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25th Jan - 1st Feb

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Coming up next week...  A blog on a Thursday? Welcome to the new regime. The blog will hopefully posted on a Thursday from now on, sorry if it throws people, but as the saying goes, Thursday is the new Friday! Let's see what is coming up this week... Cell Groups!  Cell groups are on again this week, year 7-9 will be having the cell on friendship. Cells from year 10 upwards will be starting to plan for the cell celebration coming up on the 10th February. Year 7 - Monday 7:30 - 9:00 Year 8 - Monday 7:00- 8:30 Year 9 - Thursday 7:30 - 8:45  Year 10 - Monday 5:30 - 7:00 Year 11 - Wednesday 7:45 - 9:00 Year 12/13 - Friday 3:30 - 5:00 Younger and Older Friday Pathfinders Younger Pathfinders: I hope you are all parched, as tomorrow (25th) is THIRSTY Meeples (get it? Parched...like being thirsty...HAHA) so come ready for board game heaven. Feel free to bring any you like. Next week (1st Feb) is the indoor olympics night

18th-25th Jan

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Coming up next week...  Another week completed, and another week closer to half term. Olly and I have been busy doing office work planning lots of exciting stuff for you all, read on to find out what is coming up this week... Cell Groups!  Cell groups are on again this week, year 7-9 will be having another social, because socials are great. We will also be asking you for ideas of topics to discuss this term so come with suggestions.  Years 10, 11, 12 and 13 will be doing a session on friendship. Year 7 - Monday 7:30 - 9:00 Year 8 - Monday 7:00- 8:30 Year 9 - Thursday 7:30 - 8:45  Year 10 - Monday 5:30 - 7:00 Year 11 - Thursday 5:30 - 6:45 Year 12 - TBC Year 13 - Friday 3:30 - 5:00 Younger and Older Friday Pathfinders Younger Pathfinders: Tonight (18th) is classic games night, some of you year 7s may have never played them, but trust me, they are classic. Next week (25th) is "thirsty meeples" Older Pathfi

Jan 11th - 18th

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Coming up next week...  Congrats, you made it. First week back after the Christmas holidays is always a struggle but you have done it. Now it's time to get back to nitty gritty of our Youthwork, and as some of you may know, there has been a major change. Olly has moved to a part time job in the church to take up an exciting new venture with the Diocese of Oxford, meaning that myself (Steven Dobson/Dobbo) have been employed to work alongside him. This is my first official blog so please be kind! Your leaders have been busy attending meetings all week but lets look at what is coming up this week... Cell Groups!  Cell groups start again this week, year 7-9 are going to be having a social, year 10, 11 and 13 are going to also be having a social but with a discussion about how last term went and plans for this term, and year 12 will be having a session on Gender as this is what they asked for! Here is a reminder of your cell times for those of you who have forgotte

4th - 11th January

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Coming up next week...  Happy New Year and welcome to 2019!! I hope every has had a great Christmas time and enjoyed what ever you were doing. Feel free to boast about any exploits, but not too much or we might get jealous. Look below for our big news of 2019 (if you haven't heard it already) and also to find out what is happening with the youth work in the coming week...  News... You may have heard this already, but as of the 7th January Olly Shaw (our faithful old  young, youth worker) is being seconded to the Diocese of Oxford, part time, to work as a Pioneer Deanery Youth Minister. He will be exploring ways to support rural churches in their work with young people for 15 hours a week!  In order to make sure sure everything still gets done, Steven Dobson has been employed to fill those 15 hours and work part time alongside Olly in heading up the youth work.  For those of you who do not know Steven, he has been a part of St. Leonard's Youth for a very l