9th March 2023 • The HERALD • Page 41 v THE NEXT HERALD IS OUT ON 30TH MARCH v KIDS ZONE e new Black eld & Langley YFC Soccer School is starting in May. Run by fully quali ed coaches, the soccer school is for boys and girls aged 4 to 7 years old. e sessions are purely based on children having fun, making friends and positive learning. Contact James Duell with any questions via email: james.blfcyouth@gmail.com or call: 07387734904. Coming Soon – Blackfield & Langley YFC Soccer School Hop along to Lepe Country Park between Saturday 1st and Sunday 16th April and take part in Lepe Country Park’s eggcellent Easter trail! Help Hazel the rabbit nd her friends. Can you unscramble all the clues on the bunny doors hidden around the Country Park? Trail packs are available from Visitor Services between 10am and 3pm daily at £3 each. Usual parking charges apply. LEPE, HOP AND HUNT WITH HAZEL e latest exciting partnership between Forestry England and Magic Light Pictures see’s everyone’s favourite dragon – based on the eponymous book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Sche er - returning to Forestry England forests across the UK including locally at Moors Valley Country Park. e new family activity trail and a free interactive app, developed by Arcade, will encourage your little dragons to learn about how they can care for the forest and how the forests can care for them! Zog is a loveable, if somewhat clumsy dragon at Madam Dragon’s school who is always striving to win a golden star. Zog learns lots of essential dragon skills including ying, roaring, and capturing princesses! Forestry England are once again inviting children into the forest to learn essential lessons just like Zog. Connecting with nature is essential for children’s wellbeing and the new interactive family trail and app invites children to play in the nation’s forests. Whilst playing, children will nd out more about forests and have the chance to interact with Zog and some of his fellow dragon students! Grab a Zog trail activity pack for only £4 before starting the trail for lots of fun things to do on your forest adventure. Children can channel their inner Zog by donning a pair of wings and completing fun challenges to collect golden stars. ey can also pop on the magic glasses to look for hidden letters along the way to solve a word puzzle. When reaching the end of the trail, they complete a crayon rubbing to get their certi cate and take a sel e with Zog! To complement the trail and to take your dragon training to the next level, there is also a brand new augmented reality app, ‘Zog: A Forest Adventure’, that is free to download. e app has lots of bonus activities to complete including a roar-ometer, a dance challenge and the chance to become Zog. Ellen Devine, Wellbeing Projects Manager said: “It’s so exciting to see that the new family activity trail is helping children to develop skills to care for their wellbeing and care for our forests! Playtime is so integral to children’s mental health, and they can also learn so many valuable lessons through play. The new Zog trail provides an excellent opportunity for children to get out in nature and to learn all the lessons that little dragons need to know! We are very excited to be working with Magic Light Pictures again and are looking forward to families having a new and exciting reason to visit the forest throughout the year.” Alex Sanson, Senior Brand Manager at Magic Light says: “Forestry England sites offer the perfect classroom for budding little dragons. The new Zog trails offer a great opportunity to young explorers to learn about all the wonderful ways our forests can look after us and how we can look after them. The AR app adds a fun extra element so that children can explore the character, the story and the forest in a new way.” Jon Meggitt, CEO at Arcade says:“Several of us at Arcade have young children and know first-hand just how much Zog means to them. Bringing him and his friends to life in magical AR, and giving families even more reasons to get out into forests across the country, has been one of the most exciting and rewarding projects we have worked on. We’re very proud of the result and can’t wait to see all the little dragons earning their golden stars just like Zog!” Further details of trails, app and free downloadable activity sheets are available from: www. forestryengland.uk/zog Join Zog on a Magical Forest Adventure Credit: Forestry England/Crown copyright Messy Church in Hythe e Parish of St. John the Baptist and St. Anne in Hythe are happy to be holding their Messy Church sessions again, including cra s, games, stories and food. Messy Church will take place at St Anne’s Church on the first Friday of the month and at St John’s Hall on the last Friday of the month. For more information or to o er to help please contact Chris via email: families@stjohnshythe.org or call: 023 8084 4336. A group of the original volunteers who helped to rebuild the Watercress Line following the closure of the railway in 1973 commemorated its 50th anniversary recently on Saturday 4th February. Around 50 volunteers gathered at Alresford Station where one of the last locomotives to run on the line, Hampshire Unit no 1125, was on display at the platform to commemorate this special occasion with a photograph. e last Hampshire Unit departure from the station was at 8.21pm on 4th February 1973. On the day, the horn was sounded at 8.21pm to mark the historic occasion. Many of the Watercress Line volunteers, who helped ensure the preservation of the railway a er it was closed by British Railways in 1973, took the opportunity to recall their memories of the early restoration activities. ese accounts will be recorded for the Watercress Line’s archives and used at historical events. e Hampshire Unit was on display at Alresford and the guests enjoyed relating tales of their work on the line to restore it to the heritage railway attraction it has become today. Watercress Line CEO Amanda Squires said: “It was such a pleasure to welcome many of our longest serving volunteers to the Watercress Line to mark this historic milestone in the railway’s history. The enthusiasm and pleasure that these dedicated volunteers still feel for the Watercress Line was very touching. Without their hard work, pulling together to help restore the line and its locomotives to their former glory, we would not have such a wonderful piece of railway heritage to share with present day visitors and future generations. On behalf of the Watercress Line, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the restoration of our much-loved railway.” Find out more about the fascinating history of the Watercress Line online at: watercressline.co.uk/ourhistory Over fifty volunteers with the Hampshire Unit at Alresford station Watercress Line Volunteers Mark Historic Golden Anniversary of its Takeover American Railways e Railway Club of the New Forest meet on Friday 24th March in the Forest Hall, Brockenhurst Village Hall, Highwood Road, Brockenhurst SO42 7RY. ey are pleased to welcome club member Bob Quinn to present his talk on ‘American Railways – North and South’. A pot-pourri of railway scenes taken between the late 1960s and the early 1990’s on several visits to Canada, USA, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile. e emphasis is on Steam traction, but Diesel and Electric traction also feature. It was all a long time ago! Visitors welcome. £5 on the door. Arrive from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. For more information please visit: railwayclubo henewforest.org
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