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16 The Link Magazine • February 2006
Stitching & bitching in the board room
iii Music After the article in October's Link, Swindon knitting club Stitch'n
. ^usicians Bitch has increased in numbers and found a new venue.
Bugs The group now meets +t•
Fun Song sessions 9 each Monday evening at
for parentsicarers with fun music sessions for children the Express Holiday Inn {
pre-school children & babies on Bridge Street.
aged 6 months - preschool
Organiser Caz Caple I.'
North Swindon library, Toothill, Singing, bubbles, puppets, scarves, porn
Lawn. Coleview, Highworth, pours, hobby horses, teddies, parachutes, from Shaw said the re-
Purton, Broad Town, and lots of fun and noise! sponse was so good that
Wanborough, Taw Hill, Classes every day of the week in the group had to find big-
Watchfield & Wootton Bassett Abbey Meads, Romleaze, Peatrnoor, ger premises. "The Holi- ti
Space Adventure & Wootton Bassett day Inn has been great.
Call now to join in with our We have a big board room
musical approach to learning. free trial sessions/no joining fee table and unlimited tea
Call Coth on 01793 727286 or Call Claire on (01793) 722072 and coffee all for £2.50."
email: [email protected] The knitters bring along
www.musicbugs.co.uk
their latest projects and
enjoy a good chat while No bitching between Caz and her stitching pals
they knit. With plenty of
stitching but no bitching, the la- good selection available in Swin-
Li ARn_'HO bUi^tUt dies have become firm friends and don," said Caz. "So many people
day nursery hope to arrange trips to knitting are interested again. I have had
A purpose-built nursery and craft fairs this year. children as young as eight asking
Knitting has enjoyed a revival to learn. Perhaps they should start
on the edge of Wootton Bassett
recently with several celebrities teaching knitting in schools again."
Near M4 junction 16, just a short drive from West Swindon picking up their needles. Caz set To join the stitchers and leave
up the group to show that knitting the bitching at home call Caz on
â For children 3 months to five years
is not just for grannies. The yarn 877120 or mail: caz@swindon
â Open all year from 7.30am to 6pm is so trendy and now there is a knits.co.uk
â Extensive outdoor play and garden ^ rJ►
Massage for babies
â Grant places available
Geraldine O'Driscoll was featured in the January Link, teaching
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For information telephone: 0 793 851495
mums how to build bonds with their babies through massage -but we
www.thedaynursery.com published the wrong web site address.
Brinkworth Road, Wootton Bassett. Swindon SN4 8DS Lots of parents report that massage calms their babies, helps with
digestive problems and also improves sleep patterns.
For details of the next six week course which starts on 10 March at the
Emmanuel Church Hall, Haydon Wick call Geraldine on 07821 686570.
www.holistictherapy-athome.co.uk
Meadowpark School Est. 1994
After school coaching gets results
A well established
thriving school with The Kip McGrath after school tuition centre in West Swindon cel-
faultless DfEE & OFSTED ebrates its first anniversary this month and demand for places has
reports across the been so high during the year that a second centre was opened in Gorse
0-7 years age range
Hill last September.
Excellent facilities in a Over 80 children aged 6 to 16 „ I
pleasant rural setting
Baby Nursery 0 - 2 years within easy access of McGrath centre at the Basepoint e
receive coaching at the Kip
Nursery School 2 - 4 years Swindon Centre off Rivermead Drive and • .1 t
Pre-Prep School 4 - 7 years Dedicated professional results have been impressive.
staff provide individual
Open 7.50am - 6pm care and individual David Parkinson, centre man-
Optional learning to ensure the ager, right, said, "we hear each
happiness & educational week from children who have been
Holiday
development of your moved up a group at school or
School child have been told they can sit a higher
Flexible, level GCSE paper." . '
MEADOWPARK
sensible Students are given individual
NURSERY AND
fees programmes and work with a _
PRE-PREP SCHOOL
Nursery qualified teacher in groups of four
Calcutt Street or less. During the 80 minute ses- David stressed that many of their
Grant pupils are already doing well in
available Cricklade, Swindon ,,ion, they cover six different ac- school but can achieve more if they
tivities, two of these computer
from 3 years Tel: 01 793 752600
based. Kip McGrath materials are have some individual attention
used but the tutors draw on their and a targeted plan. "The tuition is
experience to find the most appro- not just for children who are be-
priate way to teach a topic. hind. We want to show that there
The aim of the centre is to corn- is no stigma to having extra tui-
plement the work done in schools. tion: training is only a way to get
David and his wife, Andrea, still better. Professional sportsmen still
teach part-time in Swindon schools have trainers to help them."
and understand how little time is For details call David and
available to spend with each child Andrea on 608708.
in a class of 30. www.kipswindon.com