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Caretaker Post Opportunity – St. Mark’s School

Are you passionate about providing the best start for children?

If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for an energetic and motivated Caretaker to join our team to help us ensure that our school provides a safe, welcoming and purposeful environment for children, staff and visitors.

The children, staff and governors of St Mark’s CEP School are looking for a practical and well-motivated person for the post of Caretaker to join our team of committed staff.

We are very proud of our building so we especially want someone who will really care for our school, ensuring it looks its best, is safe and exemplifies the high expectations we have of our children.
The role will include a wide range of responsibilities and duties connected with the fabric of the building, health and safety, grounds and facilities maintenance and security.

You will need to:

• be a hands on individual who can develop and implement systems/procedures as well as maintain current ones.
• be sympathetic to environmental concerns regarding the school and grounds
• contribute to projects and maintenance schedules
• be practical, with good DIY skills.

We can offer:

• a school with happy, polite children
• good professional development opportunities/training, together with extra hours during holidays for larger maintenance projects

Hours: 7 hours per week, with additional hours available during school holidays
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Scale 4 point 10 £19,312 pro rata
Required: To start 19.7.21
Contact finance@st-marks.e-sussex.sch.uk for full job description and application form.
Tel: 01825 830375
Website: http://www. st-marks-hadlowdown.co.uk

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Hort.Soc. 2021 Annual Show

We are pleased to announce that the Horticultural Society have decided to go ahead with this years Annual Show.
In order to create more space for people to move around the tables in line with Covid-19 guidelines some of the usual categories in the show schedule have been cut.  There will be no ‘Pot Plant’, ‘Craft’, or ‘Children’s’ categories.  Please see the schedule for other changes.
Hopefully refreshments will be available in a gazebo outside the hall.

Please click here to see or download the Entry Form & Rules
And click here for the Schedule

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Hort. Soc. Visit to King John’s Lodge

Hadlow Down Horticultural Society members are planning a car visit to King John’s Lodge in Etchingham  on Thursday June 24th..
This trip to the extensive and impressive gardens is the first opportunity for members to meet up since lockdown and we’re sure there will be a lot of conversational catching up to do which will be enjoyed in the excellent cafe in the grounds.  There is also an “Aladdin’s Cave” of a shop and a very good nursery to browse round after visiting the gardens.
All garden loving villagers are invited to join members and talk about other gardens and other Hort. Soc. activities.
Anyone who wants to join us we will meet at the cafe at 10.30 am.  Please just let Heather know you’re coming at heathermines2@hotmail.com and  turn up on the day.  The cost is £6.50 per person

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May Book Club Review

The Hadlow Down Book Club Review of the book for May can now be found on the Book Club pages.

Book Club Review – “Klara and the Sun”

The Sun was always very kind to me. He was always kind to me from the start.

This month’s book is “Klara and the Sun” by Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro. I had looked forward to reading this as I really loved “Never Let me Go” when the book club read it some years ago and I knew that the two books had much in common, with their dystopian setting and their themes of sacrifice, solitude and exploitation.

Click here to go to Book Club pages and see full review

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History of Hadlow Down Village Hall

A history of our village hall has been added to the Village Trust Pages:
Hadlow Down’s first village hall, although not named as such, was a large hut obtained from the YMCA and erected on land donated by the Eridge Estate; it was always known as ‘the Hut’ or ‘the Red Triangle Hut’ after its previous owners’ symbol.

To read the full article click here.