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The Link Magazine • April 2005 13
Heads on the move Peter Giles
The two Freshbrook schools under threat in Swindon Council's primary school reorganisation proposals Consultants Ltd
will have new headteachers in September.
Windmill Hill School's long Steven Luke departs this summer In December Her Majesty's In- MAKE
serving leader David Messenger, to become head of Oaktree Pri- spectors praised the school's man- YOUR BUSINESS
head since the school opened in mary. He started in early 2003 and agement when it came out of spe-
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Children at Windmill Hill School in Freshbrook raised nearly £2,000
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Some of the Windmill youngsters
who took part in the leukaemia marathon challenge

Painting sports at big school
Youngsters from West Swindon primary schools visited Greendown
in March to help create large paintings on a sports theme with artists
Toni Robinson and Gordon Dickinson.
Children from different year groups took part in workshops to try out
different techniques before working on two paintings, one to hang in
their own school, the other to be mounted as an activity montage in the
Greendown sports hall. Each picture had a surreal feel to them, placing
sports activities in odd settings.
Liam McConnell in front of his design of an ice hockey player in a desert with
fellow Tregoze School pupils, Toni and Gordon and Greendown helpers