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14 The Link Magazine • July 2001

Indian Head Massage Dads and daughters Celebrating 20 years school service
Reflexology The Link pho- There was a big surprise for Anne-Marie Salmon at a Freshbrook
tographer
Excellent therapeutic School assembly just before half term when she was presented with
came across "A
treatments for stress relief a bouquet and an engraved pen to mark her twenty years of service as
Paul Amies
Margaret Goodman MICHT IIHHT a classroom helper.
from Grange
Home or office visit appointments Park and his Although Anne-Marie had con- manageable 347 children on roll,
Tel: 01793 520287 tacted The Link a few weeks before but Anne-Marie remembers the
daughter
Mob: 07780 511063 Jade taking a to remind us that the school opened days when it was the only school
quiet mo- on 1 June 1981, she was not aware serving Freshbrook and Grange
Arthur Cohen ment in the that anything was being planned Park, and became one of the big-
R.H.A.D. M.S.H.A.A. sunshine to to recognise her contribution. "It gest in the country with over 900
was very unexpected and surpris-
COUNTY look at a book ing to be called out in the assem- children. "There were mobile class-
rooms all round the playgrounds,
before the
HEARING AID start of playgroup in Freshbrook bly, it was a lovely surprise." it was very crowded and there had
SERVICES Community Centre.
The world's finest hearing aids Being 40 is the same
at the most competitive prices.
as turning 21
Home visits without charge
or obligation. Sushma Patel, who runs Fresh-
brook Pharmacy, suspected some-
Special terms for over 60's. thing when she spotted a sign
Thirty day full money back guarantee. wishing her a happy birthday
Tel: 01793 870047 hanging from the bridge over
Tewkesbury Way.
6 Romney Way, The Laurels, Little did she know the phar-
Shaw, Swindon, SN5 5QB macy would be festooned with re-
minders and The Link had been
asked to record the day.
"It's great being forty, just like
being twenty-one," said Sushma She only had a moment for a tear to be three separate assemblies."
convincingly. "It's how you feel." before answering questions about Anne-Marie started as a dinner
No doubt her good humour ra- the early days. lady, but for the last seventeen and
diates to all her customers who. Anne-Marie explained that she a half years has been an Educa-
call in for pills and potions to make moved to Swindon from Scotland tional Support Assistant, a role she
them feel better. in January 1981 and still lives in says has changed a lot.
the same house in Toothill. "Nowadays we work much
Freshbrook was still very much a more closely with the class teacher
building site and the village centre and are more involved with cur-
had yet to be completed when the riculum activities. Whether big or
school was being built. It should smaller, the school still has the
have opened in April of that year same caring and hard working at-
but delays meant that the first sixty mosphere. The children are much
children, under the headship of the same, just fantastic, and the
Marjorie Barker, started classes at staff are wonderful to work with,
Oliver Tomkins School. it's the reason I've stayed for such
Freshbrook School now has a a long time. I'm going to keep go-
ing for as long as I can."
BACK PAIN Fresh brook School Fete
7 July, 12 noon - 3pm Car pool proposed
IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM: Wanted: someone to share cars
Attractions include stalls BBQ,
O Backache, Leg pain bouncy castle, hook-a-duck, plants in normal office hours from West
O Neck, stalls, refreshments, ice creams, Swindon to Theale. Would also
Shoulder, and a grand draw. consider car pool to Hungerford
Arm Pain To book a car boot pitch at £5, or Newbury (for train connection)
O Headach call the school on 872800 Contact: [email protected]
& Migrain CcheCks
O Sciatica CHIROPODIST Wootton Bassett
O Sports Injur
O Whiplash woA^o Physiotherapy
Advanced Reflexologist
YOU SHOULD CONSIDER & Sports Injury
CONSULTING A CHIROPRACTOR & Kinesiologist YOUR NEAREST CLASS Clinic
Monday: 6.00pm & 7.30pm
SANDRA E. DAVIES D.C. CLINIC AT 113 HIGH STREET St John's Church, Haydon Wick. Mrs Lesley Catling
Shaw Chiropractic Clinic WOOTTON BASSETT Nicole, 338786 MCSP
Shaw Village Centre Tuesday: 9.30am
For an appointment with
Toothill Community Centre, Chartered
Tel: (01793) 887801 , r'= Mrs Lesley Taylor Dunwich Drive. Jenny, 613423
Fax: (01793) 882298 MBChA, MSSCh, MIIR, ASK Physiotherapist
Thursday: 6.30pm
Member of the British Chiropractic Freshbrook Community Centre, Tel: 01 793 848424
Association Worsley Rd. Jenny, 613423
Call Freephone 0808 108 8545 Mobile: 07778 553703
Member of the College of Chiropractors
General Chiropractic Council Reg. No. 00584 (01793) 849914 anytime Only £3.25 weekly. £6.95 membership 60 High Street , Wootton