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12 NORTH SWINDON (including Abbey Meads, St Andrew's Ridge, Ash Brake, Taw Hill)
Successful week of art

h Y L11Lf) Abbey Meads Primary School spent a fun week in November after
^^ with a G hatL AST half term exploring the environment through art, drama and music.
^.! A LIFETIME! Children went on a trip to lum and the students from
Westonbirt Arboretum to see the Cirencester really set the children's
colours in the trees and gather imagination alight. The improve-
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wnrt music , i d• ; _ :..._ leaves, nuts and sticks. They pro- ment in vocabulary and the moti-
allO20090rliDs duced collages and pictures which vation from the week has been
are now displayed around the huge."
school. As part of the week's activities,
On Friday 8 November twenty children also worked on the de-
to suit ever y taste in one National BTEC Diploma per- signs for playground markings and
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There is a keyboard 3 Keyboard
rice. From the KN
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must to incredible all NOV KN 60 0' forming arts students from have created a shopping list of
the Cirencester College led four work- equipment.
ana, then
' fora ^, ^^3 shops on a carnival theme. At the Now that the builders have
It Y Wr Pr iterence is n on from end of the day children put on a moved off site, Mrs Brown com-
you lust cannot — range of short performance for parents. mented, "coming back to school
the accts
Technics PX and PR rnodefs• Headteacher Marilyn Brown after half term was a bit like start-
said the week as wonderful. "Chil- ing the year again. Without the
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dren were able to concentrate on builders in the way, we can really
the creative aspect of the curricu- concentrate on education."
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