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This is Greendown • 4

Not bored with the Bard

Last November over 500 West Swindon primary school pupils saw Salisbury Playhouse perform Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream
in the Greendown Drama Studio and Senior Teacher Tim Noble, directed Westlea Year 6 in their own performance of the play.
Now we are going a stage fur- studying The Tempest as part of year 7 students are also produc- prospect of some excellent study
ther with bardolatry. In what we the new National Literacy strat- ing their version of the master- by children at our partner pri-
believe is the first of its kind in egy in Primary Schools while at piece. Then, injanuary next year, mary schools on the world's great-
Swindon, we are working with Greendown, all our year 7 stu- Salisbury Playhouse will give five est playwright.
seven of our partner primary dents will experience and stage performances for 600 West Swin-
schools to mount the West Swin- parts of the play in Drama & don's children.
don Schools' Shakespeare Festi- Enrichment sessions. In Decem- With £5,000 of generous spon-
val. ber this year, two classes from sorship from National Power, and
This autumn five hundred year Westlea will be acting The Tem- £1,000 from W.H.Smith to pro-
6 pupils in West Swindon are pest at Greendown. Sixty of our vide prizes of a day in Stratford
for the 16 pupils who do the best
work during the festival, we are
obviously very excited about the

Greek myths explored
with partner primary
Primary liaison teacher Tim
Noble worked with Salt Way
School children during the sum-
mer term to stage an original play Salt Way performers, rear Halley
based on the travails of ancient Taylor, Simon Farrow, Rachel
Emma Bean from National Power, centre, presents a cheque to West
Swindon teachers collecting 700 copies of William Shakespeare's The Greek hero Odysseus. Plant. Front, Victoria Banick
Tempest. Back, from left to right, Tim Noble, Greendown festival
coordinator, Kaye Wilkie from Shaw Ridge School; Jessie Daniels, School teams' sporting success
Oliver Tomkins Junior School; Karen Winterburn, Tregoze School;
Emma Howarth, Freshbrook School; Kate Andrews, Tregoze School; maintained
Rosemary Stevens and Jan Sayers, Wroughton Junior School; Zina
Joannou, Freshbrook School. Front, Alison Pass, Westlea School; Our girls' teams continue to achieve success: the year 8 athletics
Caroline Haywood, Freshbrook School.
team were overall champions in the Swindon Athletics championships
with a particularly creditable performance from Jade O'Brien who
Olympic hopefuls managed to improve her time over 100 metres by over a second.

Greendown students Rebecca Swindon Youth Bowling Club,
Arthur, Michael Newman and have represented Wiltshire at ten-
John Newman have their sights pin bowling, competing at levels
set on bowling for England in the up to U18s. Five years of regular
Sydney Olympic Games. training and long hours of prac-
All three, who bowl for the tise have paid dividends, with an
array of trophies from local and
national tournaments.
Tenpin bowling is increasingly
making its mark as a serious sport.
It was included for the first time
in this year's Commonwealth
Games. Next stop Sydney in the
year 2000?
Rebecca Arthur, Michael Catch us if you can!' PE teacher
Newman and John Newman and England Cross Country run-
Greendown is West Swindon's ner, Caroline Thomas with her
fleet-footed team
Community School catering for
local families and a wide range
of community groups. Top rugby player wins
We always make visitors very Rob Andrew shirt
welcome and are happy to give Individual efforts are also nota-
parents tours of the school. ble - particularly the Most im-
For more information please proved Rugby Player of the Year
contact, - Matthew Monahan.
Primary parents: Tim Noble Matthew, who was also player
Other parents: Steve O'Sullivan of the year for Supermarine, re-
ceived the Greendown Rob
Community use and bookings:
Andrew Shirt, awarded to the
Amanda Yeoman (mornings only)
student who made the most all
Tel: (0 1793) 874224 round improvement in the year.
'This is Greendown' is published by Greendown Community School under contract with The Link Magazine