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See us on the net @ www.swindonlink.com The Link ine • October 1999 5
Lottery boost for millennium Shakespeare spectacular
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It started with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at Westlea School in December 1997 and grew into a
Shakespeare Festival with 500 children from four schools putting on The Tempest. Next Spring, thanks Extensi ns
to a National Lottery Millennium Fund grant of £5,000, every West Swindon school and a few beyond will
be performing one of the Bard's plays with the help of professional actors and Shakespeare teachers. £30.
Festival 2000 is going to be a world first.
Infills,Wraps, i
Coordinated by Greendown grasp the difficult language and and Tim is making a renewed ap-
School primary liaison teacher Tim his concepts with amazing matu- peal to Swindon business to back a Airbrushing and
Noble, the project has already been rity, and it shows in their general project winning world wide atten-
nationally recognised and featured approach to school." tion. He can be can be contacted at TOP QUALI
in a BBC Radio 4 documentary The Shakespeare Festival still Greendown on (01793) 874224 or PRODUCTS USED
earlier this year. needs £25,000 to achieve its aims via [email protected] Manicures & Pedicures
"The lottery grant is a great Preparing for the festival. Tim Noble with Chris Geelan and West Swindon teachers
breakthrough," he said. "The local Veronika
teachers are overflowing with 01793 702909
ideas and enthusiasm, but we were
being held back by a lack of re- or 07887 510409
sources to fund the professional
support we need. We have now
secured Chris Geelan and Sarah
Gordon of the Young Shakespeare
Company to work with us; others
in education and theatre are show-
ing great interest.
"We have found that children
make amazing progress right
across their education when tack-
ling Shakespeare. They are able to

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The West Swindon Shakespeare Festival has fea- Noble has received e-mails from ten US schools.
tured on Swindon's web site for the last eight months "It is fantastically exciting," he said. "Now that all
and is linked with one of the sites run by a top the schools are on-line, I'm hoping that children will
Shakespeare teacher in the USA. be able to exchange e-mails with others in America
As a result of reading about the West Swindon about their Shakespeare studies. It's a new and
project and seeing photographs from The Link, Tim unexpected dimension to the festival."

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