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24    The Link Magazine • January 1998
                                                                Sleep out              Infants school
            GARY WILKINSON
                                                              experience              get good marks
         Car Body Repairs and Paint Spraying
              M.o.T. Repairs and Welding                  Youngsters from Bradon Forest  Education inspectors from Ofsted
                     Free Estimates                       School spent a chilly night out in  describe Toothill's Oliver
                                                          December at Purton Village Hall  Tomkins Infants School as 'a good
       Unit 12 Brindley Close Cheney Manor Industrial Estate Swindon
                                                          trying to find out what it is like to  school providing a caring and
    'fl 01793421125                   $ O86O8O8O6l        be homeless and sleeping rough.  well-ordered environment in
                                                            Year 10 group coordinator Kate  which pupils feel happy and con-
                                                          Cousins said members of the  fident' in a report published in
                                                          school's Youth Action Group had  mid-December.
                                                          watched a video on homelessness.  It adds, 'it is a self-important
                                                          "We had no idea of what it was  school, committed to target set-
                 Property Maintenance                     really like so we decided to sleep  ting and evaluation of its work as
                                                          out. We have clothing, we'll have  a means to raise standards of at-
     Painter & Decorator • SpeciaHist Artexing            breakfast and we'll go back to a  tainment.' The good behaviour of
                                                          warm house, but the homeless will  pupils, their attitude to learning
             lephone: (01793) 791                         be out every night. I hope we will  and the management of the cur-
                                                          understand more in future."  riculum by the staff is also a
                                                           Front: Kate Cozens, Anne Dunn.  strength.
                                                            Back: Emma Grant, Lorna New  The report gives credit to the
                     FIVE STAR                                                       committed and conscientious lead
                                                                                     given by the headteacher and her
                     PROPERTY                                                        deputy, and the supportive, well
                                                                                     informed governing body.
                                                                                       Attainment in English, maths
                     MAINTENANCE                                                     and science is as expected or good,
         Insurance work undertaken                                                   but aspects of design and informa-
                                                                                     tion technology is unsatisfactory.
      General maintenance contracts                                                    The budget is efficiently and
                                                                                     prudently managed and there is
      For all your painting, decorating, tiling &                                    good value for money.
                                                                                       As a church school, the gover-
                y
      earnentr  requirements. contact Keith on                                       nors are pleased the report recog-
                                                                                     nises the central aspect of its Chris-
                                                                                     tian ethos which results in good
                                                                                     spiritual, moral, social and cultural
                                                                                     development of pupils.













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