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Making friends across the continent

Children at Brook Field School are making friends in Europe using the Internet and also good old fashioned pencil and paper.
With funding from the European have met and children involved 'foreigners are just friends you do exchange e mails and hope to share
Comenius programme, links have have exchanged scrapbooks about not know yet. "This is a really a website later in the year."
been made with primary schools their schools, project work and exciting project which brings chil- The school is on the Internet @
in Denmark and Finland. photographs. dren closer. We have started to www.Brookfield.Swindon.sch.uk
So far headteachers and infor- Headteacher Roger Nicholas Brook Field School information technology coordinator Dale Burr with his
mation technology coordinators said the slogan of the project is year4 class holding up self portraits sent by children at the Danish link schools.
Rear from left, Airi Kishi, Paul Halliday, Emily Crowhurst, Charlotte Kilcar,
Rachael Green, James Hughes, F'nmm Wiltshire, Matthew Machin. Front, Carly
Musical to helD the oppressed Tremblin and Daniel Nield
Shaw based composer Margaret Carpenter has written another work
which she hopes will raise money for people to escape persecution.
Margaret was pictured on the crisis," said Margaret. "Asa Chris-
September 1999 Link front page tian the Bible exhalts us to help
with children from Brook Field others. I hope my music will be
school who sang on a recording of able to help people escape perse-
her CD Giant Slayer, a musical for cution, like they did thousands of
schools about the Biblical story of years ago."
David and Goliath. Her son Adam wrote the music
The new work is also based on and daughter Amy designed the
the Bible, inspired by Exodus, cover of the musical score. The
when Moses led his people out of finishing touches to the CD will be
slavery in Egypt. Proceeds will be made in early January and it goes
donated to the Exobus project, a on sale in early Spring.
charity which helps Jews emigrate Margaret is planning to launch
to Israel from Russia. the work with a performance of NO NEED TO LIVE WITH HARD WATER / _
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