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4 TOOTHILL
A mass sing-in and continuous Day of Music at school
RALPH piano play at Toothill School at
the end of November raised over
PALMER £300 for school funds.
The whole school took part in
PHARMACY the sing song according to teacher
3 Deerhurst Way, Linda Rankin. "We were looking
Toothill for a sponsored event idea as we
need another computer. The
Hours of Opening: children enjoy singing so we went
for it. They and their parents
Mon - Fri responded magnificently. The
9a.m. - 1p.m. hail won't take all 450 children in
2p.m. - 6p.m. school so we had two shifts with
the infants singing for half an
Sat. 9a.m. -12 noon hour and later the juniors sang
for an hour."
Telephone: 512063 In addition to sponsored
singing, members of staff took it
in turns to tinkle the ivories
between 9a.m. and 3p.m. "The Linda Rankin at the piano with joint organiser Nichola Hoare (standing
piano was played continuously at the rear) and some the youngsters who sang their way to £300
TO village throughout the day, all during
P.E. lessons and the lunchbreak.
ffarm1jop spirit of the day. It was a lot of Staff organise centre bazaar
"Everybody entered into the
fun." said Mrs Rankin. A Christmas Bazaar at Toothill Community Centre in December
Unit 2, Toothill Village raised £90 for centre funds.
Centre, Toothill. The Bazaar organised by the
staff who work at the centre also
Tel: 487777 allowed the Dunwich Drive and
Toothill Farm playgroups, the
MtE ITOZ! Good Companions pensioners
club and the centre lunch club to
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RESOLUTION activities. Around 200 people
attended the event.
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Pictured left, the staff who
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(11(54fDIcrIoWL right, Alison Wellard, Sue George,
Mary Brooks, Diane Richards,
F29IL9'TC5(ER Robina Winslow, committee
member Maggie Heath, Patsy
ô SELECT Williams, Kelly George, Kelly
Hitchens and Maxine Jeacock

Dinosaur discoveries
'14'1E 'TSIWfI( Youngsters at Toothill School collecting information about the the cafe or on the door, others
WE'RE THE F/ES'T spent part of last term finding out age of the dinosaurs, drawing, were scientists and guides," said
all about dinosaurs and writing and studying the sizes of Ms Flute. "The whole topic went
IijiE WEyr comparing their living conditions the creatures of the past. They very well; the children did some
with the present. also looked at their habitat and marvellous work and had some
COME INAND Th'T One hundred and twenty compared their structure with the fun doing it."
middle and top infants took part way humans are built. Below: Matthew Catt from Tattershall
US 'TO THE 'EsT in the topic which involved Jane Flute, one of the teachers and Hilary Sproule of Affleck Close
involved in the project, described draw pictures of dinosaurs
how one group of children came
Toothill Chinese Kitchen in one day to be confronted by a
pile of bones in the classroom.
English Food and Fish & Chips "They quickly decided that it was
a human from the skull. After a
Special Chinese Food lot of discussion about the
different sizes of the bones, they
'Take-Away Menu were able to work out how to put
it together. The staff quickly
Tel: 487055 dubbed the skeleton the 'previous
teacher'."
Hours of Business At the end of the project, the
Sunday 6- 1130pm four classes involved turned part
Monday Closed all day of the school into a museum,
Tuesday 5- 1130pm following a visit to the Natural
Wednesday 12-1.45pm 5-11.30pm History Museum in London.
Thursday 12-1.45pm 5-11.30pm 7arents were invited to visit our
Friday 12- 145pm 5- 12.00am museum and each pupil took on
Saturday 12 - 2.00pm 5 - 12.00am
a different role - in the shop, in