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14 The Link Magazine • February 2004
The National Childbirth Trust Nearly New Sale Brook Field children
Saturday 27th March, 11 am to 1 pm put big effort into fundraising
Oasis Leisure Centre. Entry £1
Year 2 children at Brook Field School in Shaw showed a lot of
A fantastic quality selection of children's clothes (0-4years). cots, initiative last term as part of their Personal and Social Health Educa-
prams. nursery equipment, maternity wear, toys, videos and books. tion work when they decided they needed to improve equipment in
People interested in selling items should send a cheque for £2.50 made their playground.
payable to NCT Swindon Branch, and a large (A5 or A4) stamped self- After much head scratching about how to raise money, they ap-
addressed envelope to: NCT Seller's Packs. 63 Avenue Road. Old proached the Friends of Brook Field to ask if they could organise a stall
Town, Swindon SN 1 4DA. Packs are limited and sent out on a first come, at their Christmas Fayre. After their request was accepted they set about
first served basis. planning and advertising their stall, and asking for donations for a jam
jar tombola which is a firm favourite with the children.
30% commission is deducted from all sales which goes towards
The youngsters took it in turns to run the stall which raised £205.66.
providing local NCT services.
Now they will be pouring over catalogues to agree which equipment
Volunteers are needed to successfully run the event. To assist call the should be purchased in time for the good weather in the Spring and
NCT Helper's Coordinator on 728629 before 8pm by 12 March. Summer.
Amanda Butler, Chair of Friends of Brook Field, centre, with Year 2 teachers
Miss Brown and Miss Stopher and their children

day nursery
A brand new purpose-built nursery
on the edge of Wootton Bassett
Near M4 junction 16, just a short drive from West Swindon
Free 2.5 hour grant places
available throughout the day
Open all year from 8am to 6pm
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Full time and part time places •cJ y
For information telephone:
01793 851495
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Brinkworth Road. Wootton Bassett, Swindon SN4 8DS

Eleven year old Brook Field pupil Megan Staples has the makings
of a good organiser. When she decided she wanted to raise money
for charity, she set about involving as many people as possible to
help. She describes how she and her classmates raised over £800
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ring zince 1901 5' There are some children in our I wrote the letters to the parents
school who suffer with leukaemia. and prepared the sponsor forms.
Princess Christian Day Nursery I thought it wou ld be a good idea if My dad contacted Clic who sent
I organised a school event to raise badges and balloons for the chil-
Peatmoor Village Centre
money for the charity called Clic dren who took part.
Shearwood Road, Peatmoor, Swindon (Challenging Cancer and Leukae- We had good weather for the
mia in Childhood), run and all the children seemed to
• Quality care and education I discussed this with my enjoy it. We have now collected in
for 0 to 5 year olds headteacher, Mr Nicholas, and we all the sponsorship money and
100 place purpose built arranged a date for the Year 6 chil- have raised a fantastic amount of
dren to do a sponsored run on the £816. I'm very pleased with the
day nursery
school fields, money we have raised.
Open 7.30am to 6.00pm Megan with her classmates, teachers, friends and family who helped make the
,-_ i J • Ideal for parents working sponsored riot a great success
in the town centre 1t° LiTt
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• Registered by OFSTED
We now • Friendly and caring staff
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a visit, please call the manager on 01793 887602 tr