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This is Greendown • 3

Greendown aims for Michelin star as quality catering comes to school

As part of the `new look' modifications, the Len Hobbs
Greendown, great effort has been community suite and the old
made to improve the catering on gym have been combined to form
offer at the school. one spacious dining hall, fur-
Based on the theory that an nished in a contemporary style,
`army marches on its stomach' with a brand new kitchen.
the school has entered into a The changes have been given
long term partnership with Star the thumbs up by pupils in the first
Catering to provide nutritious few weeks of term, for both the
and tasty meals for the pupils bold decor and college style can-
and staff. teen arrangement, as well as the
As part of the internal building delicious food provided by Star.

Primary liaison: building strong links with our partners in education
Greendown is committed to working closely with teachers in our guided by two artists in residence Toni Robinson and Gordon
nine partner primary schools to develop close links in all areas of the Dickinson of `No Added Sugar', 500 Year 6 primary children created
curriculum and to make the transition from one phase of education large scale permanent pieces of art in the style of great artists.
to another as easy as possible for children. Each primary school group spent a day at Greendown working
y
An example of this work is a project in Februar this year when. with Year 10 pupils from Greendown. thus getting used to the
school's environment and being with older pupils.
Primary liaison teacher Angela Proctor with children and staff from
The art works were
Freshbrook School, and Gordon Dickinson and Toni Robinson
exhibited at the West r^'?
Swindon Library and t _
are now on display in
the primary schools.
Some of the large t
paintings also hang ,
in the new dinin
g
area, right, thus gi --
ing the Year 7 pupils
entering Greendown e
an immediate con-
nection with the
school.

Euro trip takes in moving images,

University awareness for Year 9 science, linguistics and lots of fun
Forty-five Year 9 pupils spent a day at the University of Bath In May 2003, thirty Greendown and firework show. The park also
in May seeing what life as a university student is like. pupils and teachers visited one offers some typical theme park
They started off with a of the most popular tourist at- amusements, and souvenir shops
science lecture from Dr Pe- tractions in France: Futuroscope, with a difference featuring laser
ter Ford. right, who demon- n , t n park of the moving image, situated technology and the science of light.
strated some of the proper- #' '^ •^ just outside the pretty historic town All instructions and informa-
ties of liquid nitrogen — a of Poitiers and housed in spec- tion was in French provid-
brilliant material that does tacular futuristic buildings. ing pupils with lots of opportu-
some very strange things to Pupils were amazed by the nities to practice and improve
even the most basic of ma- fantastic buildings housing a their language skills. Although
terials and items. Unfortu- whole variety of cinemas. There the less confident could listen to
nately school science labs are four different Imax screens, translations, using the ear-phones
are prevented from using it. cinema in the round, 3D screens, provided, most preferred to lis-
After lunch in one of the many and a poster making activity look- a planetarium, cinemas with ten to the commentaries in
cafes pupils were given a tour of ing at the aspects of university moving seats, a cinema with a French.
the campus by student ambassa- life. glass screen beneath the audi- On the Saturday afternoon of
dors. This included accommoda- Bath University liaison officer ence's feet and many others all the trip the group visited Poitiers
tion, a look at some of the social Mrs Newly ended the afternoon giving a totally different type of to see the romanesque cathe-
facilities like the clubs and bars, by congratulating the Greendown cinematic experience. dral. the fruit, flower and vegeta-
the shops, student radio station pupils as some of the best that The exquisite and frequently ble market and the pedestrian
and a glimpse of a few of the they had had on a visit. breath-taking photography capti- shopping centre, finding lots of
many fantastic sporting facilities All the pupils were impressed vated the pupils and teachers, giv- suitable presents to bring home.
available, with what university life had to ing them the opportunity to try out All agreed that Futuroscope is
The afternoon finished up with offer and many are now inspired each and then revisit their favour- great fun and very stimulating
a question and answer session to gain the qualifications required ite screens. In the evening the and everyone looks forward to a
with the student ambassadors to secure a place. group was able to see a laser, light return visit next year.