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SLEEK & SHINY STRAIGHTENING PACKAGE - SAVE £88 Date change at The Ridgeway School
ONLY 10 AVAILABLE - BOOK NOW 01793 487183 Tuesday 26 April will be a normal attendance day for staff and pupils at
An unbelievable £187 of value,yours for just £99 ! The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College in Wroughton.
The teacher training (Inset) planned for that day will now take place
BEFORE Brazilian Blow Dry Semi-Permanent on Friday 15 July when the school will be closed.
Hair Straightening using NEW Keratin
no wait formula, a revolutionary treatment
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damaged hair, and you can wash straight A project to provide a range of playground equipment to allow physi-
away - £99 cally disabled pupils to play with their able bodied friends at Westlea
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FREE New season Style and Cut valued at £25
AFTER FREE Tingling Scalp Massage valued at £10
FREE Hydration Hair Treatment valued at £25
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Beat the holiday boredom this Easter with
‘The Great Escape’ at Greendown School

11th April – 15th April 2011 9.30am - 3pm
9 - 13 years (current school year 5 to 8) £55 a week
Run by fully quali ed PE teachers children will have the opportunity to play a variety of sports
such as football, netball, hockey, badminton, volleyball, gymnastics, rounders, cricket,
athletics, dance, Danish long ball, hand ball, ultimate Frisbee and Dodge ball.
Places are limited. To book a place, please complete a booking form available from the school
or download from www.greendown.swindon.sch.uk/
For further information, please contact Greendown School on 01793 874224
Ben Morris on board the wheelchair swing close to the wheelchair roundabout
Marla Carroll, head of Special Marla’s thoughts have now turned
Resourced Provision, is delighted to fundraising for a nurture room
by the support the school has and indoor sensory equipment.
received. “We now have a cradle See more pictures at
seat swing, a wheelchair accessible www.swindonlink.com
swing and a roundabout, a picnic
Marla Carroll with children
table, and games mounted on fences at the cradle swing
at a height suitable for a child in a
wheelchair.
“It has taken over a year to
achieve and I’m delighted that
fi nally the inclusive ethos of the
classrooms has been extended into
the playground. Seeing the happy
faces on all the children as they play
alongside each other is wonderful.
We would like to thank GWR Kidz,
Rotary Club of Swindon Thames-
down, Aiming High Inclusion
Fund, St James Place Foundation,
and Blackfords Landscaping. To-
gether they provided over £33,500
in funding and work in kind.”
A grand launch is being planned.

Hosts to international partners
Westlea Primary School will wel- and teachers experience education
come eighteen teachers from eight systems and share good practice.
European countries, as well as half “Each project lasts for two years.
a dozen pupils, at the end of March This one is new but it’s the third that
as part of the Comenius exchange Westlea has been involved in. It’s
programme. fully fi nanced by the British Council
Headteacher Suzanne Seaton and no funding whatsoever comes
said delegates were travelling from from the school budget.
as far as Greece, Hungary and “We’re very excited about the visit
Turkey. “It’s part of a project that and proud to present our wonderful
brings a group of European schools school, its very special pupils and
together looking at the history of the our beautiful country to the many
arts, including paintings, sculptures, delegates from across Europe.”
monuments, music, and dance The next exchange will see
through the ages. The children re- Westlea teachers travelling to their
search and then share information partner school in Turkey.

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