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The Link Magazine • September 2002 7
Colours and rhythm of Africa central to Peatmoor
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Peatmoor Community Primary School headteacher Terri Peacock, right, and citizenship
co-ordinator Donna Bloomfield, strengthened ties with Dihlabeng School in South Africa
during a School Linking Visit funded by The British Council in June. Here she describes the
trip which led to an Africa Art Week in July and a drum making and an Afrcian art summer 110
school in August. .A
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The children of Peatmoor School, together with Swindon Family Church raised over
£1,000 through their Long Neck Appeal earlier in the year. This was used to purchase collection service
much needed educational resources for Dihlabeng, a township school, serving mainly from your surgery* by
deprived and disadvantaged children. The visit had a threefold purpose: leadership Cooper Chemist and
and management, creative arts and citizenship.
Ashington Way Pharmacy
Following an eye-opening tour songs, which culminated in a per- eyed enthusiasm (Tel: 616840);
of Soweto we travelled to the formance to their parents and into the Peat- `West Swindon Surgeries
mountainous region of Clarens. members of the local community. moor School
Faced with sub-zero temperatures We applied our creative eye and ethos. Please telephone for details
and no heating we shivered our well known abilities to shop
way through three days of excit- and managed to purchase a ,I } 1 1 •
ing teaching, sharing new ap- fantastic range of art and craft 11L'® ptht°ben
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proaches to literacy and art, and resources for use back at ,'g ^' ^^'UI
had great fun teaching English Peatmoor, resulting in huge ^•
country dancing to a school of born excess baggage. ; s '^^
dancers (see below!). The 10 day visit was 1
The Dihlabeng children shared rounded off with a short stay
numerous cultural dances and in a game park attempting to Film Processing
35mm & APS
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Peatnioor children in a tiny section • ,
by the chil-
of the Africa week exhibition
dren's pas-
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in South Africa Africa' week in July provided ar
and we returned excellent starting point and wa
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eager to inject plan a further visit for February
the same wide- 2003 to develop our links.