br />

Like every home, it’s the heart of the house yet like<br />

everything in this particular home, it’s on a vast scale.<br />

The room had once been the library, complete with<br />

tooled leather wallpaper. Jaime stripped it back, as<br />

she had in the rest of the house, pulling down 1970s<br />

partitions and stud walls, lifting old carpets and<br />

bringing back the sense of scale from the original floor<br />

plan. As with the rest of the house she kept the colour<br />

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This page: One of the most impressive spaces<br />

in the house is the double height inner hallway<br />

around which a carved wooden staircase floats<br />

palette to neutral whites and greys, allowing the room’s<br />

original features: a wonderful ornate plaster ceiling, huge<br />

windows and original shutters and an impressive veined<br />

marble fireplace with gilded overmantle, do the talking.<br />

Jaime and Justin commissioned a series of handmade<br />

floor to ceiling cupboards to match the panelling of<br />

the shutters that provide the majority of the room’s<br />

storage, whilst a free-standing kitchen sits elegantly<br />

in the middle of the room. The stone of the fireplace<br />

has been subtly mirrored with a grey granite across<br />

the worktops. Kitchen cabinets have been painted in<br />

a soft dove grey to complement the tops and a darker<br />

grey picks up the detailing on the room’s painted<br />

cornice. Combining style with practicality, the huge<br />

dining table was designed especially for the space.<br />

“One of the issues with owning a place this size is that we<br />

can’t buy much off the peg,” laughs Jaime. “So we got the<br />

designers to come down and see the space for themselves<br />

and they made the table to fit perfectly. Luckily we’re a big<br />

family and are always having people over, so even though<br />

it’s massive, it actually works well for us.”<br />

Around the table are a series of Kartell Masters chairs by<br />

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This page: An enormous antler chandelier hangs down from the<br />

ceiling, whilst vibrant artworks and soft furnishing contrast with<br />

the white walls that bounce light from the hall’s huge windows<br />

into every nook Right: A cathedral-like stained glass window<br />

dapples the hallway with softly coloured light<br />

as we will see, this is just the baby version.<br />

One of the most impressive spaces in the house is<br />

the double height inner hallway around which a carved<br />

wooden staircase floats. A cathedral-like stained glass<br />

window dapples the area with softly coloured light.<br />

“One of the first things we did, when we moved in,”<br />

says Jaime, as we sit and stare up at the enormous big<br />

daddy antler chandelier that hangs from the ceiling,<br />

“was to have a heat engineer come round. You can paint<br />

walls and rip up old carpets, but the one thing that was<br />

a major issue in the house was the cost of the heating.<br />

When we first moved in we were hit with a monthly oil<br />

bill of thousands, and that was just for the West Wing.<br />

We had to sort out the heating before we could move the<br />

kids in, so we sunk a geo-thermal ground source for the<br />

heating and put in solar panels for the hot water. We had<br />

to put in chimney balloons to all the fireplaces and get<br />

permission for secondary glazing, including the stained<br />

glass window. It was losing so much heat it was like <br />

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This page: The upper landing acts like a minstrels’ gallery<br />

overlooking the hall below. Jaime and Justin added glass barriers<br />

to make the space more family-friendly<br />

“One of the first things we did, when<br />

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a heat engineer come round. You can<br />

paint walls and rip up old carpets but<br />

the one thing that was a major issue in<br />

the house was the cost of the heating.”<br />

a money sponge.” And they were right to do so. It’s the<br />

lack of all those draughty dark corners, synonymous with<br />

stately homes, that is one of the key elements that has<br />

truly transformed Bayham Hall beyond recognition.<br />

We walk up the sumptuous stairs and find ourselves<br />

on the upper landing that acts like a minstrels’ gallery<br />

overlooking the hall below. It could make you slightly<br />

giddy. Jaime spots me peering down. “That is exactly<br />

why we had to put some glass barriers up the staircase,<br />

with three young children it was a no-brainer. Lord<br />

Camden certainly didn’t have a six year old running <br />

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Above: Huge gilded chandeliers accentuate the soaring ceilings. One of the joys of living in Bayham<br />

Hall is that there is such as great sense of space that wonderful vistas appear at every turn<br />

around when he designed this!” she laughs. Again, it’s<br />

the scale of the place that has dictated much of Jaime’s<br />

decorating choices. The landing is so wide it easily eats<br />

up several sofas, two half-moon hall tables, mirrors,<br />

armchairs and two chandeliers. However, once again,<br />

it’s the clever touches that keep that sense of family,<br />

such as the rugs, plants and statement cushions.<br />

When Jaime and Justin moved their family down from<br />

London they also brought much of their art collection<br />

with them. That and an obsession with the fabric company<br />

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to a couple who have applied the very same approach<br />

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florals can be seen on standard lamps and cushions<br />

throughout the house. “We love it!” says Jaime, “Justin<br />

and I buy rolls of their fabric, it’s a bit of an addiction.”<br />

One of the other themes that also peppers many of the<br />

rooms and hallways is taxidermy. As a Canadian, Jaime is<br />

very un-squeamish about it. “I grew up with moose heads<br />

and antlers everywhere, so it’s something that is part<br />

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Jaime has taken a love of travel and high-end hotels to create a master bedroom<br />

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This page: The couple’s luxurious bedroom suites feature chic<br />

four-poster beds and sumptuously soft carpet<br />

of what makes a home to me.” It is also one of the few<br />

motifs that the original Lord Camden might have once<br />

featured in the house and, of course, it works majestically.<br />

The sitting room is yet another case of how furniture<br />

and fabric have been employed to create a liveable<br />

space. As with the rest of the house, Jaime has kept the<br />

colour palette to neutral greys and browns with white<br />

detailing, Again, she has stripped the floors, letting the<br />

double aspect windows take centre stage, the gardens<br />

of Bayham providing the most wonderful landscape<br />

which is mirrored in the artwork by local artist Sandy<br />

Dooley. The accessories of rugs and cushions are<br />

another area where Jaime has ramped up the colour.<br />

One of the joys of living in such a house as Bayham Hall<br />

is that there is such a great sense of space that wonderful<br />

vistas appear at every turn. From the kitchen to the living<br />

rooms, to the upstairs landings, even though the house<br />

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This page: Like the rest of the house, the neutral tones used to<br />

decorate the bedrooms are the perfect backdrop for Jaime and<br />

Justin’s eclectic collection of furniture and artworks<br />

atmosphere. None more so than the bedrooms, where<br />

Jaime has taken a love of travel and high-end hotels to<br />

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would happily move into and never leave. Luxurious<br />

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the touches of luxury within. The master bathroom is<br />

so spacious that the walk-in shower and roll top bath<br />

just disappear as you look out onto the canopy of green<br />

trees that surround you. A better place to escape and<br />

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Jaime and Justin have managed to pull a house, designed<br />

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This page: In the airy and bright open-plan living<br />

space Barefloors Ltd sanded layers of thick black<br />

paint off the floors to bring them back to the<br />

original wood<br />

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greeting us with knowing smiles, are getting<br />

used to a certain reaction from visitors as they<br />

walk in through the tasteful, but modest, front<br />

door and are met with: ‘Oh wow! The sea!<br />

The view!’ Directly in front of us it seems,<br />

a fisherman tends his lobster pots from his<br />

small boat, bobbing gently on the shimmering<br />

water. The uninterrupted elevated view of<br />

shore, sea and sky knocks you for about six<br />

dozen and is hard to look away from.<br />

Nothing can compete – visually, or even<br />

materially with the elemental forces of nature –<br />

something this beachside building found out to its<br />

cost early on; it has had a troubled, but interesting<br />

past. It started life at the end of the 19th century<br />

as a convalescent home for families from London<br />

to retreat to, and by 1899 it became a hotel called<br />

The Grosvenor. Kelly shows me a photograph<br />

of the original hotel building, pointing out the<br />

central section that is now the house. Not long<br />

after The Grosvenor was built there was a


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landslip in Sandgate and the two wings of the hotel collapsed,<br />

to be rebuilt as separate properties – and leaving the middle<br />

part to limp along as a semi-detached house. Without<br />

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the unsupported gable end of the house soon began leaning<br />

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double height sun room, that was attached to the front of the<br />

building in the 1970s, also hung dangerously in the balance.<br />

It was at this precarious point in its history that Robey<br />

and Kelly rode valiantly to the rescue and placed the<br />

whole building on a firmer footing. Several other buyers,<br />

including a developer were interested, but in the end<br />

– call it fate, serendipity, or even a game of ‘property<br />

chicken’ – all the other offers fell by the wayside, perhaps<br />

prompted by the fact that the house was about to do the<br />

same. Robey and Kelly were not at all put off by the state<br />

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house. During the makeovers the couple discovered that<br />

they really enjoyed the process of transforming unloved<br />

buildings and breathing new life into unpromising wrecks.<br />

At the mere mention of old swirly carpets, Kelly’s face<br />

lights up. “Give us something really humble and we’ll just<br />

love it,” she laughs. “The more it smells the better!”<br />

This particular smelly old house needed stripping<br />

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This page: Sliding glass doors lead out from<br />

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This page: The precarious sun<br />

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This page: The dimensions of the spaces change as you move upstairs into a huge landing area, complete with an enormous<br />

chandelier salvaged from the Brighton Pavilion<br />

The architect they chose for the extension is another<br />

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For privacy in the evenings, when the back of the house<br />

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The Italian Doimo kitchen is streamlined and understated,<br />

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com. Robey has revamped an old desk by the lobby and<br />

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the couple’s ingenuity and ability to combine different<br />

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nicely to match in with the wood from<br />

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the walls, Urban Obsession for the<br />

woodwork and Pebble Shore for the<br />

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makes for a calm, natural backdrop.<br />

No need to feature queasy seaside<br />

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the windows – three of the bedrooms<br />

face out towards the horizon –<br />

and one even has a porthole.<br />

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huge landing area, complete with<br />

an enormous chandelier salvaged<br />

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Above: Even in the smallest of the four bedrooms, the double height ceilings bring an air of grandeur to this<br />

floor and echoes of the original hotel<br />

not one, but two false ceilings.<br />

The doors had all been replaced with MDF so<br />

the couple had first to source and then re-instate<br />

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“Workshop Number 29 are really good at<br />

