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Companies give after school club
PIANO LESSONS
Christmas present
For beginners
Rumours of closure not true
to After Westlea mum Lorna Annals persuaded her employers Haart
intermediates Ofsted & NCMA Estate Agents to donate £200 to Westlea After School and Holiday
Registered Childminder
Qualified piano teacher Club, colleagues in her office rose to the challenge and started
in North Swindon, centrally Full Time - Part Time - ringing around associated busineses.
located within walking distance School Holidays By the end of a quiet afternoon in “The two staff have had their
of St Andrews Ridge, Ash Brake, Contact Dee to arrange December, their viral fundraising hours reduced and the club is in a
Abbey Meads & Redhouse a visit or interview had secured another £500 from much better position financially.”
Betterlife Mortgages, Hale & The club is entirely reliant on
Pupils of all abilities welcomed on 01793 702548 Hopkins Solicitors, Lock Mortgages parent fees and fundraising. Grant
from aged 5 to senior citizen or 07956424886 and surveyor John Branston. aid from Swindon Council was cut
Or mail
Call: Julie Johnson-Little CT ABRSM The cash boost came at a good in 2000, but rent paid to the council
Tel: 01793 701255 [email protected] time as the volunteer management for room hire totals £730 per month.
www.care-for-kids.co.uk committee has restructured the A pre-school breakfast session
Email: [email protected]
club to cope with a fall in demand. runs from 7.45am to 8.40am and
But rumours that the club which after school care is provided from
meets in the Sunshine Room at 3.20pm to 6pm.
Westlea School could close are not The holiday club runs from
true says manager Cherry Hobbs. 7.45am to 6pm and children from
“The after school club continues to any school, including secondary,
thrive, but we’ve seen a drop in can attend.
demand for holiday care which For details call Chery Hobbs on
put a strain on finances. 07773 027583.
Lorna Annals, right, with Cherry Hobbs, left, assistant Pat Langford, centre, and
children at the holiday club in early January, with Lauren Ponting and Becky Annal
playing teachers

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www.musicbugs.co.uk

Headstarts Day Nursery

Established 1990
Delta Business Park, Westlea
West Swindon. Tel: 877779
& Pre-school places on offer
The Children’s Centre at Robert le Kyng St John’s Pre-School, Westfield Way, Haydon Wick (next to Morrison’s)
Westcott Street, Swindon. Tel: 484934 has places available for children aged from two and half years to school
age. For details call Stephanie Slade on 07879623507
Headstarts is a friendly, ‘family’ nursery offering
a warm, happy and relaxed environment where
every child benefits from individual attention. School’s campaigner offers
music tuition
❑ Monday – Friday 8am till 6pm all year
A North Swindon mum who came to fame six years ago when she
❑ Sessions for 0 - 5 year olds ~ am, pm, school day, all day secured places for hundreds of children at Farmor’s School, Fairford
❑ Real value for money. From £144 per week full time has now turned her hand to teaching piano.
❑ Funded child-care credits available.** Julie Little, 51, from St Andrew’s ways harboured the desire to learn
Ridge, has been teaching piano to play the piano and now have the
❑ Government Funded Nursery Sessions** part-time around her civil service time and the money for lessons.
job. Fresh from completing the CT “Some adults hold back because
Free nursery sessions for 2.5 hours per day
ABRSM (Certificate of Teaching they feel they are too old to learn,
worth £40 per week for the Associated Board of the but this is never the case. It’s a
Monday - Friday during term time Royal Schools of Music) course last question of having the confidence.
for funded 3 & 4 year olds* May, her pupils range from five Once you get over that hurdle and
years old to pensioners. are willing to practice, you’ll start
For further information or to arrange a visit, Julie said that most of her pupils to make progress.”
✁ each lesson should be well paced, tional piano and also on touch-
call Alison on 877779 or 484934 live in North Swindon. “I believe Julie is happy to teach on a tradi-
SPECIAL OFFER varied and inspiring enough to sensitive electronic 5-octave key-
give confidence to move forward. boards either at her home or at the
FREE child care worth £50 with this advert* “Although many of my pupils pupil’s.
are children, I have a growing For details call her on 701255 or
*Conditions apply **Rates may vary
number of adults who have al- 07900 290457.

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