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36 The Link Magazine • August 2005
Ref. backs Toothill youngsters
Great reductions
n selected A Championship referee was so TV as the man who keeps games
inspired by the performance of flowing. He's also been seen as an
utdoor lights the children at Toothill Primary assistant referee in the Premier and
School that he went out and the Champions League.
Probably the widest bought them football and netball When he met Toothill School
selection of affordable kit with RAF branding. teacher Janet Lee and her husband
lighting in Wiltshire Phil Prosser is well known to at a footballers dinner, and heard
football fans who watch the Cham- about how well the school had
pionship and League 1 and 2 on done in the last year, he readily
agreed to take an
assembly on the
last day of term.
Open: Monday to Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm "I grew up on a
Bank Holidays 10am - 4pm tough estate out-
side Birmingham
but was lucky
that my parents
gave me the fo-
cus to aim high,
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The Mayor Ray Fisher with the Greendown GAB kids
Councillor Fisher said he and from the Wiltshire Police Crime-
his father used to be called 'lanky' beat fund to pay for publicity and
or'fish' when they were at school, a representative from Child Line
"It was a mild form of verbal abuse to run workshops on bullying.
you might say, but name calling Rabiah Saleh, in Year 8, said
demeans the individual and does "pupils can be stereotyped at
not recognise that person's worth - school and made to feel shut out of
whether at school or work. groups. In September we will be
"In those days parents and teach- putting up posters to advertise
ers used to tell you to live with it, GAB and will offer peer counsel-
and it did me no lasting damage, ling to anybody who feels upset or
but name calling and physical left out. We're also going to run a
abuse is part of a cycle of denigra- support group so that other pupils
tion which can leave long term can feel included in school activi-
effects for some people and tragic ties."
consequences for a few if bullying Fellow group member Sam
goes to its extremes. Kearns said, "it's really great to be
"I'm glad teachers are dealing the first winners of the youth
with bullying nowadays and work- award. It's a big group and we've
ing with children to understand worked hard together to under-
the effects." stand all the different kinds of bul-
The Greendown pupils who lying. Now we're going to try and
have set up GAB - Greendown help other students."
Against Bullying - have spent Other schools who made pres-
lunch breaks and after school ses- entationstotheMayorwereHead-
sions learning more about bully- lands whose pupils are creating a
ing and planning how they are quiet garden and Hreod Parkway
going to meet it head on. who were preparing to paint a large
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