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in particular,” says Kelly. “They helped us to<br />

find the wardrobe doors in the bedroom. We<br />

have left them exactly as they were found, with<br />

the original blue paint coming through.”<br />

This effect is echoed in one of the other<br />

bedrooms, which retains its original wooden tongue<br />

and groove cladding, apparently painted a fetching<br />

bright pink gloss with a green undercoat. “We<br />

started to sand it off,” says Kelly, “but liked the<br />

effect of leaving some of the green on the wood<br />

underneath, so we didn’t sand it down completely.”<br />

Pebbles are another repeated motif, tying<br />

in not just with the location and house<br />

name, but also echoed in the garden and<br />

across the roof of the extension, where<br />

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There is current planning legislation called ‘permitted<br />

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past friends and neighbours and using the skills – and<br />

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Did the fact that the property was intended to be used as a<br />

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these will be needed from the outset, because you do not<br />

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plastered. Consider getting in a lighting specialist to advise,<br />

otherwise go through each space considering what electrical<br />

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2. Selection of fixtures and fittings. Make sure you keep<br />

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of your fixtures and fittings. You do not want the classic<br />

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Celebrating creativity ● Preparing for adult life ● Neurodiversity


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WT <strong>Education</strong> Supplement<br />

FREWEN<br />

COLLEGE<br />

21<br />

The Dyslexia School<br />

Since 1910<br />

Cover image: Manor House School, Bookham, Senior School<br />

Production of ‘Barnum’. Photograph courtesy of PhotoViva<br />

Contents<br />

7 ROOM TO GROW<br />

How to help your child<br />

transition smoothly<br />

from primary to<br />

secondary school<br />

9 WORD PLAY<br />

The languages which<br />

are currently proving<br />

most popular amongst<br />

pupils<br />

13 JOIN OUR CLUB<br />

We delve into the rich<br />

variety of after school<br />

activities on offer<br />

17 ExPRESS YOURSELF<br />

Manor House School<br />

gets creative<br />

18 MAKING SENSE OF<br />

THE WORLD<br />

How politics is<br />

addressed in the<br />

classroom<br />

21 ON THE CASE<br />

The coolest stationery<br />

23 HEADS DOWN<br />

Hilary Wilce<br />

gives her tips for<br />

successful revision<br />

25 BEYOND THE<br />

CLASSROOM<br />

Life after school<br />

29 NEURODIVERSITY<br />

How schools are<br />

recognising and<br />

helping children with<br />

neurological differences<br />

31 HEALING HELP<br />

Play therapist Alexa<br />

Craven explains why<br />

she set up her<br />

company, Caboose<br />

34 COURSEWORK<br />

Adult education<br />

courses across the Weald<br />

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Frewen<br />

Prep<br />

School<br />

Senior<br />

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School<br />

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Sixth<br />

Form<br />

Frewen College is a leading Day and Boarding<br />

School for girls and boys aged 7-19 with Dyslexia<br />

and Dyspraxia. We are proud to be different:<br />

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Winner of the BDA’s<br />

‘Best Dyslexia-Friendly School’ 2018<br />

All teachers have specialist<br />

dyslexia qualifications<br />

Assistive Technology is used<br />

throughout the school<br />

GCSE 9-4 exam grades and ‘pupil<br />

progress’ increased for the<br />

4th consecutive year<br />

OPEN MORNING<br />

Thursday 26th <strong>September</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

Email: office@frewencollege.co.uk<br />

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Independent day school<br />

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01580 211273<br />

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WT <strong>Education</strong> Supplement<br />

Room to Grow<br />

Steven Winter, Deputy Head of Bethany School, explains the steps you can<br />

take to help your child transition from primary to secondary school<br />

“<br />

I<br />

don’t remember my first day at senior school, but for<br />

my children it was a very big deal indeed,” says Francie<br />

Healy, Headmaster of Bethany School in Kent. He has<br />

wide experience of supporting pupils – including his own<br />

three children – through the transition to senior school.<br />

Through the autumn term, parents will no doubt be<br />

considering the next step for children in Year 6. Those<br />

relocating may be moving their child(ren) to a new school<br />

at other points within the year. Aside from obvious anxieties<br />

about new teachers and a new group of friends – and for<br />

some pupils a move to a new country – pupils moving from<br />

primary school often find it difficult to adapt to needing<br />

to navigate around the school during the day, instead of<br />

staying in one classroom, or to the longer school day.<br />

At Bethany School, the numbers of new Year 7 pupils<br />

joining us this year are particularly buoyant. With new<br />

pupils coming from a wide variety of schools, a great<br />

deal of thought is given to making the settling in process<br />

as easy as possible. However, pupils do join in other<br />

year groups – and occasionally at other points during<br />

the school year – and all are given personalised support<br />

to ensure that they settle in as quickly as possible.<br />

The following tips come from our experience in helping<br />

to support young people with one of the most significant<br />

transitions that they will face in their young lives:<br />

1Involve your child in the process of choosing their new<br />

school – take time to speak to them about what they<br />

want from a new school. Do they want to remain with<br />

friends or have a new challenge; or is it important for them<br />

to have particular needs met? Give them the opportunity<br />

to accompany you to Open Mornings and on individual<br />

tours so that they too can make an informed choice.<br />

2Grasp the opportunity for your child to take part in<br />

taster sessions or days to help with the orientation<br />

process. At Bethany School, pupils in Year 5 are offered<br />

the chance to join us for a Creative <strong>Education</strong> Day and<br />

then, in Year 6, we offer them a series of five Masterclasses<br />

in a range of subjects and activities, including High<br />

Ropes, Music and DT to support with the transition.<br />

3Take part in all induction opportunities for pupils and<br />

parents. At Bethany, we offer places for Year 7 entry<br />

in December and the first such induction opportunity is<br />

a team building morning for all those who have accepted<br />

a place in March, this is quickly followed by ‘Getting to<br />

know Bethany Day’ in June for parents and pupils and a<br />

final induction for new pupils in August, which includes an<br />

introduction to boarding for those who will be boarders.<br />

4Create a network of new parents to support the<br />

development of future friendships – one of the keys<br />

to success with this transition is to minimise the anxiety<br />

around making friends. Many parents who attend ‘Getting<br />

to know Bethany Day’ use the opportunity to connect<br />

with fellow new parents to set up play dates and sleepovers<br />

for their children to get to know each other and create<br />

some shared bonds before they start s chool together.<br />

5Be mindful that your children may find this<br />

transition exhausting. Whether that is finding a<br />

new classroom to new subjects or meeting lots of new<br />

people and remembering their names. Ensure that you<br />

support your child by managing their rest, especially at<br />

weekends, if necessary, reducing their extra-curricular<br />

activities for a short period so that they are fresh for the<br />

start of each new week with their homework done!<br />

“At Bethany, we put the child at the heart of every<br />

decision, and that is particularly evident when it comes<br />

to welcoming new pupils. Our approach ensures that<br />

the pupil settles in quickly, makes friends and makes<br />

good academic progress, even if they struggled at their<br />

previous school. Developing and implementing best<br />

practice in helping children adjust to school life is just<br />

one of the reasons why Bethany School is so successful<br />

in inspiring individual excellence in every pupil.”<br />

Francie Healy, Headmaster of Bethany School<br />

bethanyschool.org.uk<br />

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AGE 0-3 AGE 0-3 AGE 3-11 AGE 11-18


WT <strong>Education</strong> Supplement<br />

Word Play<br />

Which languages are students choosing to study? And how are<br />

they being applied to life after school? WT finds out<br />

Gilly Johnson, Deputy Principal (Academic) at<br />

Buckswood School, talks us through some of the<br />

school’s language success stories to show the doors<br />

that a second – or third! – language can open<br />

Our most popular languages are Mandarin,<br />

Spanish, German and French, but<br />

we also teach many ‘mother tongue’<br />

languages for our international pupils.<br />

Studying a language gives pupils the confidence to<br />

take their first step into another culture. Being able to<br />

communicate in a new language opens so many doors.<br />

It may give someone a lifelong love of the country and<br />

the language they’ve studied. They might choose to study<br />

in this country too. I fell in love with French at school<br />

and languages became part of my life and subsequent<br />

career. France always feels like home to me, even now.<br />

Being able to communicate in other languages opens<br />

many doors; journalism, business and commerce,<br />

international relations, international law, politics,<br />

translation, interpreting, etc. One of our (British) ex-pupils<br />

studied French, Spanish and Serbo-Croat at Buckswood<br />

and went on to study interpreting at the University of<br />

Poitiers, in France. In his ‘year-out’ work placement at<br />

the French Embassy in Uruguay, his manager was so<br />

impressed with him that he recommended him for several<br />

jobs in business, in Uruguay, once he had finished his<br />

degree. It was here that our ex-pupil demonstrated his<br />

linguistic and cross-cultural knowledge, allowing him to<br />

complete an international project; something nobody<br />

had managed to do up to that point. At the age of 24,<br />

this young man is now an international project manager,<br />

overseeing projects in 20 countries, travelling first class<br />

everywhere he goes and earning a huge salary. In a global<br />

ecomony, languages are vital to international success.<br />

Our ex-pupils have gone on to study the language<br />

they like best, or a combination of these. Languages<br />

are also studied alongside law, international law,<br />

politics, economics, film and media, marketing,<br />

PR, tourism, hospitality, journalism, oenology, art,<br />

architecture, international development, anthropology,<br />

geography, philosophy and, of course, teaching!<br />

buckswood.co.uk<br />

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At St Andrew’s Prep we encourage our pupils to build lines of<br />

