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12 FRESHBROOK & GRANGE PARK
SwindonDome day draws near
Crafty children in Mark Hazzard's year 6 class at Windmill Hill School have recreated Swindon's famous
railway village in miniature to be displayed in a suitcase at the Millennium Dome.
Thirteen primary schools across worked with Mr Haz-
the town have been involved in zard on how to fit the r
designing artworks on the theme railway village into the •.s,.
of journeys and each will be pro- suitcase. "We have all
viding a suitcase to be displayed the main roads and have g'
in the Macdonalds 'Our Town' area tried to show the houses
of the Dome on 4 April. like they are."
The art displays will be compli- Sam Ozdemir said, °
mented by dance and music per- "we had photographs to
formances which will all be on work from so that the
show in Swindon for the opening model looks like the real
of the new railway heritage centre place. It was quite hard "' ` s
STEAM in June. to make sure all the col- ...
Shanice Laing explained that a ours were right." t '`
small group of children had Corrine Sutton said . f' !^-
shewaspleasedthattheir t i
work would be shown ' t p
A D TA off in the Dome and at
1 ^!` STEAM.
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Holding their suitcase com-
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label, from left, Corrine
e ®e ® Sutton, Sam Ozdemir,
Shanice Laing, Thomas
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Each age group worked to
their own level of difficulty
Just a few of the spellers who took
part with their achievement cer-
tificates, including Bethany Reid
who spelled 49 out of her fifty
words correctly and raised £106.
From left, Alicja Nowak, Manjit
Bharj, Anthony Nutt, Daniel
Hughes, Afruza Miah, Bethany
Reid, Aiden Simmonds
Easter football

FA preliminary coach Paul Mutlow from Grange Park is once again
organising a Mini-Soccer Centre at Freshbrook School from Monday
17 to Thursday 20 April, 9am to 3pm, costing £30. There will also be
a Soccer Fun Day on 26 April at £8. For details, call Paul on 871464.
Paul undertook a sponsored run last October and raised £250 which
was matched by his employers Motorola in aid of new football and
netball kits for Freshbrook School.
Paul rear left, with the Freshbrook soccer squad,
headteacher Bob Pattendon and teacher coach Emma Howarth

For your retirement living we currently have
vacancies at Brain Court, Stratton St. Margaret
and Windmill Court, Freshbrook. Swindon.
Please contact our Regional Of fice:
Western Region, 10 The Parade
Marlborough, Wiltshire SNS I NE
Tel: 01672 515622

James Butcher
Housing Association