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The Link Magazine • September 1998
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Shakespeare in schools
This is the one to keep
gets powerful boost
Welcome to The Link magazine's annual guide to community
facilities and services.
West Swindon primary schools are well advanced in their plans to
West & North is designed for quick and easy access to very implement the Government's requirement to introduce a literacy
local information - which you often need in a hurry. We hope hour, thanks to Swindon based company National Power.
you will keep this edition handy for the next twelve months. The July Link magazine featured don project could be a template for
an appeal to business by Green- the national literacy hour."
down School teacher Tim Noble to During the Autumn, Mr Noble
Thamesdown support a Shakespeare Festival will be directing Westlea School in
which will involve all 500 year 6 their own production of The Tem-
Upholstery & Flooring pupils in the area studying the pest. Tregoze primary and Green-
bard's work, a national literacy down School will also be working
Specialists in all types of domestic hour requirement. on performances.
upholstery, carpets & vinyls Two hundred year 7 Greendown
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students will also take part.
Soon: a map for
Free estimates. 25 years experience
National Power has came up
Tel: 728243 • Mobile: 0973 697998
with the total sponsorship which
will provide each year 6 child with North Swindon
LOTMEAD PICK YOUR OWN • a copy of the Penguin classic
edition of Shakespeare's play
The Tempest
STRAWBERRIES • a ticket to see the play at Green-
down jointly performed by the
RASPBERRIES Salisbury Playhouse and the
Sixth Sense Theatre Company
RUNNER BEANS • an hour's workshop on the play
led by an actor/ theatre worker
POTATOES • a day in school with 'Elizabethan
Peddlar' Jack Greene.
SWEET CORN The sponsorship will also cover
training on The Tempest for twenty
primary school teachers, includ-
PVO hotline Just outside Swindon ing a day with Shakespeare expert
on the Covingham to
Tel: 790137 Wanborough Road Dr Rex Gibson.
Festival organiser Tim Noble
said he was overwhelmed by Na- The Link magazine will soon publish
tional Power's support. "Their
the first detailed map of the North
generosity has made a unique and
Swindon development.
pioneering project possible. Enlargements will be appearing in
"The involvement of Dr Gibson road side display cases to help lost
SUMMER is tremendous. He is an interna- drivers. Smaller versions will be
tionally recognised figure and is
currently preparing primary printed and delivered with The Link
SPECIAL school guides for teaching Shake-
during the autumn.
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