character that help them be who they want to be.<br />

WHO THEY WILL BE STARTS HERE<br />

Visit our open mornings on 11 and 12 October <strong>2019</strong><br />

Book your place today<br />

www.standrewsprep.co.uk/press


WT <strong>Education</strong> Supplement<br />

Mrs Paola Sagastuy, Head of Languages at Ashford<br />

School, explains how making the decision to study a<br />

language opens up a world of opportunities for students<br />

At Ashford School we strongly believe in<br />

the value of learning languages, and so we<br />

encourage all of our pupils to learn one or two<br />

languages during their stay with us. We offer Spanish,<br />

French and German from Year 7 to A-Level.<br />

Because we care that our pupils love the languages that<br />

they are learning, and we believe in personal responsibility,<br />

pupils are offered a choice of languages from Year 7.<br />

We help them make an informed decision by offering<br />

them a rotation of each language in the first half of the<br />

year, and then ask them to choose two languages to go<br />

forward with. Pupils will learn these two languages until<br />

the end of Year 9, and when they make their language<br />

choices for GCSEs, they can continue with both languages<br />

or they can choose to focus on just one of them.<br />

Until recently, French was the more popular language<br />

choice, however this seems to have shifted in the last few<br />

years, with Spanish having the greatest uptake. Pupils often<br />

perceive German as the more ‘difficult’ language, and as such<br />

its popularity had dwindled somewhat. We have worked hard<br />

to change this perception, as there really isn’t any language<br />

that is easier or more difficult to learn in and of itself. In<br />

fact, German can often be easier for English speakers as<br />

it shares many word roots. This has now led to German<br />

coming in second in popularity with our upcoming cohorts.<br />

There is no denying that English has become the lingua<br />

franca for the modern world. This means that one can travel<br />

and work abroad if one can speak English. That being said,<br />

the experience of studying abroad is richer if the student<br />

has knowledge of the local language. As author Rita Mae<br />

Brown said, “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells<br />

you where its people come from and where they are going.”<br />

Learning a language is unlike learning other subjects. It<br />

is learning a skill; and skills are transferable. The executive<br />

function is enhanced in bi-lingual people, and decisionmaking<br />

and concentration are demonstrably better because<br />

of the constant need to choose the language spoken and<br />

suppress the one not needed. This is applicable to all<br />

areas of life – the cognitive benefits are countless!<br />

A-Level linguists go on to university to study a great<br />

variety of degrees. Language courses and translation and<br />

interpretation are the obvious ones, but linguists also make<br />

superb law students, because of their command of the<br />

intricacies of language; mathematicians, because logical<br />

and higher order thinking is necessary to learning foreign<br />

languages; and business and politics students, because they<br />

are good communicators. This is not a comprehensive<br />

list. People who speak more than one language have a<br />

better understanding of the world and its cultures, and<br />

therefore make excellent students and professionals.<br />

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We invite Year 9 and 10 girls and<br />

their parents to find out more at our<br />

Sixth Form<br />

Open Evening<br />

Wednesday 18 <strong>September</strong> at 5.45pm<br />

• 25 A Level subjects, taught in small groups by experts<br />

in their field (A Levels 2018: 31% A*, 86% A* - B)<br />

• Unique Professional Skills Programme preparing<br />

students for 21st Century employment<br />

• Bespoke Oxbridge, Medical and Veterinary School,<br />

US and World Top 50 university preparation<br />

• Vibrant co-curricular opportunities including<br />

lectures and seminars from leading<br />

national figures<br />

• Benenden Boarding: the ideal bridge<br />

between school and university<br />

• Bursary support available<br />

For further details contact The Registry, Benenden School:<br />

registry@benenden.school or 01580 240592<br />

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WT <strong>Education</strong> Supplement<br />

Join Our Club<br />

We explore the vast range of after-school activities<br />

on offer across schools in the South East<br />

Dulwich Prep Cranbrook<br />

At Dulwich Prep Cranbrook we look to ignite each child’s curiosity,<br />

reveal hidden talents and make sure all our children fulfil their<br />

extraordinary potential so our extra-curricular programme is<br />

designed to do just that! It is broad and deep, and designed to widen<br />

horizons, inspire and offer stretch. Dulwich Prep Cranbrook has a vast<br />

array of clubs, both during and after the school day (all included in fees).<br />

We are continually reviewing what we offer and embracing children’s<br />

suggestions. All children are actively encouraged to set up their own clubs<br />

if we don’t already offer something they want to do. Clubs run every<br />

day after school until 5.30pm. As well as clubs in all the major sports,<br />

Art, Drama and Music all feature strongly with clubs ranging from Rock<br />

School to Advanced Artists. Some of our more quirky offerings include:<br />

Little Stream (Years 1-4): New this year, Confidence Club, Mindfulness<br />

Colouring, Friendship Bracelet Club, Tug of War, Water Polo, Remote<br />

Control Cars, Lego, Glowfit – a Zumba-style class undertaken in the<br />

dark with glowsticks! Recent pop-up clubs have included – (child-led)<br />

Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Forest and the Harry Potter Play Club.<br />

Popular clubs in Upper School (Years 5-8) are: Coding Club, Girls’<br />

Cricket, Media Club, Yoga, Chess, Dulwich Entrepreneurs, Triathlon,<br />

Coding and Dulwich Outdoors.<br />

Club of the moment for children of all ages is Eco Club: Our Eco Club<br />

was set up by the children in Upper School. We are currently working<br />

towards the Eco Schools Green Flag Award and are hoping to become a<br />

single use plastic-free school. (Achieved in Nash House, our Early Years).<br />

During the holidays we run Dulwich Prep Chef School which culminates<br />

in a Bake Off, where families are invited for tea.<br />

dulwichprepcranbrook.org<br />

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What kind of after school clubs are on offer? A wide<br />

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What time do they run to? Our clubs run<br />

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What are the kind of clubs on offer? There is a wide<br />

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minutes and the senior School children, years 5-8, start<br />

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Do any activities take place at the weekend or during<br />

the school holidays? The school does not run any<br />

clubs during the weekends or holidays, although we<br />

have a number of members of staff that run various<br />

courses throughout the holidays at an extra cost.<br />

Is there an extra cost? Some of our clubs cost extra,<br />

but the majority of them are run by our amazing<br />

teachers at the school. Our teachers often have a<br />

passion for something outside of the subject they<br />

usually teach and so they enjoy spending time<br />

sharing their interest with the children in a club.<br />

What are the benefits of taking part in extra-curricular<br />

activities? The benefits of taking part in extra-curricular<br />

activities are enormous. From spending time with friends<br />

and doing something you really enjoy, to trying something<br />

new and pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.<br />

Whatever the reason is for joining a club at Marlborough<br />

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We want to offer a wide and varied clubs programme<br />

throughout the year and to give plenty of choice and<br />

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Let’s go outside!<br />

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‘Critical life skills such as leadership, teamwork, resilience,<br />

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performance back in the classroom.’<br />

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Express Yourself<br />

Manor House School, Bookham, shows how pupils and staff are<br />

living their School Value of ‘Creative and Collaborative’<br />

Founded in 1920, and soon to be celebrating its<br />

Centenary Year, Manor House School in Bookham<br />

provides girls with a happy and nurturing smaller<br />

school environment, encouraging excellent academic results<br />

through an individual approach to teaching and learning.<br />

Increasingly enjoying high levels of success in sport, pupils<br />

also benefit from many opportunities in the creative and<br />

expressive arts, with additional music, singing and drama<br />

lessons a popular choice. One of the school’s seven core<br />

values is ‘Creative and Collaborative’ and so it is no surprise<br />

that Manor House was shortlisted for an Independent<br />

Schools Award in the Creative and Expressive Arts in 2018.<br />

There is an extensive co-curricular enrichment programme<br />

every term with up to 50 extra-curricular clubs and<br />

activities operating at any one time. Girls are encouraged<br />

to seek out new experiences and try something different.<br />

Creative clubs are varied and include a Textiles Craft Club,<br />

Gifted and Talented Writing Club – which challenges<br />

girls to compose high quality writing on a competitive<br />

basis – and Bridge Club, as well as more traditional clubs,<br />

such as Drama Clubs, Prep and Senior Bands, Music<br />

Theory Club and Junior and Senior Orchestral Clubs.<br />

There is even a Creative iMedia Club where girls can<br />

learn computing and coding in a relaxed atmosphere.<br />

Art is a hugely popular creative subject that is taught<br />

across the School from Reception age. Girls are encouraged<br />

to work in a variety of materials, including paint, pencil,<br />

textiles, collage, clay, print-making, plaster and wire.<br />

Many of them choose to work big and the department<br />

prides itself on encouraging the girls to pursue their own<br />

strengths and enthusiasms, resulting in stimulating and<br />

diverse work at GCSE level. There are four art clubs – two<br />

for Preps, one for Seniors and one for GCSE students.<br />

Performing Arts is taught from Nursery up to GCSE,<br />

utilising the skills of specialist choreographer, Adrian<br />

Edmeades, who works in the West End and for CBBC.<br />

LAMDA lessons (London Academy of Music and Dramatic<br />

Art) lessons are taught as a co-curricular option and are<br />

now offered from Year 1 all the way up to Year 11. Almost<br />

a third of pupils at Manor House now take LAMDA.<br />

Examinations take place every year in the spring term, but<br />

LAMDA isn’t just about results, it’s also about the girls<br />

gaining confidence in themselves to perform in front of<br />

others, work with their peers, improve their speaking and<br />

listening skills and learn about poetry and a variety of<br />

playwrights. Not forgetting about having fun along the way!<br />

Sometimes the quietest and shyest of girls take<br />

LAMDA and really blossom over the year. For one<br />

pupil it can be finding the confidence to read aloud<br />

in class and be heard, and for another it can help<br />

to improve public speaking or interview skills.<br />

Additional music lessons are delivered throughout the<br />

school day in the facility of Meadow Cottage. Tuition is<br />

offered in over 18 instruments encouraging participation in<br />

school productions and the annual ‘Rock & Pop Concert’.<br />

A popular senior scholarships programme awards<br />

scholarships in Art, Drama and Music (in addition<br />

to Sport) effective at Year 7 and, most recently, new<br />

Year 3 scholarships for Academic and Music have<br />

been announced. These are effective from <strong>September</strong><br />

2020 (apply by mid-November <strong>2019</strong>). To enquire,<br />

contact admissions@manorhouseschool.org or visit<br />

manorhouseschool.org. The School’s next Open Morning<br />

is Saturday 5 October at 10am (registration applies).<br />

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Making Sense of the World<br />

