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The Link Magazine. March1993
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Opt-out plan voted down by parents Turning musical
ideas into
A narrow margin of 13 parent votes should opt-out of Wiltshire County ballot parents, or are discussing the
has prevented West Swin. sec- Council control after a parent peti- implications of going grant main- recordings
ondary school becoming Grant tion in November calling for the tained.
Maintained. vote. All secondary schools are facing A unique facility is available to mu-
Parents at Greendown School The result announced on 8 Febru- major cuts in their 1993/94 alloca- sicians living in and around West
were ballotted on whether the school ary showed that just 52% of parents tion from Wiltshire County Council Swindon.
had sent their voting papers back to which has slashed M million from The music studio at Greendown
the Electeral Reform Society who its secondary schools budget. Gov- School is available after school, at
ZAHRA conducted the ballot, 2% more than ernors at Greendown are consider- weekends and on the holidays to
the required number for the vote to ing a budget reduction of £100,000 anybody working on music projects,
SUGARING be declared valid. and are looking closely at where less from preparing GCSE exam work
299 voted in favour of the school money can be spent. As staff costs through to preparing demo tapes to
The most effective and going Grant Maintained but 312 make up some 85% of the annual send off to record producers.
natural method of hair voted against the idea. expenditure, teachers redundancies
removal. Suitable for all The Greendown result means that may have to be considered.
parts of the body. parents at four Swindon schools
BEAUTY - where grant maintained status bal-
lots have taken place have decided
zahp.,i Fun and football
THERAPIST to go against the recommendation planned for May
of their school governors and to stay
I H. B. C. under the Wiltshire wing. Six A day of football fun is planned for
Make-up, manicure, pedicure schools in other parts of the county Satun:1ay22 May when the firstever
have already broken away or have West Swindon Football Festival
Ring Joanne on (0793) 613484. voted to do so. Several secondary takes place at Greendown School.
Home visits if required schools in the town have agreed to Organised by Westside United
J football club in conjunction with the
school, there will be competitions in
five categories, from under lOs
1 G'rrq through to under 14s. Eighty teams
$DT7
fromall over Wiltshire and Glouces-
tershire are expected to take part.
Designer Knitwear made to order.
Also being organised for the day
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equipment includes an eight track
tape machine, 16 track mixing desk
and an Atari computer linked to a
Commonweal School CLab notator.
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