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10 SHAW & ROUGHMOOR
Auction of Promises Youngsters get to grips with
I.. Fashion Show IIII Brook Field School, Shaw chopsticks for Chinese New Year
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Friday 5 March
In aid of GWR FM Compere: Gary Vincent of GWR fm Reception children at Brook Field
Community Trust & Promises to be auctioned include School spent a day exploring tra-
Swindon Women's Refuge two tickets to a Tottenham game, ditional aspects of Chinese New
with lunch and meet the players, a
The Marriott Hotel web site designed for you, tour of Year on 10 February.
They made their own dragon
GWR fm studios plus flights in the
Pipers Way, Swindon and took turns in a procession,
traffic report aircraft Thunderbird 1, complete with crashing symbols
Sunday 21 March days out for the family at and drums, made lanterns and
Chessington and the Fairford Air
7pm for 7.30pm Tattoo, gardening, ironing and turned a classroom into a restau-
much more. rant to taste traditional foods, us-
Tickets £5, from all Partners Salons ing chopsticks.
and participating companies Tickets available from Brook Field
School or contact Linford Madley Teacher Eileen Brown said all 96
Featuring: Partners & Duncans Hair on 881180. children, their teachers and ESA
Studios, The Designers, Suits You, Organised by The Friends of were involved in the workshop.
Vecopi, Boyd School of Irish Dancing
Brook Field School YoungMi Smith from Swindon Coun-
cil's multi-cultural education team
shows Naomi Hill and Ethan
Chinquagrani how to use chopsticks
GA CH
Reg No.142573 Ten years for happy school
A large cake made by Salt Way mum Lynn Worth took centre stage on
1 1 11 February at the end of a week of celebration to mark the school's
tenth anniversary.
• Central heating installation and efficiency upgrades
She also made
• Repairs to all appliances and central heating systems
nearly 500 fairy
• Servicing to central heating boilers cakes, one for
• Gas appliance fitting • Gas appliance sales every child and
member of staff,
• Warm air heating • Combination boilers
each iced with a
number ten.
These were con-
sumed after a
fancy dress pa-
rade judged by
the Mayor of
Swindon, coun.
Brian Ford.
The Mayor
congratulated founding head- and kitchen was added in 1997 so
teacher Mrs Sue Butcher and her that the school could cater for fami-
staff for establishing a successful lies moving into the area.
school. Salt Way combined its tenth
Mrs Butcher said that ten years birthday with a week of activity
had gone in a blur, but it had been around national year of reading
wonderful. "I remember that we with visits from poets, authors,
accepted our first children in the journalists and Swindon Town
year the National Curriculum was players who talked about their fa-
introduced. vourite books and read stories.
"The building was delayed and • Back in 1988 The Link suggested
supplied direct to the public. We make your furniture the way we set up in spare classrooms at the name Salt Way to Mrs Butcher
you want it, with thousands of fabrics to choose from. Brook Field School. Then the staff because of the ancient trading route
had to spend the Christmas holi- to the south coast from the salt
* Craftsman built days moving everything and un- springs at Droitwich in the Mid-
Don't settle for packing new furniture and equip- lands, which passes next to the
* All suites fully guaranteed mass produced ment ready for early January 1989." school site along what became Hay
A six class extension with a hall Lane.
* All suites covered in when you can
your own choice of fabric have made-to- From The Link
* Solid wood frames measure for the January 1989
same price! Mrs Butcher, rear
* Made to measure left, with the first
Come and children and teach-
* Re-upholstery ers, including Mrs
.ee our wide Andrea Hughes,
service
selection of rear second from
* Curtains suites today right, now deputy
head at Liden, who
returned for the
tenth year party