Hilary Wilce looks at how politics is approached in the classroom<br />

As I write this, we have no idea where the country<br />

will be heading this autumn, and whatever your<br />

political views, you’ll probably agree that this is a<br />

time of greater uncertainty than most of us have seen before.<br />

Discussing national events over the summer, I’ve heard<br />

several young professionals bemoan the fact that they feel<br />

completely illiterate about how our democracy is set up<br />

and how national economies work. It’s not just that they<br />

don’t understand obscure things like quantitative easing<br />

or the prorogation of Parliament, but that they don’t even<br />

know what select committees do, or who sets the national<br />

interest rate. Their schooling didn’t encompass politics and<br />

economics, so they are scrabbling to get their heads round<br />

the things they now need to know in<br />

order to take informed decisions.<br />

Over many years as an education<br />

correspondent, I visited primary schools<br />

teaching basic money matters to five<br />

year olds, and secondary-level schools<br />

engaging teenagers in Parliamentarystyle<br />

debates, and was always struck<br />

by how enthusiastically children<br />

engaged with ‘real life’ learning. They<br />

could see the point. They knew it mattered to them.<br />

But I also visited less successful projects where teachers<br />

struggled to teach dry facts about local government<br />

and international trade agreements while students<br />

yawned and watched flies buzzing at the windows.<br />

Citizenship lessons are compulsory in state secondary<br />

schools (although not in academies), and can be offered by<br />

primary schools. The subject has been set up to teach pupils<br />

about how our government works, the rule of law, and the<br />

role of institutions and voluntary groups in running society,<br />

as well as about citizens’ rights and about international<br />

bodies such as the United Nations. This all sounds quite<br />

good, except that things on the ground are so patchy and<br />

“It’s absolutely vital<br />

that everyone has<br />

enough knowledge and<br />

understanding to make<br />

up their own mind about<br />

decisions of the day”<br />

poor that a House of Lords education committee last year<br />

described citizenship education as being in a “parlous state”.<br />

All sorts of things get in the way of it, including a<br />

shortage of trained teachers and the way in which the<br />

subject has recently got tangled up with the government’s<br />

drive to counter extremism among young people.<br />

Meanwhile, schools are being urgently asked to increase<br />

their personal and social education, to help counter the<br />

huge rise in mental health problems among children, and<br />

there isn’t enough time and money – or enough good<br />

teachers – for them to do everything that is being asked.<br />

And although some independent schools do a<br />

terrific job in this area, the overall picture in private<br />

schools is also patchy.<br />

Yet history teaches us that<br />

democracies can crumble, and<br />

that the rule of law can be broken.<br />

So in a time of economic and<br />

political upheaval, when it is also<br />

becoming harder to figure out what<br />

is true and what is not, it’s absolutely<br />

vital that everyone has enough<br />

knowledge and understanding to<br />

make up their own mind about decisions of the day.<br />

You may be lucky and have your children in a school that<br />

offers good citizenship education, but if not, it’s important<br />

to try to fill the gap. Talk about the issues of the day with<br />

them. Discuss the news when it comes on the TV or radio.<br />

Explain what your views are and why other people feel<br />

differently. Talk about the economy, elections, how laws<br />

work, and what the police and courts do. Obviously you<br />

can only do this at a level that’s right for their age, but even<br />

very young children can have a surprisingly sophisticated<br />

grasp of how hard it is for groups of people to get along<br />

together, and how there always have to be rules and customs<br />

and compromises to keep things running smoothly.<br />

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Heads Down<br />

When it comes to successful exam revision, it’s<br />

all in the motivation, as Hilary Wilce explains<br />

For some students, the new school year means<br />

retake exams looming ahead. For many others,<br />

there will be new tests and exams coming down<br />

the line. How do you revise successfully for these,<br />

without succumbing to distraction or despair?<br />

Classic revision tips usually suggest mechanical aides, such<br />

as index cards and mind maps. They suggest eating and<br />

drinking well, and getting good exercise and sleep. They may<br />

touch on the importance of rewards, treats and leisure breaks.<br />

All good advice, but successful revision actually starts – and<br />

can end – with motivation. Because with good motivation in<br />

place you can do anything. And without it, nothing works.<br />

Central to good motivation is the belief<br />

system you bring to revision. If you’re a student<br />

who thinks it’s the worst chore in the world,<br />

and that nothing can change that, then you<br />

might as well give up now because every minute<br />

you spend doing it will be a debilitating battle<br />

with yourself. Instead, look to find a way in<br />

which you can feel excited or determined<br />

about doing what it takes to get good results.<br />

According to Tony Higgins, director of<br />

Columbia Business School Motivation Science Centre, in<br />

New York, all of us do things because we like feeling effective.<br />

That’s why people willingly put themselves through the torture<br />

of marathons and Tough Mudder events. But people vary in<br />

what makes them feel effective. For some, doing well in exams<br />

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exam, it means I can move on and up, and nearer my goal<br />

of getting into the sixth form, or becoming a vet, or an IT<br />

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• Work out whether you’re someone more pulled<br />

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• Think briefly but honestly about how you’ll feel if you<br />

open your exam results and see that you haven’t done well.<br />

• Now imagine how it will feel to have done well. Shut<br />

your eyes and see it in technicolour. What are people saying<br />

to you, how are you feeling? How does your whole world<br />

look, now that you’ve done what you set out to do?<br />

• Write down a clear affirmation of what you are doing<br />

and why. “I am revising as hard as I can<br />

to do well in my exams because…” Read<br />

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• Write down some positive affirmations<br />

about yourself and how you can do<br />

this, turning negatives into positives if<br />

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need it.” Read this before every revision session.<br />

• Be aware of pitfalls along the road and plan how to deal<br />

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WT <strong>Education</strong> Supplement<br />

Beyond the Classroom<br />

University, college or straight into a career? Reigate Grammar School<br />

and ACS International Schools discuss what help is on hand when it<br />

comes to making choices for life after secondary education<br />

Matthew Buzzacott, Head of Careers at Reigate<br />

Grammar School, explains what advice and help is<br />

given to prepare students for life after school.<br />

All teachers at Reigate Grammar School<br />

have a role to play in the crucial task of<br />

preparing our students for life outside the<br />

classroom, and career aspirations underpin students’<br />

progress throughout their time at the school.<br />

Considerable assistance is given to our students making<br />

their GCSE choices, and students in Years 8 and 9 receive<br />

careers-related PSHE sessions to help them get an early<br />

insight into possible future careers and how they can progress<br />

towards them. A member of the Careers team is always<br />

available for at least two hours per day to advise students on<br />

a one-to-one basis.<br />

Every member of Year 11 – along with their<br />

parents – has a meeting with a senior member of staff<br />

to discuss their individual progress, A-Level choices<br />

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12 students, we offer Careers and Higher <strong>Education</strong><br />

‘profiling’, including interviews from external experts.<br />

All students from Year 8 upwards are invited to our<br />

lunchtime Careers Talks every three weeks, which feature<br />

external speakers presenting a wide range of career areas.<br />

Every Reigate Grammar School (RGS) student, as<br />

well as those from local state schools, is also invited to<br />

our three career-specific evenings per year, in which<br />

we hear from a range of experts in their field. Last<br />

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this year Accounting and Finance, Alternatives to<br />

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invite all RGS and local state school students to our<br />

Careers and Higher <strong>Education</strong> Conventions.<br />

To assist students with post-18 choices, we have Careers/<br />

UCAS lessons in the Sixth Form, which are <strong>supplement</strong>ed<br />

by the use of computer programs, such as Unifrog. We<br />

also have a presentation and Q&A with an expert in<br />

university admissions, and former students take questions<br />

from Year 12 students about university or alternatives.<br />

A dedicated member of staff advises on alternatives to<br />

university, applications overseas and interview preparation,<br />

and another specialises in Oxbridge applications.<br />

In their final year, students study budgeting<br />

and student finance, and this is <strong>supplement</strong>ed<br />

by lectures from an external expert speaker.<br />

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Three ACS International Schools offer tips on<br />

