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The Link Magazine • March 2006 19
When education is a family affair
Team Shell, the successful robotics team featured in the February Little
Link, are all home educated children who are proof that school is not Bunneez Children's
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Some of the young models
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Gary the Musical Clown gave youngsters at St Francis Primary
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