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SORE, TIRED, Grounds of importance in schools • Summer Fete
The children at Oliver Tomkins Infant and Junior Schools celebrated • Saturday8 June
ACHING FEET? National Schools Grounds Day on 3 May by undertaking a sponsored 2pm to 4pm
Pick up the phone and book observation. Tóothlfl Farm Centre
Bodiam Drive, Toothill.:
your appointment with Armed with question sheets about for learning. The day ended with • Bouncy castles face paintings
Martin Drew MBcHA, MSSch their school environment, and su- tea and cakes for parents who were cake stalls, tombola, crafts,.
pervised by volunteer parents, the able to see what their children had
CHIROPODIST refreshments I:
children roamed around the school been doing in their observations.
Table top sale: Tobook 612901
Home visit service or come looking for answers.
Orgaised ki so ohloothIl pitar $choal 0110 0
to our modern town centre Infant School deputy head Sue Soggy staff
surgery Marshall said the day aimed to
raise awareness about the impor- The supervisors at Toothill Farm
Tel: (01193) 511284 anytime , tance of school grounds as a place Playgroup put themselves at the
Verruca Specialist • Ingrown Nall mercy of their children in a spon-
Keen eyed children from Jo Bush's
Corn & Callous • Fungal coniltionS sored 'soak the staff.' Exposing
class at Oliver Tomkins Infants,from
Lower limb problems • Walking themselves to wet sponges on a
left, Oliver Smith, Steven Cresszvell,
wfficumes (all treated) • Foot appliance!/ chilly day in early May, the chil-
Thomas Fuller, Amy Moore, Alice
Wiltshire, Callian Harris, James dren ignored all the cuddles,
Holder bribary and biscuits used to per-
Same Day Local suade them not to take aim.
Right: Playgroup supervisors at the
Plumbing Services mercy of their children, from left,
• House water problems and Andrea t'Jevitt, Tina Lewington,
central heating Olwen Northzvai
• The playgroup has vacancies for
• Washing machines installed
3 to 5 year olds. Call Tina on
• Power showers installed
511675 for more information
• Bathroom installations
• Dripping taps and leaks
• Burst pipes, etc. Development and the church in
• Dishwashers
• Outside taps West Swindon and further afield
A&M Services George Gibson, Minister of Toothill Church and Free Church
Minister for the Ecumenical Parish of West Swindon & The
24 hour response
Lydiards, compares experiences of living on a new estate.
Tel: 874240 The articles in last month's 20th wards the congregation atToothill
Anniversary Link magazine moved into its permanent build-
brought back many memories for ing at Toothill Village Centre.
me of being amongst the first in a However, there were two very an-
new road in a cient churches -
large housing All Saints at
scheme; about L y d i a r d
mud that never Millicent and St
seemed to disap- Mary's
at
pear; about the Lydiard Park -
doctor struggling already serving
through that the villages,
LOOK and LISTEN before you commit yourself to any
same mud to de- hamlets and
major home improvement. New windows, doors and
liver my baby sis- farms of the
especially a new conservatory ter; about mobile area, and also
can transform your home... shops and a the Methodist
but it's worth using this CHECIJJST. church meeting Chapel at Old
in a hut. Shaw Lane.
simple checklist:
/IJ CHOICE This wasn't 20 Now the
Are they Offering a good
range of designs and Various years ago in Wilt- chapel has been
locking O0on5?
shire, but 40 replaced by the
years ago in Scot- church at Shaw
Z.
0R -PUr ArION' /S it Weilknown land, and I share the view of Village Centre, our fifth worship
LOCAL firm, well established
with a reputation to protect? Toothill's longest residents that centre is at Westlea School, and we
mine, too, was a good place for a hope to develop a congregation in
family to grow up. the Roughmoor area.
0 QUALITy.
Are the products they As at Toothill, our wooden hut We are glad to have been serv-
install Supplied by a major
national manufact was also soon replaced by a church ing West Swindon from before the
AVAVAYA
like
Coastal? building designed to serve the beginning, and wish all our fellow
community. While we were in the residents a happy next 20 years!
0 GUAP.A.RJ.LC .,
my investment hut we were called 'St Andrew's • Toothill Church will be moving
Properly protected?
(South),' in recognition of the spon- into Toothill Community Centre
sorship by one of the town centre on 16 June whilst major structural
churches. I still have fond memo- repairs are carried out. Newcom-
ries of that hut, and the permanent ers who would like to discover the
ERMIN WINDOWS building which replaced it. church in a new setting will be
In last month's Link the builders made very welcome. A reopening
Call Brian Smith on 824419
hut at Toothill was mentioned, date will be announced later. Call
along with Olive King, the church George Gibson for details on
A supplier and installer of
Windows doors and conservatories
worker at that time. Soon after- 692620.