preparing for university life, as students move<br />

on to begin their undergraduate studies<br />

Jeremy Lewis, Head of School, ACS Egham:<br />

Every year around this time, thousands of students are<br />

preparing themselves for university life – and there is<br />

plenty they can do in advance of Freshers’ Week that will<br />

help them thrive during their first year. Although there<br />

can be lots of social events to focus on when making<br />

friends and learning how to live independently, my advice<br />

is to first consider how you might have a good working<br />

relationship with your academic tutor. By making this the<br />

focus of your first weeks and months at university, students<br />

won’t just get off to a more confident start, they will also<br />

be setting themselves up to really enjoy their course.<br />

Don’t forget that the more academic discussion first<br />

year students are part of, the more their theoretical<br />

knowledge and critical thinking in a subject will<br />

develop. Students should aim to go to every seminar<br />

with at least one strong opinion and one question about<br />

something from the reading list – which, in case you<br />

haven’t guessed, means completing the recommended<br />

reading in advance and making meaningful notes!<br />

Planning your time is essential in the first term;<br />

make sure you put a lot of time and thought into<br />

your personal, independent organisation and it will<br />

certainly pay off with lower stress levels and more<br />

time leftover for extra-curricular activities.<br />

Ryan Hinchey, College Counsellor and<br />

Careers Advisor, ACS Cobham:<br />

One of the most important parts of my role at ACS is guiding<br />

students towards suitable university choices and careers for the<br />

individual. Most often my advice to students and their parents<br />

is to find the right fit. Here at ACS, we want to prepare our<br />

graduates for university life by asking them to consider the<br />

parts of their personality that will impact their success rates<br />

in higher education. For example, what is your learning style?<br />

Do you prefer small groups, large lectures or independent<br />

study? Look for courses that are delivered in a way that<br />

suits your academic preferences. Are you an extrovert or an<br />

introvert – with this in mind, consider the choice between<br />

a large university and a smaller campus or college setting.<br />

When choosing where to study, think about if you really<br />

know what you want to study in depth, or whether you<br />

want a wider range of studies which narrow later. American<br />

universities, for example, are famous for their liberal arts<br />

approach, where you study a broad curriculum in the first<br />

year – a great opportunity to experience new things before<br />

finding your focus subject. In contrast, UK universities are<br />

famous for their superb career focus and specialisation, so<br />

knowing that difference can help make some first choices.<br />

If you don’t have a very specific career choice in mind,<br />

students can think about broader subjects, such as<br />

Geography or English, where there are many pathways<br />

to choose from. It’s not unusual to struggle with exactly<br />

what you want to do, so keep an open mind while looking<br />

for the right general fit in teaching style and location.<br />

Marcea Eckhardt, University Counsellor, ACS Hillingdon:<br />

The number of university students in the UK seeking<br />

counselling over academic stress and mental health issues<br />

has grown dramatically in recent years. The increasing<br />

pressure on young people to succeed academically, alongside<br />

the stresses of living independently in a world dominated<br />

by social media and smartphones, suggests that now, more<br />

than ever, students need mindfulness training to help<br />

maintain wellbeing as they leave their school environment.<br />

Mindfulness training gives students tools to remain<br />

calm, sustain their attention and focus through simple<br />

breathing and meditation practices – it is the training of the<br />

attention to keep focused on what’s actually happening in<br />

the present moment, and how to relate to this thoughtfully<br />

and rationally. According to a Mindful Schools study, 83<br />

per cent of teachers saw improved levels of focus amongst<br />

students who had undertaken mindfulness training,<br />

whilst 89 per cent also saw better emotional regulation.<br />

Mindful practices help students feel confident as they start<br />

a new stage of life in university or work and the methods<br />

we teach beyond the classroom at ACS Hillingdon ensure<br />

that they reach their full potential while maintaining<br />

their personal wellbeing. I would recommend new<br />

undergraduates find a meditation app or podcast series that<br />

works well for them over the summer break, so they start<br />

the new term prepared. Headspace and Calm are popular<br />

choices, but there are plenty of options available online.<br />

In addition, students should remember that various<br />

talking therapies, mindfulness and CBT courses<br />

are available free via the NHS, so get to know your<br />

campus GP and the services available early on in the<br />

academic year, for quick access if needed later.<br />

Long term, practising mindfulness cultivates a greater<br />

sense of perspective. Teaching mindfulness gives crucial<br />

tools to deal with the pressures of life – starting university,<br />

but beyond that too. It’s empowering and once you know<br />

how to do it, you can draw on it whenever you need to.<br />

acs-schools.com<br />

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Friday 11th October<br />

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Neurodiversity<br />

Assistant Head Welfare and Head of Special <strong>Education</strong>al Needs at Dulwich Prep<br />

Cranbrook, Alison Eckersley, was recently shortlisted as an Adult Champion in<br />

the Place2Be Wellbeing in Schools Awards. Here, she explains how her school<br />

is recognising and supporting children with neurological differences<br />

In recent years especially, there has been a rightful push<br />

in schools to better understand the nature of each child’s<br />

individual needs. Part of that is recognising the effect<br />

of neurological disorders and finding a way to help each<br />

child adjust to society without pathologising their condition.<br />

The acceptance of this idea and these people is known as<br />

neurodiversity. There has been some pushback from this<br />

term as in its basic form it seems to include any person with<br />

a mental illness, but the important part of its use is that it<br />

is inclusive, thereby allowing broad categorisation without<br />

furthering untrue or harmful policies. The furthering of<br />

understanding and accepting mental health issues is a<br />

challenge that we are continually working on to effectively<br />

support our pupils. To this end we will be introducing a<br />

school wide initiative from <strong>September</strong> to give the children<br />

the language and skills to develop ways to deal with their<br />

emotions. iSpace Wellbeing is an exciting, child-friendly<br />

approach to starting the conversation about mental health and<br />

wellbeing and has been designed to enable children, parents<br />

and teachers to integrate wellbeing into their everyday lives.<br />

In school, as elsewhere, neurological differences must<br />

be both recognised and respected as any other human<br />

condition. These differences can include disorders such as<br />

dyspraxia, dyslexia, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity<br />

Disorder), dyscalculia, autistic spectrum and others.<br />

Pupils are identified through various means including<br />

standardised screening assessments, but most importantly<br />

through a close and trusting working relationship with<br />

parents. Inviting parents to meet with teaching staff to<br />

discuss the diverse needs of the pupils in our care is a<br />

fundamental part of the work that we do to respond to<br />

and support the ever changing needs of the pupils.<br />

At Dulwich Prep Cranbrook we have actively promoted<br />

support systems that allow an autistic pupil to manage<br />

and live with increased ease within the school and wider<br />

community. The pupil has recently acquired an assistance<br />

dog which will enable them to take part in a wider range of<br />

activities, both <strong>inside</strong> and outside the school environment.<br />

The other children in the school have also had an<br />

opportunity to meet the dog and its trainers in order to gain<br />

an understanding of the specific needs of the child and to<br />

appreciate how they can offer peer support. In recent years<br />

we have also successfully supported pupils with profound<br />

deafness and others with severe visual impairments.<br />

Emotional wellbeing is embedded within the school’s<br />

culture and we have an established and highly effective<br />

partnership with Place2Be within the school. This enables<br />

us to offer children, and parents, support and appropriate<br />

intervention at an early stage before a crisis emerges. Pupils<br />

with neurological differences have sought support from this<br />

network and we have seen children respond very positively<br />

to having an opportunity to access staff and professionals<br />

specifically trained to offer additional support to young people<br />

with additional needs. This has complemented the support<br />

already offered by the teaching staff and SEN department<br />

and the wider safe space offered by the school community.<br />

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Why did you set up the company? I set up the<br />

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Who can it benefit? Play Therapy can help children<br />

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children who have been through difficult times at school,<br />

have suffered trauma or bereavement, and have behavioural<br />

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child reaching happiness or achieving their goals.<br />

Can you tell us a little bit about what you offer? The Caboose<br />

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The second uses Play Therapy in school to support children<br />

so that they get the best out of the learning environment.<br />

In both of these, the aim is for the child to take ownership<br />

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to help promote resilience and academic success.<br />

