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16 swindonlink.com • November 2008
Save New school on the ridge on course
money for September 09 opening
with The delays caused by the search for endangered great crested newts
The Link last winter and spring is now receding into memory and builders
are rushing to ensure a new building to replace Shaw Ridge Primary
Swindon Link has become an affiliate School is ready in less than a year’s time.
with www.localkids.co.uk which lists
activities and services for families “We’re all very excited by the The low building on the edge of
and offers discounts to make life more progress,” said headteacher Sally Shaw Ridge, adjacent to the exist-
affordable. Cowell, below. “The community ing school, is being built in a circle.
The pages are accessible to all but facilities and the hall at the entrance Some think it’s a doughnut, others
membership allows people to take to the building have a roof and the think it resembles the recently
advantage of discounts offered by local contractors brought in extra brick- launched large hadron collider.
and national businesses. layers to take advantage of good Designed by architects Eric Cole
Quote 9741ae9e when you join and weather in the Autumn. and Partners and built by Swindon
The Link will donate £1 to Swindon “Everybody was so keen to see Commercial Services, the school
based children’s groups. the builders start work and we’re will be faced in Cotswold stone
getting on well together. We used blockwork, with marine green
the new build as a theme for our window frames, green fascias and
artweek in October.” cream coloured soffits.

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