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Westlea party people Oliver Tomkins celebrated in traditional style
The May Link featured preparations for the royal wedding celebra-
tions at Toothill’s Oliver Tomkins Primary School and the desire of
headteacher Rhian Cockwell to hold a street party, just as she experi-
enced for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1976 when she was at school
in South Wales.
With the support of teachers and parents, tables were set up at the
front of the school for all the 380 children at the combined infant and
primary schools, from the nursery to Year 6 for a traditional celebration.
“I really wanted to create an experience which the children will be able
to recall as a shared memory,” said Mrs Cockwell. “I think we achieved
our aim; it was a wonderful occasion which children and their parents
can look back on as an important point in their lives.”
Before the big date over 100 reception and foundation stage children
walked up to St Mary’s Church in Lydiard Park to take part in a ‘wedding
ceremony’ involving Cinderella and Prince Charming. See the pictures
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pictured in our Golden Jubilee feature in 2002 and turned out again on 29 April
A mass of colour stretching into the distance in the school car park
off Beaumaris Road, Toothill

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