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50 The Link Magazine • March 2006
Bringing in the Road scheme to deal with dangers
Year of the Dog Heavy duty red and white traffic slowing barriers are to be put in
position on either side of Toothill's Oliver Tomkins Infant and
Swindon's Chinese Women's So- Junior Schools by the end of February.
ciety celebrated Chinese New
Year at the beginning of February The two chicanes,
with a party in Freshbrook Com- one on Beaumaris
munity Centre. Road before drivers
Members brought a feast of reach the schools
homemade Chinese delicacies and and the other round
a bouncy castle entertained chil- the bend on Rowton
dren. Heath Way, will be
The society holds monthly cof- temporary traffic
fee mornings and regular meet- calming installa-
ings which cover women's health, tions so that the ef-
fitness and cooking at the Walcot fect on volumes and
Family Centre. For details call Mei speed can be as-
Kuen on 07900 965811. sessed by Swindon
Left, Haydon Lee playing the dragon Council engineers, and also to gain Signage will be erected to warn
with Leo and Shirley Ng residents' feedback. drivers of the new road layout.
Oxfam wants to know Birthday at lunch club
what young people think Freshbrook's weekly lunch club celebrated its fourth year with a cake
and knees up in early February.
Anna Hirsch-Holland from Shaw is a member of the Oxfam Youth Board The club provides lunch for 35 members and helpers at the commu-
which is made up of volunteer 16 to 24 year olds and acts as a sounding nity centre and has a few places for over 60s and anybody with a
board for issues which are important to young people today. She's
disability in West Swindon. They also need more volunteers to cover
looking for help and writes:
holidays and illness.
As a member of this board, I have been appointed to undertake some For details call Lorraine Webb on 871017 on weekday mornings.
research in schools to assess the attitudes of 11-16 years olds on global Cook Caroline Silcox, centre, and organiser Lorraine Webb, centre left in blue, with
issues and global citizenship. club members and volunteers before the cake cut
The information collected will be very useful for Oxfam to help
inform their development education strategy for schools in the UK.
This provides a framework which schools andeachers can choose to
follow in order to equip young people with the knowledge, skills, and
attitudes needed to allow them to challenge inequality, discrimination,
and stereotypes of people, as well as encouraging them to take action
for a fairer and more equitable world.
I have a short questionnaire which I'd like secondary school pupils to
fill out, investigating their attitudes and beliefs to global issues sur-
rounding the education of global citizenship in schools. I would en-
courage as many pupils as possible to fill in this questionnaire, in order
to help Oxfam with its valuable work.
The questionnaire for postal return is available by mailing:
[email protected] or it can be found online at: http: /
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