How can I tell if my child needs extra help and support? Trust<br />

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Course Work<br />

Our pick of the best adult education courses across the South East<br />

Kent Adult <strong>Education</strong><br />

With almost 4,000 wide<br />

ranging and diverse courses<br />

to choose from, Kent Adult<br />

<strong>Education</strong> offers adults the<br />

opportunity to reach their full<br />

potential by trying something<br />

they’ve always wanted to.<br />

Creative Writing (multiple<br />

courses available)<br />

Where: Locations across Kent<br />

When: Varies<br />

Duration: Varies<br />

Cost: From £40<br />

Ever wanted to pen a novel,<br />

create poetry, blog or write for<br />

the big screen, but not known<br />

where to start? Learn how, as<br />

you write your way through<br />

the genres of literature with<br />

a Creative Writing course.<br />

Interior Design<br />

Where: Sevenoaks, Maidstone,<br />

Canterbury, Broadstairs<br />

When: Varies<br />

Duration: Varies<br />

Cost: From £30<br />

Design the rooms of your<br />

dream house with an Interior<br />

Design course. With a focus<br />

on creativity, courses will teach<br />

you about costing, as well as<br />

how to draw elevation plans,<br />

lighting, furnishing, painting<br />

and decorating your home.<br />

Photography<br />

Where: Locations across Kent<br />

When: Varies<br />

Duration: Varies<br />

Cost: From £50<br />

A photography course will<br />

teach you the compositional<br />

skill and technical expertise<br />

needed to take remarkable<br />

shots. Whatever level you are<br />

at; beginner, intermediate<br />

or advanced, there’s<br />

something for everyone.<br />

Sign Language<br />

Where: Locations across Kent<br />

When: Varies<br />

Duration: Varies<br />

Cost: From £6<br />

Learn how to communicate<br />

using hand and body<br />

movement, lip patterns and<br />

facial expressions. Find out<br />

how to meet and greet others,<br />

exchange information and<br />

demonstrate signs for several<br />

topics, including the weather,<br />

colours, food and drink.<br />

Tai Chi<br />

Where: Locations across Kent<br />

When: Varies<br />

Duration: Varies<br />

Cost: From £33<br />

Improve your postural<br />

alignment, learn various<br />

breathing techniques and pick<br />

up tips for better breathing<br />

on a long-term basis. Deeper<br />

breathing promotes harmony<br />

and health, balancing the<br />

mind, body and spirit, whilst<br />

helping to reduce stress levels.<br />

Find out more at<br />

kentadulteducation.co.uk,<br />

call 03000 412222 or<br />

pop in to your local Kent<br />

Adult <strong>Education</strong> Centre.<br />

Surrey Adult Learning<br />

Surrey Adult Learning’s<br />

Autumn <strong>2019</strong> courses are<br />

available for enrolment<br />

now. There are thousands<br />

of courses to choose from<br />

that run from seven adult<br />

learning centres across Surrey.<br />

Meditation – Introduction<br />

to Mindfulness<br />

Where: Esher Adult<br />

Learning Centre<br />

When: 17/09/19 – 22/10/19<br />

Duration: 6 Weeks<br />

Cost: £96<br />

This course aims to help you<br />

experience improved health<br />

and wellbeing and reduce<br />

stress through the regular<br />

practice of mindfulness<br />

techniques. It will introduce<br />

you to the foundations of<br />

mindfulness. It will give<br />

you the tools to continue<br />

practising mindfulness<br />

yourself, in your own time<br />

at home, work and play.<br />

Watercolour Painting<br />

– All Abilities<br />

Where: Camberley Adult<br />

Learning Centre<br />

When: 16/09/19 – 25/11/19<br />

Duration: 10 Weeks<br />

Cost: £142<br />

You will learn to distinguish<br />

the use of tone, colour,<br />

composition and perspective.<br />

You will practise the use of<br />

washes, wet in wet, brush work<br />

and other textural effects. Gain<br />

confidence in using materials<br />

and be encouraged to take<br />

part in group discussions.<br />

This course will include a<br />

model for one week and you<br />

will have access to one-to-one<br />

support. The overall aim is<br />

to help you develop personal<br />

expression through a mixture<br />

of practise, discussion and<br />

demonstration techniques.<br />

Business Management – Run<br />

Your Own Business – Stage 1<br />

Where: Woking Adult<br />

Learning Centre<br />

When: 23/09/19 – 21/01/19<br />

Duration: 5 Weeks<br />

Cost: £68<br />

This course is ideal if you<br />

wish to set up on your own or<br />

improve your existing business<br />

format. The course will cover<br />

business planning, take the<br />

mystery out of selling and<br />

will help you to develop your<br />

customer strategy.<br />

GCSE English<br />

Where: Farnham Adult<br />

Learning Centre<br />

When: 11/09/19 – 20 /05/20<br />

Duration: 32 Weeks<br />

Cost: Free<br />

To enrol on the GCSE<br />

English course you will first<br />

need to attend one of our<br />

Free Information, Advice &<br />

Guidance (IAG) sessions.<br />

Cookery: Planning<br />

Ahead For Christmas<br />

Where: Guildford Adult<br />

Learning Centre<br />

When: 30/11/19 10:00-15:30<br />

Duration: 1 Day<br />

Cost: £52<br />

When Christmas is looming<br />

it’s a great idea to plan ahead.<br />

This course will help you to<br />

work out what you can make<br />

in advance and store, and how<br />

to make the best use of your<br />

time in the kitchen so you<br />

still get to enjoy the party/<br />

family time. Even if you aren’t<br />

planning a big event, this<br />

course will show you how<br />

to take advantage of cheap<br />

seasonal ingredients, and<br />

supermarket special offers,<br />

how to make dishes in bulk,<br />

to save money and always have<br />

something interesting in your<br />

freezer to enjoy at a later date.<br />

Find out more at surreycc.<br />

gov.uk/schools-and-learning/<br />

adult-learning/course-directory<br />

Call the customer service<br />

team to enrol on 0300 200<br />

1044 or speak to a member<br />

of staff at your local centre.<br />

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Beauty<br />

Post summer hair<br />

S.O.S.<br />

Reverse the damaging and drying effects of sun, heat and holidays<br />

with Josephine Fairley’s tips for beautifying your barnet<br />

So, you disobeyed every single bit of<br />

beauty wisdom that people like me<br />

dish out at the beginning of summer.<br />

Sun. Sea. Surf. Sand. Styling gunk. Salt spray,<br />

even! (What were you thinking? Well, beach-y<br />

tousled waves, probably.) And as a result,<br />

chances are that by now, you’re only too well<br />

aware that summer is very hard on your hair.<br />

This is most definitely the time to answer<br />

your hair’s S.O.S. call, then. Because<br />

summer may be tough on your tresses – but<br />

if you compound that with the ultra-dry<br />

environment we’re about to move into as soon<br />

as the central heating goes on, the damage just<br />

accelerates, and you’ll find yourself heading<br />

inexorably haystack-wards. So this is the time<br />

to put back what summer <strong>2019</strong> took out – and<br />

get back on track with a hair rehab regime…<br />

First things first: book a trim. Styles<br />

drop out of shape over the summer, fringes<br />

droop into eyes – and the ends (which are<br />

the oldest part of your hair, of course) are<br />

more vulnerable to damage from summer’s<br />

offenders than the rest of your hair. Ideally,<br />

have at least half an inch off to get rid of any<br />

split ends – but since autumn’s a time of fresh<br />

starts and new additions to your wardrobe, is<br />

it time to consider a whole new look? (Hair<br />

grows at roughly half an inch a month, so<br />

you’re not going to lose much of the length.<br />

And if you don’t stop those split ends in their<br />

tracks, they just move up the hair shaft.)<br />

Schedule colour, too. If you have highlights<br />

(as we do), you almost certainly have very<br />

visible regrowth by now, as the sun ‘lifts’ hair<br />

that’s already been chemically bleached more<br />

than it lightens the newer hair at the parting.<br />

If you home-colour, do it right now. If you<br />

need a salon appointment to refresh your<br />

colour, book it PDQ – because everyone who’s<br />

been anywhere near a beach or pool will be<br />

trying to do the same. If you’ve highlighted<br />

hair, and those streaks have gone superblonde,<br />

meanwhile, discuss the notion of some<br />

lowlights to help tone down the contrast.<br />

Upgrade your haircare. At all costs avoid<br />

cheap, massively lathering shampoos right<br />

now – that detergent will strip the last of the<br />

precious moisture out of your hair. Many<br />

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along the lines that you should really lavish the<br />

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you’re absolutely going to see a difference.<br />

A new range that has impressed me is<br />

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Lush H’Suan<br />

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£15 for 225g<br />

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L’Huile de<br />

Leonor Greyl Pre-<br />

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£31 for 95ml<br />

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Redken All<br />

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£27.60 for 90ml<br />

feelunique.com<br />

to identify your dosha, or Ayurvedic type,<br />

is really fun). Another is botanically-based<br />

Innersense, which offers a specific collection<br />

for ‘dry and thirsty’ hair (as it so often is at<br />

the end of summer). Their Hydrating Cream<br />

Hairbath and Conditioner, from £9 (they do<br />

great intro sizes), are lightweight, yet deeply<br />

hydrating and end-of-summer perfect, while<br />

Innersense’s excellent styling products are also<br />

packed with hair nourishment. Leonor Greyl –<br />

the Parisienne woman’s shiny-hair secret – has<br />

a vast range of luxurious hair-repairing options<br />

(find them at Cult Beauty, among other online<br />

destinations); the Shampooing Reviviscence<br />

Repairing Shampoo for Ultra Dry Hair, £47<br />

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spectrum for something which you apparently<br />

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If you’re on a budget, the Organix<br />

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total steal, great for restoring softness and<br />

rebuilding strength – and at high street prices.<br />

Cut down your use of heated styling tools,<br />

for now. Heat damages hair and leads to<br />

breaking, making it brittle and limp. For<br />

the next month or so, while hair’s in rehab,<br />

allow it to dry naturally whenever you<br />

can – and if you are using a straightening<br />

iron, it’s more important than ever to<br />

smooth on a protective product, first.<br />

Consider a pre-shampoo oil treatment. Hair<br />

needs moisture – but it also needs ‘feeding’,<br />

with oils. (Your body needs both food and<br />

water – and although it’s not strictly living,<br />

hair’s no different.) Coconut oil works for this<br />

– warm it till liquid and massage into hair and<br />

scalp; you’ll need to shampoo a couple of times<br />

to remove it, then condition as normal. Monoi<br />

oil (with its wonderful tropical frangipani<br />

scent) is another option. Or use a targeted<br />

product: Neal’s Yard Remedies Rosemary &<br />

Cedarwood Hair Treatment, £8 for 50g, is<br />

one of their bestsellers (with a wonderfully<br />

aromatic scent) and Redken All Soft Argan-6<br />

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Greyl, here, who pretty much pioneered<br />

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Greyl Pre-Shampoo Treatment has earned<br />

its classic status for very good reason. With<br />

pre-shampoo oils, leave in place for as long as<br />

possible, wrapping hair in one of your notso-precious<br />

towels. Ideally, leave on overnight<br />

and shampoo in the morning – but you will<br />

need to wrap your pillow in a towel to do this.<br />

Slap on a mask. And remember: more is<br />

more. The great news is that hair responds<br />

very swiftly to deep treatments. Hairdressers<br />

ritually prescribe hair masks once a week, but<br />

if you’re suffering post-summer straw-like<br />

locks, even a single deep treatment mask will<br />

make a tremendous difference. Remember:<br />

less is never more, when it comes to hair<br />

masks. Slather your chosen mask generously.<br />

Better still, wrap hair in clingfilm and put<br />

a warmed towel over the top to encourage<br />

the product to penetrate. Best of all? Wrap a<br />

towel over your pillow and let your chosen<br />

hair mask work its repairing magic overnight.<br />

Go-to hair masks for me include davines OI<br />

Hair Butter, £24 for 250ml, heaven-scented<br />

Aesōp Rose Hair & Scalp Moisturising Masque,<br />

£25 for 120ml, and Lush H’Suan Wen Hua,<br />

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Trust me: if you put your hair into rehab<br />

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Health & Wellbeing<br />

Heal Headaches<br />

Henrietta Norton explains how a holistic approach to your health<br />

and wellbeing can help to ease problem headaches<br />

A<br />

headache is one way your body can tell<br />

you that something is out of balance<br />

– whether this is a psychological<br />

pressure or a hormonal imbalance. Using it<br />

as an opportunity to delve into the cause,<br />

especially if they are re-occurring, can be a<br />

really productive approach to wellness.<br />

There are many causes of headaches, such as<br />

high blood pressure, low or high blood sugar,<br />

dehydration, tension, hormones, medications<br />

and infections, to name but a few. Here are some<br />

actions you can take to support your body to<br />

reduce the chance of suffering from headaches.<br />

Support your liver<br />

The liver is responsible for many functions,<br />

including cleansing your blood, digesting<br />

food, producing energy and metabolising<br />

hormones. If any of these functions are<br />

under performing due to poor diet and<br />

lifestyle, a headache could develop.<br />

You can support your liver with food and<br />

herbs, such as garlic, onions, leafy greens,<br />

cruciferous vegetables (brussels sprouts, cabbage,<br />

kale, broccoli, watercress), dandelion root,<br />

artichoke leaf, burdock root, milk thistle and<br />

extra B vitamins. Extra protein will also help<br />

to support the liver. If you have a headache,<br />

try eating a protein-rich meal or snack and<br />

you may find this will alleviate the pain. A<br />

well-used naturopathic remedy is to undergo<br />

a gentle liver and gut cleansing programme.<br />

Blood sugar<br />

When you eat high sugar foods, or go too long<br />

without eating, your body can swing into high<br />

or low blood sugar which can cause headaches.<br />

Poor blood sugar control will also impact other<br />

hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol, which<br />

will increase your susceptibility to head pain.<br />

The solution is to eat protein-rich meals<br />

with plenty of vegetables and healthy fats.<br />

Avoid or minimise all refined, processed foods<br />

and ingredients you do not recognise. Better<br />

still, stick to foods that don’t need a lengthy<br />

ingredients label at all. Some foods will impact<br />

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offenders are bread, cereal, white rice, high sugar<br />

fruits, such as grapes, bananas and mangoes,<br />

low-fat yogurt and sauces such as ketchup.<br />

Specific nutrients<br />

Headaches can also result from a deficiency in<br />

certain nutrients, most commonly magnesium,<br />

vitamin B6 and folate (also known as vitamin<br />

B9). Magnesium and vitamin B6 support<br />

the production of the neurotransmitter<br />

serotonin, blood sugar regulation and the<br />

efficient metabolism of oestrogen (an excess<br />

or deficiency of which can lead to headaches).<br />

Similarly folate and magnesium influence blood<br />

circulation by contributing to vasoconstriction<br />

which can generate pressure headaches.<br />

You can boost your dietary intake of these<br />

nutrients by eating more green leafy vegetables,<br />

legumes, nuts, seeds and whole grains.<br />

Rehydrate<br />

It’s surprising how many people forget to drink<br />

enough water throughout their day or only drink<br />

coffee and tea. If you don’t like water try adding<br />

some fresh lemon or lime to improve the taste.<br />

The quality of water is also important as you<br />

don’t want to burden your body with more<br />

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You could also start the day with a fresh<br />

