Category: 2021 posts
Monarch’s Way ride – Friday update from Mr Roche to the school
Thanks for your email and we are glad that you have enjoyed these updates to our and King Charles’ stories. By the time you read this we hope to have visited you all at school today and talked to you about our adventures. This message is just to continue telling our story from yesterday. On…
Read MoreMonarch’s Way ride – Thursday update from Mr Roche
Yesterday we started cycling from Winchester heading east. You will remember that we arrived at Winchester (once the ancient capital city of England), from Salisbury following the path taken by King Charles II on the trek that he made on his way to France. He wanted to escape pursuit and capture by the armies of…
Read MoreMonarch’s Way ride – Wednesday update from Mr Roche to the school
Now where were we with our story? Ah yes …. our monarch, King Charles the second, was fleeing to France pursued by his old enemy Oliver Cromwell, who had at his command the parliamentarian army….. and our modern day collection of cyclists are following in the King’s footsteps (or those of his horse). By the…
Read MoreMonarch’s Way ride – Tuesday update from Mr Roche
On Tuesday Mr Roche sent the following message to the school. Yesterday we cycled from Wincanton to Salisbury. What we have learned is that not a lot happened to Charles II on this leg of his journey and we are pleased to say that not a lot happened to us either: no breakdowns or tyre…
Read MoreMonarch’s Way ride update from Mr Roche to the school
Hello from all of us as we set off on this week’s biking adventure. Today we start our ride from Wincanton in Somerset on our quest to join you all at school on Friday morning (we hope). Yesterday ten of us travelled here by car from Findon to stay overnight before we set off this…
Read MoreMay Monarch’s Way ride in aid of Findon school PTA
FGCC to ride the Monarch’s Way – in aid of Findon St John the Baptist school’s PTA …for new playground markings and other projects for the children At the end of May (2021), pandemic allowing, a group of trusty cyclists from the Findon Gentlemen’s Cycling Club, several of whom have close connections to the Governing Body at Findon…
Read More2020 Bling award
Sadly the continuing pandemic has meant that presentation of the 2020 Bling stats could only be carried out virtually rather than in the splendid company of gentlemen of the FGCC in one of our local hostelries. Our Blingmeister with typical gentlemanly understatement simply transmitted the stats in an unusual format that no one could open…
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