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A Happy Christmas to all our XPRESS
No. 211 • December 1999 • Circulation 20,000
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Getting ready for SwinDome Day
Guide to local
Tuesday 4 April is Sw ndon's day in the Millennium
Christmas
Dome when children and teenagers will present
drama, dance and song about the town and Steam,
the opening of the new railway heritage centre. church services on page 38
See page 5.
INSIDE`S Millennium Thoughts
Toothill patients get great, new from Africa
medical facilities. The Phoenix
surgery has opened in a perma- Missionary
nent building, four years after set- doctor
ting up in the area. Page 6.
Francesca
Big donation A company moving Elloway, who
to West Swindon has presented is linked with a
Peatmoor School with £1,500. West Swindon
Page 10. church, gives
Artforarts sake Children at Abbey a different view
Meads school recently spent Abbey Meads children Tanith Grant, on what Year
a week focused on the creative MatthewPontingandAmberRoland 2000 means.
side of the curriculum. Page 12. hold up their artwork See page 39.
Storysacks bid for
Euro success
A project to help early years language skills,
developed with the help of parents at Westlea
School is being considered for an international
award at the end of November.
Thought up by former Westlea headteacher
Neil Griffiths, Storysacks has been nominated
to receive a prestigious prize for cross cultural
innovation in education. The sacks received
Royal recognition when Princess Anne visited
Westlea to meet Storysack organisers from
around Britain. Story on page 2.
Left: Neil Griffiths describes Storysacks to
Princess Anne in May 1998