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18 NEWS & VIEWS
Design wins award from national company
Three students at Greendown School a 'Design in the High Street' De- selling their goods. The teams could parties to be involved in education
were presented with a platinumdisc sign/Technology project which re- study interior environment of shops and the approach to learning at
on 13 December for their work on quired them to work in teams to or systems for displaying products. Greendown deals with problems
designinga record presentation rack. look atthe problems businesses have During the ten week project, stu- faced by people in the real world."
All the Year 9 students took part in to face when designing shops and dents visited the W.H. Smith head- He said the winning entry of an
quarters at Greenbridge and the in-store record display rack made
company's Swindon store to see how byLoulse Mackie, Nicola Forderand
shops are designed and products Andrea Popjoy had followed the

GARY; are marketed. Brian Won-all, head brief closely and their work showed
of music marketing, spent time in how they had researched the project,
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Celebrating trees Card winner
Six yea rold Michelle Steadman from
Godolphin Close, Freshbrook en-
FREE DAILY tered a colouring competition run
by Texaco depicting a scene from
DELIVERIES their road safety campaign, 'Chil-
dren should be seen and not hurt.'
IN WEST Her entry was one of three se-
LO lected to be made into Christmas
SWINDON cards and sold in aid of the National
Childrens' Home.
The Windmill Hill School pupil
HOTLINE © 613391 and her family had a day in London
which included a shopping trip to
Harrod's where she had £100 to
(24 hour answering service) spend on toys.
Michelle's mother Sue helps out
Plus full range of LPG appliances at the WestSwindon Family Project,
an NCH family support scheme ac-
- cookers, fires, lights, cabinet heaters Ready for decorations to be displayed at tive in the area.
Brook Field, beck row from left, Robert Michelle with one of her cards
Mills, Matthew Edwards, Lucy
Visit Our Showroom Gammage, Krystle Cinquegrani, Ni-
cholas Hypolite. Front, Helen Raine,
Swindon Calor Gas Centre Gemma Ratcliffe, Jade Dixon
Bridge End Road, Swindon Three local schools took part in the
tree dressing weekend in early De-
Open Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm cember. Pupils at Shaw's Brook
Field Primary and Westlea Primary
Sat 9am - 12 noon and Greendown schools decorated
trees to celebrate the value of trees to
QF Thamesdown were dressed by
life on earth. Trees all over
Crus ink Field had help from artist Marie Brett
schools and community groups.
Children in Year I and 2 at Brook
to prepare decorations depicting the
sun, moon and the stars.