vegetable juice to provide condensed nourishment<br />

from the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients.<br />

Lifestyle<br />

Most people will have experienced a tension<br />

headache at some point from staring at a<br />

computer screen for too long. We are constantly<br />

surrounded by mobile phones, Wi-Fi and<br />

portable house phones, so it’s impossible to<br />

avoid the electromagnetic radiation they emit.<br />

However, we can switch them off at night, have<br />

regular breaks from electronic devices and get<br />

out into nature. It is also important to note that<br />

children absorb more radiation than adults as<br />

they have thinner skin and bones and a higher<br />

water content so it’s wise to limit their exposure.<br />

Brown Rice Kedgeree<br />

Rich in omega 3, B12,<br />

B3, B1, B2, B6, folic acid,<br />

iron, magnesium, calcium,<br />

fibre and protein.<br />

Serves 2 Prep time: 5 mins,<br />

Cooking time: 45 mins<br />

• 350g undyed smoked<br />

haddock<br />

• 1 tbsp coconut oil<br />

• 1 small onion, finely chopped<br />

• 1 tsp curry powder<br />

• ½ tsp turmeric<br />

• 90g brown rice, rinsed<br />

• 1 tbsp tomato purée<br />

• 125g spinach leaves<br />

• 2 tbsp goats’ yogurt (optional)<br />

• Salt and black pepper<br />

• 2 hard-boiled eggs, quartered<br />

Bring 600ml water to the boil<br />

in a large frying pan. Reduce the<br />

heat, add the smoked haddock<br />

and simmer for 3-4 mins,<br />

until just cooked. Remove the<br />

fish, strain the cooking liquid<br />

into a bowl and set aside.<br />

Heat the oil in a pan, add the<br />

onion and cook over a medium<br />

heat for 2-3 mins. Add the curry<br />

powder and turmeric and cook<br />

for 2 mins. Add the rice and<br />

tomato purée and stir to mix.<br />

Add the reserved cooking<br />

liquid and bring to the boil.<br />

Cover and simmer for 40-50<br />

mins until the rice is tender,<br />

stirring in the spinach just<br />

before the rice is cooked.<br />

Remove and discard the skin<br />

and any bones from the haddock<br />

and separate into flakes. Stir<br />

the yogurt into the rice, add<br />

seasoning to taste, then gently<br />

mix in the flaked haddock.<br />

Spoon onto a warm<br />

serving dish, arrange the eggs<br />

on the rice and serve with<br />

steamed spinach and kale.<br />

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Spotting the signs<br />

Speaking from her own personal experience,<br />

Sarah Maxwell looks into the stigma and concerns<br />

surrounding the menopause and perimenopause<br />

Consultant Gynaecologist<br />

Anne Henderson explains<br />

what’s available for us during<br />

perimenopause and menopause<br />

If I see a specialist privately for<br />

menopause am I still in the NHS<br />

system? Most GPs will provide NHS<br />

prescriptions for body-identical HRT<br />

if requested by a specialist like myself,<br />

and they are usually happy to carry<br />

out certain hormone tests as well.<br />

Perimenopause generally<br />

occurs in a woman’s 40s but<br />

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even earlier. With this in mind we<br />

need to be talking about it more!<br />

The acceptance of the menopause<br />

was the most important thing for<br />

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friends talking about it in hushed,<br />

almost ashamed tones – thankfully<br />

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It’s taken some time though – denial,<br />

confusion and frustration have reigned<br />

for a number of years. It didn’t cross<br />

my mind what was happening. I<br />

struggled with night sweats, anxiety,<br />

disturbed sleep and my mood to name<br />

but a few symptoms. Some people sail<br />

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while we will all go through it, our<br />

experiences may well be miles apart.<br />

As with so much in life, it’s important<br />

to remember not to compare yourself to<br />

others – we are all different and we need<br />

to stop beating ourselves up because of<br />

it! Easier said than done I know, but<br />

you will thank yourself for it later.<br />

It’s more important than ever to look<br />

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levels our muscle mass and bone density<br />

starts to decrease and we are more likely<br />

to gain weight around our middles.<br />

To help counteract this, I recommend<br />

introducing some weight training into<br />

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resistance training – squats, lunges<br />

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density try weight bearing exercises<br />

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Many women rely on swimming<br />

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all-rounder and can improve both<br />

your cardiovascular fitness and muscle<br />

strength, you will benefit hugely from<br />

adding in both weight training and<br />

weight bearing exercises to your routine.<br />

Eating well, exercising and<br />

making sure you are getting the<br />

right support, whatever treatment<br />

route you choose, are vital.<br />

As for me, Self-love, Care, ‘Me’<br />

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If I start taking oestrogen do I<br />

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balance is essential in<br />

menopausal women who still have<br />

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What are your thoughts on the<br />

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If I ask to see a gynaecologist will they<br />

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Courgettes, beetroot and onions are in plentiful supply right now. These are easy crops<br />

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This is especially true with courgettes – the vegetable that keeps on giving – and giving.<br />

Here, Jo Arnell creates three purely plant-based dishes that are spiced to perfection<br />

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Beetroot and Butternut Tart<br />

Serves 4 Preparation time: 15 mins Cooking time: 1 hour<br />

This can be made as a tart tatin, or layered into a pastry<br />

case. It is a loose mix, so will fall apart slightly when cut.<br />

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil<br />

• 3 medium beetroot, sliced into segments<br />

• 150g butternut squash (approx ½<br />

a large squash), peeled and diced<br />

• 1 tbsp oregano<br />

• 1 sheet ready-rolled shortcrust pastry<br />

(or your own recipe)<br />

• 3 red onions, thinly sliced<br />

• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar<br />

• 1 dstsp dark brown sugar (or to taste)<br />

• Seasoning, to taste<br />

1Preheat oven to 180°C, gas 4. Mix 1 tbsp of the<br />

oil, beetroot, butternut squash and half the oregano<br />

in a roasting tin and roast for 20-25 mins.<br />

2While these are cooking, put the remaining oil in a pan<br />

and add the onions. Sauté gently on a low heat for 20 mins<br />

until they are really soft. Add balsamic vinegar and sugar and<br />

cook for a further 15-20 mins until the onions are caramelised.<br />

I blind baked a shortcrust pastry base for this recipe – line<br />

3 a tart/quiche tin with pastry, fill with heat resistant baking<br />

beans and bake for 15 mins until the pastry is lightly cooked.<br />

Now add the cooked ingredients in layers and return to the<br />

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Stuffed Courgettes<br />

Serves 4 Preparation time:<br />

20 mins Cooking time; 30-40 mins<br />

Life may be too short for stuffing<br />

mushrooms, but not for courgettes!<br />

This recipe can be adapted in many ways,<br />

depending on what you have in store. I have used<br />

quinoa and pine nuts as the protein ingredient,<br />

but you could substitute with rice and use other<br />

nuts, such as chopped hazelnuts or walnuts.<br />

• 120g quinoa<br />

• 4 medium courgettes, sliced lengthways<br />

• 1 bunch spring onions (around 6), finely chopped<br />

• 1 red pepper, finely diced<br />

• 1-2 cloves garlic<br />

• 20g (1 handful) chopped parsley<br />

• Juice of ½ lemon<br />

• 1 tbsp olive oil<br />

• 75g pine nuts<br />

• 50g dry breadcrumbs<br />

• Salt and pepper to taste<br />

Preheat oven to 180°C, gas 4. Cook the<br />

1 quinoa in boiling water for 20 mins (or<br />

according to pack instructions).Drain and set aside.<br />

Scoop out the middle of the courgette halves<br />

2 to make ‘canoes’ – I used a paring knife, but<br />

a melon baller could be the perfect tool.<br />

Finely chop the courgette middles and combine<br />

3 with the other ingredients, leaving out the<br />

breadcrumbs and half of the pine nuts.<br />

Heat the oil in a pan. Tip in the mixture and<br />

4 gently sauté for 5 mins. Spoon into the courgette<br />

halves and lay them on a non-stick baking tray. Top<br />

with breadcrumbs and the rest of the pine nuts.<br />

Cover with foil and bake for 20 mins, then<br />

5 uncover and return to the oven for a further<br />

10-15 mins until the breadcrumb topping is<br />

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Lentil, Spinach & Onion Curry<br />

Serves 4 Preparation time: 10 mins Cooking time: 15 mins<br />

This is like a dhal; split peas or other pulses can be<br />

used (if using dried pulses, check pack instructions). I<br />

like the texture of puy lentils and because this is made<br />

quickly, all the ingredients stay firm and discernible.<br />

Cook for longer if you prefer a softer texture.<br />

• 1 tbsp cumin seeds<br />

• 1 tbsp mustard seeds<br />

• 1 tbsp medium curry powder (or make your<br />

own using 1 tsp ground coriander<br />

• ½ tsp fenugreek, 1 tsp chilli flakes, 1 tsp<br />

ground cumin, 1 tsp ground ginger)<br />

• 1 tbsp vegetable oil<br />

• 4 medium red onions, halved and sliced<br />

• 250g Puy lentils (vacuum packed, tinned<br />

or dry – soaked, cooked and drained)<br />

• 3 large beefsteak tomatoes, sliced (or<br />

1 tin chopped tomatoes)<br />

• 120g baby spinach leaves<br />

• Juice of ½ lemon<br />

• Salt and ground black pepper, to taste<br />

Place all the spices in a heavy, non-stick<br />

1 pan and heat gently for 2-3 mins.<br />

Add the vegetable oil and onions and cook for 2 mins.<br />

2 Stir in the lentils and tomatoes and stir-fry for 10 mins.<br />

Mix in the spinach leaves and lemon juice towards the<br />

3 end of the cooking time. Cook for a further<br />

2 mins until the spinach has wilted. Add salt<br />

and ground black pepper to taste.


