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The Link Magazine • October 2001 13
Third school could open in mobiles
The rapid increase in the number of primary age children in North Swindon and the failure of Swindon Council's bid to the Government
last December to support private capital funding to build new primary schools in the area means mobiles being put up for the first time at
Catherine Wayte prima ry, and possibly additional temporary buildings or building alterations at Abbey Meads School.
The third primary school, in the The foundations for mobiles at "We have always known that our planning easier if we know which
yet unbuilt Haydon 3 develop- Catherine Wayte School were in- numbers would grow in the early children will come to us, and if
ment, was due to open in Septem- stalled whilst it was being built. A years, and mobiles would have to siblings will attend in due course."
ber2002,buthasbeendelayeduntil year after opening the school is be used at some point. At Abbey Meads School, places
the following year. However, full, with 70 children joining re- "Having considered all the fac- have to be found for another fifty
rather than expand Catherine ception classes in September. tors, our proposal to house a third children in September 2002 and
Wayte School, the governors have Headteacher Gaye Ching said school in separate buildings on our governors are proposing to Swin-
told Swindon Council that they governors and staff had consid- site would be the least disruptive don Council that a mezzanine floor
would prefer a new school to open ered the long term implications of in the long term for the children in a roof space be built, to add to
as a separate organisation in mo- taking in even more children and who attend and those who will the mobiles already on site.
bile classrooms on their site, shar- then losing many of them a year come to Catherine Wayte in the The council's education and
ing facilities where appropriate, later when the new school opens. future. It also makes longer term community committee considered
^ the proposals at its meeting on 26
Artists show holiday talents Ir September
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trips were made
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workshops, the
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fire clay pots in a
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technology elemei
spent an afternoon
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visit to Coate %\
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Reading was all
holidays with a d
summer reading
Volunteers wer
read, in return foi
books received a
organised by the I
Wendy Hawkins
from Toothill,
receives a reading
carnival medal
from joint
coordinators
Jenni Carter and
Anna Jones,
with childminder
Gillian Campbell,
rear left, and
youngsters Kyran
Griffin, Joshua
Tilling, Emily
Smith