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ANIMAL No holiday break for Blue Peter visitors
New Children from Peatmoor Primary School turned up in uniforms
COMMUNICATOR during their February half term break to meet Andy Akinwolere from
Puppy?
INGRID RYLANCE BBC TVs Blue Peter who is learning to drive.
The unusual roundabout at the school’s entrance decorated with
Early socialisation and Help resolve giant pencils was a great place for Andy to practice and show off his
training is so important behavioural, skills to admiring youngsters. His efforts were broadcast on 13 March.
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VET2PET

SERVICE

Brook Field helps achieve big toe-tal
Do you have transport difficulties or find it
hard getting your pet to the vets? Three Blue Peter fans at Brookfield Primary School teamed up at the
end of the year to collect shoes for the Blue Peter Shoebiz Appeal to
Take advantage of our FREE VET2PET service raise money for work with children affected vy HIV/AIDS in Malawi.
and have our vet come to you! Once an ap-
peal letter went
VET2PET VISITS ARE AVAILALBLE FREE out to parents
IN SN4, SN25 & SN26 POSTAL AREAS
shoes started to
Tel: 01793 771869 flood in.
77 High Street, Purton, Swindon Ben Wright,
Email: [email protected] www.purtonvets.co.uk Stephen Foulds
Terms and conditions apply. Contact us for further details. and Nikita
Robinson
toured class-
rooms daily be-
fore the start of
school right up
to the end of the
Christmas term
collecting the
shoes. But it
was the mums Brook Field headteacher Roger Nicolas with Ben Wright, Stephen
who had to sort Foulds and Nikita Robinson and their appeal certificates
them into pairs,
decide which were too smelly and in conjunction with Unicef. Over a
bag them up for collection. million pairs have been collected
Stephen said, “we thought we’d in toe-tal and the appeal continues
get about 200 pairs but everybody until October. So there’s still time
kept on coming in with more. We to organise a school collection.
sent off 450 in the end.” The details can be found at:
The Blue Peter appeal was made www.shoebizappeal.org.uk
www.paw-pals.co.uk

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