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6 WESTLEA
Journey through the musicals at school Xmas show
The evenings of the 8, 9 and 10 of and F.
December saw the culmination of The whole 'journey' was ex-
months of effort come to fruition at tremely colourful with brilliant cos-
the Westlea School Christmas pro- tumes and scenery and all the songs
duction entitled 'A journey through were beautifully performed.
Musicals,' written by headteacher All the teachers tookpart and were
Neil Griffiths. the nuns in 'The Sound of Music'.
The whole venture was a spec- Sister Gertrude looked remarkably
tacular extravaganza of entertain- like Mr Griffiths, as did one of the
ment - a very ambitious project belly dancers in the 'Joseph ..' musi-
which, due to the amazing hard cal.
work and dedication of the pupils, Could this be the start of a new
staff and parents, succeeded beyond career?
all expectation. Everyone agreed that the whole
Every class was involved and each performance was magnificent with
was represented by its own particu- everyone giving of their best.
lar musical, seven in all. A genie
Sabrina Cummings and Jordan Blake doing The Lambada called 'Lacisum' (musical back- Sheila Mitchell
in front of the rest of Mrs Cox's class wards) took two children called Ben looks after
and Lucy on a journey through
musicals beginning with 'Bugsy The Link magazine's
Scout hike it across the downs Malone' then through 'Chitty, Westlea page.
The Marlborough Downs was the Swindon atthe end of the event. No Chitty, Bang, Bang', 'MaxyPoppins', If you have a story,
venue for a hike by many of the doubt plenty of washing machines 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Joseph and His
Scout packs in the District on the 5 were working overtime on Sunday AmazingTechnicolour Dreamcoat', contact her
and 6 December. evening to cope with cleaning all the 'The Sound of Music' until they on 873062
Scouts from the 1st Westlea Scout muddy kit. reached the final musical 'The King
Pack hiked around a wet and muddy The following weekend the scouts
course, but everyone who took part had the opportunity to demonstrate
seemed to enjoy themselves. The their sporting prowess in the 'Super Dad runs to raise playgroup cash
scouts spent the night of Saturday in Scout Sports Evening' held on the 12

the Marlborough Scout Hut before December at the Croft Sports Cen-
commencing the second day of the tre. A variety of sporting activities
hike. The sodden and dirty, but had been arranged and all those who
happy scouts, returned to West took part acquitted themselves well.

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funds to provide Westlea Playgroup, to be able to take part in the London
where his son, Michael is a pupil, Marathon.
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