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easy to propagate). I worried at first how I was going to<br />

get up on the roof to weed it regularly, but astonishingly<br />

no weeds have survived for long enough to be a problem.<br />

Conditions up there are dry and exposed and the planting<br />

medium is about only 10cm deep. The sedum is thriving.<br />

The other group of succulent plants that are familiar are<br />

sempervivums. The name comes from the Latin ‘semper’ –<br />

meaning always, and ‘vivum’ – giving us a clue to their resilient<br />

nature. In fact, they are so tough that they were once used to<br />

plug holes in roofs – hence their other name – houseleek.<br />

Cultivation and soil<br />

Succulents and sedums seem to thrive on neglect, but don’t be<br />

fooled into thinking that they are completely indestructible.<br />

Kindness – in the form of water, shade and rich compost –<br />

will kill them as quickly as hot sun, poor soil and dry wind<br />

kills plants from more temperate regions. Specific potting<br />

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Five easy succulents to grow<br />

Sedum spurium ‘Dragons Blood’ (Stonecrop) – this<br />

is the sedum I used on my roof. It is reddish in colour<br />

(new foliage starts green), with pink/red flowers in<br />

summer, turning a deeper red in autumn. The stems<br />

are lax and it quickly spreads to make a carpet<br />

Aloe vera – probably best as a houseplant, as it will only<br />

thrive in the warmest of summers outside. It likes to be in<br />

full sun, watered deeply occasionally. Aloes are quick to make<br />

‘pups’ and may need repotting each spring. They can be used<br />

medicinally and apparently are great for treating minor burns<br />

– just break off a bit and gently rub it on the area as a salve.<br />

Sempervivum arachnoideum – the ‘cobweb’ houseleek<br />

is an evergreen, rosette forming plant with a fine mesh<br />

of webbing over it – looking a bit like a spider’s web.<br />

Mature plants have pale pink flowers on long stems.<br />

Sometimes also called ‘Hen and chicks’, as the main plant<br />

is quickly surrounded by lots of little offsets, or ‘chicks.’<br />

Seasonal care<br />

Outdoor succulents will grow rapidly in the spring and early<br />

summer, often doubling in size, producing many little offsets<br />

and flowering (the flowers are quite peculiar – more suited to<br />

the set of Star Trek than the garden). Once they have flowered,<br />

they will die, making room for the offsets to take their place.<br />

It is in the winter that succulents may need the most care<br />

and attention, as they won’t sit happily outside in damp<br />

winter conditions. Containers can be brought under cover<br />

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as they are kept on the dry side. If you can’t move them,<br />

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Echeveria secunda var. glauca – the ‘pinwheel’<br />

succulent is another rosette forming plant, with pale<br />

green, glaucous leaves tinged with pinky-red at the<br />

edges. It is slightly less hardy than the sempervivums and<br />

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Aeonium ‘Cyclops’ – a tall and very striking succulent<br />

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Although succulents can be grown from seed, the most<br />

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over and then poking it back into the soil. Many of them<br />

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an ancient aquaduct, toward Castello Rosso, whose<br />

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Fairs & Festivals<br />

Sat 14 – Sun 22 Sep<br />

Various locations across<br />

the Weald of Kent<br />

High Weald<br />

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Entry: Free, donations will<br />

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Sat 21 & Sun 22 Sep<br />

The Historic Dockyard,<br />

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Salute to the ‘40s<br />

One of Britain’s best vintage<br />

festivals returns with live music<br />

including the D Day Darlings<br />

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market, Lindy Hop and Jive<br />

dancing, a rations cooking<br />

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re-enactors to make the whole<br />

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Food & Drink<br />

Sat 7 & Sun 8 Sep 10am-6pm<br />

Dreamland, 49-51,<br />

Marine Terrace, Margate,<br />

Kent CT9 1XJ<br />

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Dreamland’s first ever food<br />

festival with a farmers’<br />

market, a parade of street<br />

vendors, live music from The<br />

Britpop Collective, a talk on<br />

shopping for the environment,<br />

samples, a mini-festival of ice<br />

cream with over 32,000,000<br />

combinations and an amazing<br />

line-up of local and London<br />

based chefs, mixologists<br />

and coffee connoisseurs.<br />

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Sunday 8 Sep<br />

Chiddingstone Castle, Hill<br />

Hoath Road, Chiddingstone,<br />

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Country & Food Fair<br />

A fun-filled day of traditional<br />

country activities. Shop the<br />

stalls, enter your four-legged<br />

friends in the dog show, watch<br />

a chicken race, try a children’s<br />

cookery workshop, fish with<br />

the Edenbridge Angling Society,<br />

and make sure to catch the<br />

family giant woolsack race.<br />

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under 5s Free, families £15<br />

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Music & Theatre<br />

Sat 21 – Sun 22 Sep<br />

St Clere Estate, Kemsing,<br />

Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 6NL<br />

Southbeats Festival<br />

Kent’s biggest dance music<br />

festival. Shy FX, Mike Skinner,<br />

Example, and Dizzee Rascal<br />

are just a handful of the top<br />

artists you’ll find on this<br />

one of a kind music festival’s<br />

killer line up this year.<br />

Entry: from £45<br />

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Thu 26 Sept (Little Silver<br />

Hotel & Cashara, Tenterden),<br />

Fri 4 Oct (The George,<br />

Robertsbridge), Thu 10 Oct<br />

(Eastwell Manor, Ashford), Fri<br />

18 (The Vestry Hall & Odyl,<br />

Cranbrook) & Fri 25 Oct<br />

(Smallhythe Place)<br />

Think pink weald tour<br />

The Rockin Rockits!, the<br />

Wonderful Ruby Choir and<br />

the Swinging Ruby Sisterz are<br />

touring the Weald performing<br />

chart hits and musical classics<br />

to raise awareness and funds for<br />

Breast Cancer awareness month.<br />

Two of our favourite shops,<br />

Odyl and Cashara, will also be<br />

holding fashion shows, plus<br />

each event will have a Grand<br />

Pink Raffle and refreshments.<br />

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all others £5<br />

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Shopping<br />

Fri 27 Sat – Sun 29<br />

Sep 9am-4.30pm<br />

Silcocks Farm, Grange Road,<br />

St. Michael’s, Tenterden,<br />

Kent TN30 6TL<br />

The Three French<br />

Hens Brocante<br />

Linda, Mandi and Pippa, the<br />

Three French Hens, will be<br />

holding their next Brocante sale<br />

of home and garden collectables<br />

with everything is sourced<br />

almost entirely in France.<br />

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Sports &<br />

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Relaxation<br />

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Yvonne Fernando, NLP Master<br />

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Cobtree Manor Golf Course<br />

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A Round for Richard<br />

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Weddings<br />

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Secret Garden Restaurant<br />

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Secret Garden<br />

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What’s On in <strong>September</strong><br />

Workshops<br />

Sun 1 Sep – Thu 24 Oct<br />

Temper Temper Chocolate<br />

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The top chocolatiers Temper<br />

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summer blues with a series<br />

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children alike. Throughout the<br />

next two months there will be<br />

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adults and older teens who fancy<br />

making truffles and decorating<br />

chocolate bars, and one<br />

adults-only chocktail evening<br />

on Friday <strong>September</strong> 27.<br />

Entry: from £25, kids<br />

workshops £20<br />

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Look Forward:<br />

October<br />

Sat 5 – Sun 6 Oct<br />

Kent Life, Lock Lane,<br />

Sandling, Maidstone,<br />

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Apple and Cider Fayre<br />

Kent Life’s annual celebration<br />

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around 35 variety of delicious<br />

apples, a cider tent, local bands,<br />

demonstrations, children’s apple<br />

craft, and a free apple cookbook.<br />

Entry: Adults £9.95, children<br />

and concessions £8.25,<br />

families £32.95, members<br />

and under 3s free<br />

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Sat 5 Oct<br />

Curious House, Gauntlets,<br />

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Painting with oils –<br />

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land and seascapes with East<br />

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will learn about composition,<br />

how to mix colour, and to create<br />

your own individual piece of<br />

work in an intimate workshop<br />

with numbers limited to eight.<br />

Entry: £95 plus £15 for materials<br />

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Fri 11 – Sun 13 October<br />

Tunbridge Wells<br />

Tunbridge Wells<br />

Puppetry Festival<br />

Puppetry isn’t all Punch and<br />

Judy anymore and this quirky<br />

festival celebrates it in all its<br />

many forms- object theatre,<br />

marionnettes, shadow play,<br />

kites, from a 17 foot Arbor to a<br />

mini marvel of a table-top show<br />

for an audience of eight, this<br />

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the ‘pantry’. I’ll go to the hive the evening before, take<br />

out the queen excluder and put a board fitted with two<br />

ingenious little plastic trap doors – a Porter escape – in<br />

its place that let the bees go from the honey frames<br />

down into the nest but not back up again. Bingo, 24<br />

hours later the frames are all bee-free and ready for<br />

“In a good year<br />

a strong beehive<br />

will produce<br />

about 40lb of<br />

spare honey”<br />

taking home and spinning to produce the honey.<br />

In a good year – and this has been one – a strong beehive<br />

will produce about 40lb of spare honey. We have five<br />

colonies, do the maths, so those pantry shelves are already<br />

beginning to groan and I haven’t even started on the jam.<br />

My favourite is bramble jelly. Now you might think that<br />

blackberrying just involves standing in a hedge, getting<br />

snared in the brambles and stung by the nettles as you<br />

happily seek all the ripe ones, but you’d<br />

be wrong. According to Dorothy Hartley’s<br />

bible Food in England (first published in<br />

1954, a fount of useful information and<br />

a perfect Christmas present for foodies)<br />

there is an art to this seasonal occupation.<br />

She explains that in <strong>September</strong> the lowest<br />

berry of each cluster swells and ripens<br />

alone. These are the top choice, sweeter<br />

and juicier than the others and best eaten<br />

raw. Then later in the month the secondary berries ripen,<br />

less juicy but good for pies and jam making (so that’s me<br />

sorted) and then by the end of the month they are all<br />

smaller with more seed in proportion to pulp so must be<br />

mixed with apples for puddings. And woe betide anyone<br />

who picks them after Michaelmas (<strong>September</strong> 29) as the<br />

devil himself will have spat on them and untold misfortune<br />

will be heaped on the poorly informed blackberry eater.<br />

While jam supplies exceed demand the same can’t be<br />

said for my sloe gin. No winter walk or bike ride would<br />

be the same without a hip flask of the stuff – and, unlike<br />

the jam, it also makes a welcome Christmas present.<br />

But Dorothy is rather sniffy about its virtues. While she<br />

mentions its recent adoption into modern cocktails –<br />

don’t forget we’re talking 1954 – she’s equally keen to<br />

point out that it was previously used by country wives in<br />

connubial emergencies! The mind boggles. Chin-chin.<br />

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