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10 LOCAL LIVES
"Just to let you Teachers see things differently
know about the In our September edition, we talked to Munal Hackney and Peggy Doekson,
diet I've lost two American teachers, who spent a yearteaciiing at Freshbrook School. This
pounds!" ENISE' month we meet Ann Fisher and Alice Warne, two teachers from Freshbrook
who exchanged their jobs and went to Minnesota.
DRAPES
'7 said yoa "We've been so busy since coming
could do it with Professionally made back to England, can you meet us
before school starts; come along at
the help of a FESTOON & 8am," said Ann on the telephone.
AUSTRIAN BLINDS
Cambridge It turned out that Ann and Alice
Friendly personal
Counsellor." had become quite used to early
Ot- ~ service from
morning meetings. They always
measuring to hanging. arrived at their respective schools in
the (7iibr!de Diet
40 Also made to Stillwater, Minnesota by 7am and
DEVELOPED BY DOCTORS OVER 20 YEARS measure curtains. regularly attended meetings at
For details of your local Counsellor,
call Rebecca Clifforde (Westlea) Telephone 6.30am. No matter whether it was
on 873201 Swindon 770600 I fifty degrees below and heavy snow
in the depth of winter, school al-
ways opened.
Sugaring parents who worked in Ann's school
On one occasion all the volunteer
were given a barbeque breakfast at
Ladies! Are you tired of unwanted facial and body hair, 6.30am, cooked by the staff to say
then why not try the ancient technique called 'Sugaring'. thank-you for all their efforts.
Celebration was one of the most Alice Warne and Ann Fisher
A safe and natural way of hair removal. It is not waxing
striking aspects of life in the U.S.A. grated at a school level. "Ordinary
or electrolysis and there are no creams used. for both teachers. "They celebrate people are much more involved in
far more than we do," said Ann. their schools because they pay taxes
To find out more about this unique beauty treatment,
"There was always something to directly into the education system,"
telephone Joanne Lister your local Zahra practitioner on look forward to and we were al- said Ann. "Education varies across
Swindon 613484 (24 hour answer machine). ways having a party of some kind. the whole country because of this,
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valen- but in Minnesota, education is held
I am also a qualified beauty therapist doing tine's, even the 100th day in school. in very high esteem and is geared
make up, manicure and pedicure etc. Everybody was involved and the towards achieving high standards
events were integrated into school for all. The able are pushed along
I will do home visits anywhere. work and school life." through a 'discovery programme,'
Alice described the contrast be- and the less able and disadvantaged
tween Grandparent's Day here and are given a lot of help from learning
there. "Grandparent's Day passes support teachers, social workers and
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quietly here. At my school, all the psychologists attached to the
grandparents were invited in and schools."
FramingL spent the day talking with the chil- Returning to Britain has taken
dren and answering questions." some getting used to for both
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Schools are financed and control- families here and we notice such a
(NE AR THE P ATT WA V CT Ah1fl1) led by local communities in the sadness of spirit in Britain," said
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U.S.A. and the two teachers saw at Ann. "People appear tobe under so
first hand how the local education much pressure and there seems to
'bureaucracy' was so closely inte- bea sense of emptiness all around."
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