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WRIGHT Popular playgroup under pressure

PLANNING The families who attend Westlea area and has had to reduce the
playgroup are beginning to suffer - sessions available to older children.
SERVICES because of its popularity. Ruth Girling, who chairs the
The 24 place playgroup, which volunteer management committee,
10 years experience meets in the Community Room at explained the problem. "With our
Westlea School is under pressure experienced staff and close contact
preparing High Quality
from another 'baby bulge' in the with the school we've built up a
Building Plans for West good reputation. But this popularity
Swindon residents Westlea School and families arriving in the new
Craft Market houses next to the Delta Tennis
Planning & Building Saturday 13 April, 10am 4pm Centre has meant more demand.
regulations approvals "Up to now we've offered a third
obtained Westlea School session in the week for children
Fashion Show
Call Steve Wright on Wednesday 24 April, 8pm nearing school age. For the time
being we are going to stop these
Tickets £1 (inclu. refreshments)
Swindon 871553 from the school office rising-five sessions so that children
on the waiting list can have places." It was Father's Day at the playgroup on
Playgroup secretary Alison 16 March. Kelly Rowan shows her dad
Barrett said that parents should not Dave how to play with Lego properly.
CLEANING ENTERPRISES be put off coming to the playgroup. have the opportunity."
"The committee has had to make a Parents who want to know more
(WROUGHTON) difficult choice and we have come about Westlea Playgroup should
For professional on-site cleaning of Carpets, down in favour of trying to visit the Community Room at
guarantee that children waiting to Westlea School and speak to the
Curtains, Upholstery and Vertical Blinds. enter playgroup when they are three supervisor Barbara Frost.

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with 93 year Bert Lancaster from Toothill
If so, DENPLAN CARE could be for you Three youngsters from Westlea fascinating details of war service
School who have been studying the which matched many of the things
Under DENPLAN CAREy0u budget for small monthly First World War made a visit last they had read and had been told
payments, spreading the cost of dental care over the year month to somebody who was about in school.
actually there. Maria said Bert was the oldest
t DENPLAN CAREgives you PRIVATE GENERAL Bert Lancaster, the 93 year old person she had met and could not
DENTAL CAREf0r an average cost of £8.75 per month from Toothill who we featured in quite believe that he had been in the
the February Link magazine Local war she had been studying. "Life in
A Discounts for families Lives page, gave Maria Chatfield, the trenches sounds awful, especially
James Douglas and Jodie Ruddle, a when he told us about them caving
tt DEN PLAN CARE has received accreditation from The first hand account of what it was like in after the winter."
British Dental Association to have lived during the trench For James, many of Bert's
campaigns over eighty years ago. memories confirmed what he had
For further details, contact The fourth year pupils have been read about. "He used some slang
Chris Parkinson B.D.S., V.U. (Manc) intensively studying the history of words which I had heard beforeand
Hook Street on the edge of West also some new ones."
Ramleaze House Swindon since last September. The pupils tape recorded their
Shaw Village Centre Increasingly their attention focussed discussions with Bert for the rest of
on John Thomas Titcombe, a man Mr
arrnan's fourth year class.
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MW on the war memorial. play bringing together what they
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Titcombe, they were given some last seven months.