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6 WESTLEA

Westlea School One last push for Play and education together
£2,000
Wild West
Prizes worth £250 wilibe won when
Bonna a raffle aimed at raising cash for the
special needs unit at Westlea School
Saturday 30 June is drawn in early July.
2pm - 4pm The closing date for the raffle,
sponsored by West Swindon based
featuring insurance brokers Mansfield Begbie
The Dixie Rebels Associates, is 21 June. However
tickets will be on sale at the Westlea
School Wild West Day on Saturday
Pony Rides, Archery,
30 June. If all tickets are sold £2,000
Raffle, Tombola, Lucky will be have been raised to buy
Programme, Auction, special equipment and materials
Western Headress for children with learning
Competition difficulties.

A joint effort from left to right tanding Brenda Moody, Jan Kilby, Doreen Connor,
Carol Belson, Sue Russell, Susan Care, Chris Woodward. Front, Suzannah Fisher,
LEARN TO DRIVE Alison Barrett, Rebecca Clifforde, Jo Collins, Sarah Rodwell
A new library of educational have re-discovered or developed
materials has opened for parents skills we didn't know we had,"
Tr
MODERN L. ALAN COLLICT and young children in Westlea. said one. "Now the library is open,
Based in the PATCH room at we're startingon the next fifty packs
DRIVING 0793 - 872244 Westlea School, the library allows and keeping the ones available for
TECHNIQUES INDIVIDUAL TUITION the educational opportunities loan up together."
created in the room to be extended The Play Pack Library is open in
into the home environment. thePATCH roomat Westlea School
A group of parents have been on Friday afternoons from2.15p.m.
For a short cut, via Downing Street, to a more working over the last year making to 330p.m.
prosperous retirement, cut this out.

play packs which can be taken
home. So far fifty have been made
RING SS 18,11 and a further 50 are planned. Each Safe play area wanted
.55 or write to the address below. play pack is based on a theme to Westlea Playgroup is looking
"Please contact me to discuss in stimulate a child's imagination and forward to the day when it has a
detail my pension planning" encourage discussion between clean and safe outside play area.
10 parent and child. Subjects like The group was promised a
Name colours, numbers, words, animals, rubberised safety surface in the year
Address objects of interest are all included. starting April 1989. So supervisor
Post Code The packs contains a variety of Barbara Frost was very surprised
Tel. No. items such as a book, toys, crayons, when the play area was relayed
RING paper, things to count and also a with black tar by Thamesdown
John Phillips, Abbey Life, 1st Floor, suggestion card which gives Council. "I obviously protested
Beaver House, 147 -150 Victoria Road, parents idea of how to use the but was told that the job was well
contents. done. As soon as we had warm
Swindon. Tel: 531293
L A member of LAUTRO Headteacher Neil Griffiths who weather in March our shoes and
has set up the PATCH room to toys started sinking into it and
Maggie and the taxman create better links between parents, children were getting tar on their
teachers and pre-school children clothes. " said Barbara.
are queuing up to give described the play packs as "The playgroup committee
you a pension present invaluable in helping parents wrote several letters to the council
prepare their children for school. and in the end had to contact a local
No, this is neither a hoax nor an hallucination; it's hard "Some children come into school councillor. Now we're told that the
financial fact. with limited pre-school experience, safety surface will be laid in a few
The Government will be giving you a golden handshake of
up to £1600 to help you start a personal pension of your own. and poor language development. weeks time."
As if that weren't enough even the Inland Revenue are The room has a range of high Barbara Frost shows off the ruts in thei
proving outgoing. quality, expensive equipment play area with Scott Franklyn and Emma
They're offering tax relief on all your pension and life which children don't often have Collins
assurance contributions to build up in a tax free fund. access to.
At Abbey Life we can help you take full advantage of this "The mums have put so much
unexpected bonus by offering you a pension plan from our time and care into making the play
range of Leading Edge Pensions. packs. They've done a magnificent
All in all, what one might call a premier personal pension. job and so have the mums who
looked after the children whilst the
others could work on the packs.
"The packs offer so many rich
experiences which parents can
build upon with their children to
stimulate language, manipulative,
creative, mathematical and social
skills."
None of the fifteen parents who
have worked together were willing
Abbey Life, the right choice for pensions to be quoted as all had contributed
equally to the project. "Many of us