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2 The Link Magazine • July 2004
School celebrates 25th summer with fete on 3 July
When Tracey Lowden (nee Lea) arrived as a six year old at Toothill School in September 1978, she was one of just 17 children to start at the
first of the nine primary schools which would be built in West Swindon over the next twenty years.
As the school prepares to cel- 9, is well rehearsed for a piano solo
ebrate its quarter of a century at a at an anniversary concert.
fete on Saturday 3 July, Tracey is In the background will be proud
ensuring her own daughter Jennifer, parents and grandparents Don and
Pat Lea, who took Tracey to school
in those early days of the town's
IMPORTANT expansion west, and now take and
collect Jennifer and her brothers
DECISIONS Matthew and Callum every day.
When the school opened, some
C 1,500 houses had been built since
the first people arrived in April
SOLICITORS
1976, and the area was still largely
a building site. Toothill Church
D opened in November 1978 and a
Carter Read & Dove shop operated out of a hut in April
1980.
Contact: Commerce House Tracey had already spent a year
34/35 Commercial Road Tracey, second from left, with headteacher Anne Newton, sitting, and the other
Swindon SN1 SNS at Park North Infant School where children and staff in September 1978
she and other children had been
* Property Matters bused. In the first two years Don, well known 25 years ago as development of the community,
Commercial & Residential Toothill only accepted infant chil- the milkman for Toothill, said, and continues to do so."
Conveyancing dren so she was bused back to the "Tracey was very happy at Toothill • New school meet first children
Parks to attend junior school. School and her children cannot
* Employment St Francis School at Taw Hill holds
For both the Employer Tracey, who lives in Haydon wait to get there every day to be inductions for North Swindon chil-
and Employee Wick, said that having her parents with their friends. dren. See page 12
to help with childcare was one rea- "It's a very important place in
* Wills & Probate
son to send her children to Toothill our community and I'm worried Toothill School Fete
Efficient administration of School. But she has fond memories that the council thinks it might
a loved one's estate of her time there. "It was the only have to close because of falling Saturday 3 July, 11am - 3pm
Stalls. tombola, dance display,
time I really enjoyed school; Mrs numbers."
Tel: (01793) 617617 splat the teacher, treasure hunt,
Jarvis was a really lovely teacher. I Present headteacher Richard
E-mail: [email protected] barbecue, football tournament
remember some of the others in Jackson, said, "Toothill School has
Website: www.crd.org.uk and penalty shoot out
my class and see them sometimes." played an important part in the

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