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BOOK-KEEPING Prizes for art to beat anti-social behaviour
Swindon Community Safety Partnership is offering a DS lite, iPod shuffl e and book vouchers for the
Can’t face best artwork which illustrates different aspects of anti-social behaviour.
doing the books There are two age announced at an awards
after a hard categories: 11 to 14 years ceremony at Swindon
day’s work? and 15 to 16 years. The Town Football Club on
winning artwork from
28 January.
Call Leonard Fuller, each age category will Entries must be sub-
A.I.C.B, be used on new CSP mitted, presented por-
qualified bookkeeper advice and information trait not landscape, on
leafl ets about anti-social
plain white A4 paper,
with over 15 years’ behaviour which will be with name, age, school
experience. distributed throughout and academic year writ-
Tel: 01793 700637 Swindon and read by ten clearly on the back
of the entry.
members of the public,
or 07963 637748 including victims of Enter via your school
www.bookkeepingswindon.co.uk anti-social behaviour. or send entries by 5pm
Entrants can choose on Friday 18 December,
to illustrate just one to: Swindon CSP Art
COMPUTER SUPPORT aspect of anti-social Competition, Swindon
behaviour, such as graf- Community Safety
Computer problems? fi ti, littering, bullying, The Keeping Swindon Safe bus visited West Swindon Centre during Partnership, Premier
Let us help misuse of drugs and ‘Not in my Neighbourhood Week’ at the end of October. Julie Williams House, Station Road,
We provide a range of computer alcohol or noise nui- with Megan, Natalie Botwright and Callum Anderson were provided Swindon SN1 1TZ.
services for both home and sance, or a combination with community safety information and advice by crime reduction Terms and conditions
business including: of behaviours. offi cer Roland Thacker, Neighbourhood Environment Safety Offi cer are available at: www.
• PC repairs and maintenance The winners will be Jane Dudley and Graham Weller of Wiltshire Fire & Rescue swindon-csp.org.uk
• System upgrades, networking
• Custom built computers
• Windows home server installs ‘Outstanding leadership’ pulls Nova Hreod
• Virus removal
• Data recovery out of Ofsted scrutiny
• Internet solutions
With over 15 years experience, An Ofsted inspection of Nova Hreod School in mid-October has declared it is a ‘rapidly improving school’
you can rely on us and no longer requires a Notice to Improve.
Tel: 01793 325685 Delighted headteacher Julie
Tridgell said the outcome was very
pleasing given that the inspection
OVEN CLEANING had taken place against a new, much
tougher framework compared to
the last inspection in June 2008
which had set terms for signifi cant
improvements at the school.
Ovens, ranges, agas, hobs Other points made in the report:
extractors and microwaves • There has been an increase in the
Fixed pricing examples number of good (grade 2) judge-
Single Oven £30 - Range £55 ments since the last inspection (16
No hidden extras, in this inspection compared to 2 in
includes racks, doors, glass in June 2008);
20 years experience • Students say they are safe and
No toxic chemicals in your home happy and that the school listens to
Reliable & Friendly them and addresses their concerns;
Free Quotation • Students are proud of the school
To book your oven clean call and at times the inspection team
07766 418718
or email: [email protected] were ‘mobbed’ by young people Julie Tridgell with Nova Hreod school councillors Paige White, Kate Lloyd, Luke
to tell them of their pride of being
Waldon, Lydia Roberts, Fraser Gingell, Callum McLean, Chloe Birch
a Nova Hreod student;
SCRAP METAL • Behaviour is rapidly improving; teacher has provided outstanding improve our provision further.”
• Attendance is good;
The report comes after a long
leadership, instigating a number of
RODDERS • Signifi cant progress has been changes that are leading to signifi - period of Ofsted scrutiny of Nova
made in a very short period of time; cant improvement. Weaknesses in Hreod which was put on the
SCRAP • Nova Hreod is developing a management identifi ed previously government’s national challenge
METAL culture of high expectation and has been addressed and the school programme because fewer than 30
is improving rapidly.
per cent of pupils achieved 5+ GCSE
challenge;
All metals removed • Nova Hreod is very close to Mrs Tridgell said, “the success A to C grades, including English
outstanding judgements on care, has come from teamwork right and Maths.
FREE of charge guidance and support, on the across the school and beyond - every The September 2008 Link, follow-
Washing machines, cookers, quality of the curriculum and the person who works at Nova Hreod, ing that summer’s 35 per cent 5+ A
microwaves etc. school’s engagement with parents. all the students and their parents - to C passes (inc. English and Maths),
Sorry no fridges or freezers The inspection team congratu- have contributed to the inspector’s reported Mrs Tridgell introducing
Scrap cars collected FREE of charge lates Nova Hreod for making judgement. new systems to boost performance
01793 613396 signifi cant and rapid progress in “We’re very pleased. I would like and a can-do culture at Nova Hreod.
a relatively short period of time to express my thanks to the parents
In July this year 43 per cent of
07899 018167 and points out that in the fourteen who contributed to the inspection students achieved 5+A to C grades
Registered waste carrier months since she arrived, the head- and for their comments on how to (inc. English and Maths).

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