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Balloons soar on a special day for Brimble Hill and Uplands
To mark the arrival of two brand new special schools in Priory Vale, hundreds of balloons were released; one for each child at the North
Swindon Learning Campus.
After an extended half term have come up to us, they have had and they did very well. One of our the Brimble Hill team who used to
break, pupils at Brimble Hill Pri- two terms to get used to the idea pupils told me that the building is teach them.
mary and Uplands Secondary spe- and have got to know the school. very pretty " Head ofBrimble HillBob Walker
cial schools had their first glimpse With this move, because of tight Children from Red Oaks Pri- said that although not many of the
of the new buildings when they timescales and completion of mary next door joined in the bal- childrenwereabletoputtheirfeel-
arrived on 8 November. building works there's been no op- loon launch on the Brimble Hill ings into words, they seemed im-
Brimble Hill has left Park South, portunity to even step through the site to say hello to their new neigh- pressed with the new building and
where it was based for 21 years, door. bours. Some Uplands pupils took were settling in well. "It's good to
and Uplands has transferred from "Today was going to be a huge part and there were screams of see the Red Oaks children here as
Penhill. event for both schools and it went delight as they saw members of we hope tobe working very closely
Head of Uplands Mary Bishop tremendously well, with them."
said that it had not been possible "Our pupils spent their first day • The special
to take the pupils inside the new findingtheirwayroundtheschool. 1 schools have
building ahead of theopening. "In Thel6+studentsweregivenamap j been built as part
the past when Brimble Hill pupils and asked to find their class room Er I of the North Swin
don Private Fi-
nance Initiative
project. The 145
pupils aged 2 to
19 years with se-
vere, profound
and/or multiple
learning difficul-
ti es will enjoy
state of the art fa-
cilities including
sensory rooms, a
hydro-therapy
pool and leading
edge ICT equip-
ment.
Left, Jake Harper and
Kelvin Clarke in the
Brimble Hill multi-
s:'nsory room

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