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No Christmas Schoolwork connects with business

break for Homeline Students at Greendown
With Christmas occurring on a Community School have been
Monday, most of the country is tackling two design projects set
likely to shut down on Friday by local vehicle management
22nd for nearly a week. However, company PHH
one service committed to caring The students have worked on
for people will be on call without the pieces since the summer term.
a break. One class of CDT (Craft, Design
Homeline provides an and Technology) students had the
emergency telephone support task of designing the ideal
service to 1,200 people in the company car for the year 2,000,
Thamesdown area. Using an when they themselves will be 24
ordinary telephone with some or 25.
modifications, people who live Another class has been
alone or are at risk are in constant producing a range of ceramic
contact with a control centre 'executive gifts', ranging from
which can alert the emergency paper weights to hand thrown
services or send out a warden to decorative vases bearing the
provide assistance. company logo. Linus Leu sits in front of a car of the future dash-board mock-up
Homeline co-ordinator Steve CDT teacher Leo Norris said surrounded by students with some of their work
Wakefield says the service is on the project was harder than the Employers like PHH require high had organised themselves. "They
call 365 days a year and is youngsters expected. "They were quality work, so it's important to had avery business-like approach
available to owner occupiers and doing the project as part of the work that littlebit harder to finish with a lot of research and
discussion taking place before
council house tenants. "We enrichment programme which a job well."
answer about 1,000 calls a month, means they were taking an extra PHH AllStar' s marketing setting pen to paper. I saw some
most of which are not emergency. class in their own time. It's the manager Dianne Edgar very creative and innovative
But for example, we lift 20 to 30 kind of work they will be doing commented that she was ideas; I'm looking forward to
people back into bed or their for GCSE in their fifth year." impressed by how the students seeing the results ."
wheelchair and quite often alert Art Teacher Eric Bullion added,
the electricity board because of a "They've had to get to grips with GWR Majorettes Christmas Bazaar
power failure. Homeline never new materials and craft
takes a break." techniques in ceramics; it's tested Saturday 9 December, 2p.m.
To find out more about their perseverance. The students
Thamesdown Homeline, have also had to understand the Freshbrook Community Centre
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