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14 The Link Magazine • May 2006
Connecting to the immediate past
Three West Swindon schools are searching for news of graduates, to celebrate their achievements
and provide inspiration for the present generation of children
Shaw Ridge Primary Freshbrook Primary School
Deputy headteacher Jan Archer the importance of holding up posi- should be recognised by children The school celebrates its twenty-
recently returned from a course on tive role models to children, deter- today as someone who is making a fifth anniversary on 1 June and is
mined to locate peo- contribution to society. Whatever planning a grand summer fete on
ple who atttended your chosen career path - and also if 15 July, perhaps the last.
the school which you've stopped work to have a fam- Swindon Council is proposing
celebrated its twen- ily - we'd like to hear from you." that Freshbrook closes along with
tieth anniversary in Mrs Archer is keen to receive Windmill Hill Primary, and to open
2005. photographs of former pupils at a new school on the Freshbrook
"Schools some- work, or at home with children, site in 2007.
times have past pu- with a note saying what you're
pils who become doing now, the year you attended
celebrities and Shaw Ridge, and, if you have one,
they are rightly a photo of when you were there.
very proud to be Send them to Shaw Ridge Pri-
associated with mary, Ridge Green, Shaw, Swin-
them," she said. don or call Ms Archer on 871601
"But it's impor- with news of yourself or former
Janet Archer with Shaw Ridge pupils looking through tant that everybody classmates.
photo albums, from left, Curzio Potenza, Alexandra who has gone into Billie contacts wanted
Richardson, Hannah Bruce, Jonathan White the world of work
Sean Smith is writ- =^
ing a biography
Greendown Community School, Grange Park about former _,.
The first Year 7 children started at Greendown in September 1986, the Brook Field Pri- Teaching assistant Anne-Alain,
Salmon, who has worked at Freshbrook
last brand new school to be built in Swindon. mary and Bradon Primary since the first day
A programme of activities to mark the twentieth year isbeing worked Forest pupil, Billie
out, but in advance, headteacher Steve O'Sullivan would like to hear Piper. The first pupils will now be in
from past pupils. The most recent famous graduate is Commonwealth If you have Billie - net/ al/e, their early thirties. But if you at-
boxing gold medal winner Jamie Cox, but 'Mr O' would like to display memories to share to intergalactic tended Freshbrook at some point
photographs and information about anybody who attended the school. contact him on tune traveller in the last quarter of a century, or
Drop him a note at the school or mail: headspa@greendown 07790 549778 or taught there, send your details to
.swindon.sch.uk mail: seansmith [email protected] the school office, or call 872800.

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