HELLO everyone! I hope that you had a lovely Christmas and New Year and are all looking forward to the year ahead.

We start the new year with the great news that children at the Griffin Nursery School in Salisbury made sure that youngsters in other countries who are less fortunate also had a Christmas present.

They collected 26 shoeboxes filled with presents to be sent to children living in Eastern Europe who otherwise might not have got any presents at all.

It was a great effort and I’m sure it made lots of children very happy.

This week we are finding out about how Brownies from Bishopdown have been caring for animals, learning all about them, and raising money for charity, and you could win tickets to see the Snowman at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton.

See you next week,

Jill