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16 swindonlink.com • Sepember 2008

• Panicking First day of school for Bridlewood head
rHiNO New Term about Reception children will not be the only new faces at Bridlewood Pri-
mary School at the start of the autumn term.
maths?
For new headteacher, Jo Garton,
• New Shoes study in your own home the prospect of her first day was less
rite secondary maths teacher daunting as she knew she wouldn’t
with a fully qualified
be the only newcomer. As well as
the thirty arrivals in reception, there
start • start rite • BOOtleg • Clarks • Maths and accounts taught will be four other members of teach-
ing staff joining the school.
at GCSE, AS and A2
Ms Garton, who is moving from
Coursework guidance
• sHOes fOr kids Limited places available Wroughton Juniors where she was
from
Clarks Old town, swindon Call West Swindon to become head of Bridlewood. “The
deputy head, said it was a privilege
BlaylOCks
Competitive prices
Bath road Corner
school has a real family feeling. The
Home Tutors

younger ones. There’s a sweetness ers who can offer advice and those
• tel: 534271 on 870 495 older children are very caring to the ages including experienced garden-
about the school: both the children just starting out.
and adults have made a very open Speaking about her vision for the
and happy atmosphere.” school, she said she wants everyone
The head teacher wants to see to discover their gifts, through
Bridlewood at the heart of the lo- fresh experiences and learning
cal community. She said that up opportunities such as trying new
to now it has been difficult for the sports or art techniques. “I want to
school to build links because the find the talent that everyone’s got.
area has been under development. It boosts confidence and learning
Now that house building is coming leaps forward. For adults in the
to an end, Ms Garton hopes that a school, there will be professional
community gardening project will development to help them be the
attract interest from people of all person they want to be.”
Burying the past at Millbrook
As building work progresses on Millbrook Primary School, young his-
torians have buried a time capsule for a future generation to discover,
and ten year old Edward Watkins hopes to return to dig it up.
The specially
made lead cap-
sule was laid un-
der the entrance
Back to school! to the new school
with a plaque to
mark the spot.
The ceremony
at the and building
prompted staff
workers to won-
der what they
would be doing
when the capsule
is unearthed in
25 years. Head-
teacher Clare
After school club Griffin-Felton
admitted she
spaces available. would be enjoy- Clare Griffin-Felton and Sue Thorne with head of projects for
ing her retire-
Ofsted registered, ment by 2033. Swindon Commercial Services, and history club members Ed-
ward Watkins, Jessica Barker and Binika Gurung, and infants
Members of
qualified staff. the school’s his- Fraser Mosley, Daisy Johnson, Rachel Chalcraft
tory club were asked to select history, he added that he hopes
the contents of the lead capsule. to return to Millbrook as a 35 year
Working with teacher Sue Thorne old forensic scientist to dig the
SPECIAL OFFER they made their choice from school capsule up.

Buy one week and get the equivalent following week photos and included examples of Anne Marie Salmon, who has
work, the school rules and a record been a TA since the first day of
FREE, for newly registered children. Conditions apply. of what pupils like doing. The Link Freshbrook in 1981 joked, “they
supplied a CD of images going right should be putting me in the time
back to the early days of Freshbrook capsule.
Telephone: 01793 875992 and Windmill Hill which merged to “It’s the end of an era. When
www.thebigaclub.co.uk become Millbrook in 2007. the new school opens it will be the
“We looked for things that told start of an important new phase for
the story of both schools from when children and families in Freshbrook
Free funded nursery spaces also they started and also how they came and Grange Park.”
available in Isambard School. together,” said Edward Watkins. • See some of the pictures from The
As a lover of both science and Link CD at www.swindonlink.com

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