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Colleen Smith Confusion causes primary places
Family Support consultation to be postponed
Two consultations due to be held in November on where to create an
additional 60 primary school places in North Swindon were put on
Do You Need Support? The Blackthorn School hold after Swindon Council discovered errors in a report to cabinet
Are You Fed Up With of Photography about the ownership of land at Mouldon Hill.
 Children’s Behaviour Digital image-making The council has identified
 Feeling Alone and black and white printing the need for the additional
 Being Stressed based at our specialist school places for September
teaching centre near Cricklade 2014 to cope with the contin-
Colleen is here to help Evening, day and weekend ued rise in pupil numbers.
Two options are under
For further Information: courses for beginners and consideration: the first is to
Phone: 07859 414 376 advanced photographers create another 30 places at
www.colleensmithfamilysupport.co.uk www.photography-courses.com Orchid Vale Primary School
[email protected] Tel: 01454 416937 in Haydon End, in addition
or 07920 116492
to the extra 30 opened in Sep-
tember 2011, and also building
a new single form entry school Attainment, Children Services,
on green fields north of Mouldon wrote to say they had been post-
Hill Country Park, to the west of poned whilst ownership of land at
Thamesdown Drive. Mouldon Hill was clarified. “The
The second option is to create a July 2012 cabinet report about the
English, Mathematics and Science new two-form entry school on the need for primary school places in
Mouldon Hill site. This would mean North Swindon stated that the land
Fully qualified teachers
the extra 30 places at Orchid Vale proposed for a new school was not
Accelerated GCSE programme would be phased out and the school within the boundary of Mouldon
11+ training and preparation would revert to single form entry. Hill Country Park.
Cllr David Renard, Swindon Bor- “Unfortunately, this was an error,
Free assessment and first lesson
ough Council’s Cabinet member for as further research has shown the
Boost your child’s confidence children’s services, said: “Despite land to be within the park albeit at
creating an additional 440 primary the periphery and in an area not
school places in North Swindon often frequented by members of
over the last five years, we are facing the public.”
NEW
a significant challenge to meet the This new information is to be
Childcare
on-going long-term demand and we reported to cabinet in December,
vouchers
accepted
need to build permanent capacity in before consultation on options are
order to meet that demand.” relaunched so that the September
However just before the con- 2014 deadline can be achieved.
sultations were due to take place The council has already agreed
All courses, Swindon on 12 and 13 November, Paddy to spend £4m on Haydonleigh
Bradley, Swindon Council Head Primary School to increase its roll
College
all ages... of Commissioning: Economy & from 430 to 630 by September 2014.
Join the success story... Animator continues passion for film
Open evenT Lewis Rogers, 18, who was selected as Film Club Young Ambassador
of the Year in 2012 is continuing his passion for all things film at the
Saturday 1st December ‘12 Bristol School of Animation at the University of the West of England.
and receive career advice from Toy
The former student of Green-
10am -12 noon down School and Cirencester Col- Story director John Lasseter.
Using his portfolio of work Lewis
lege started a degree in October,
continuing a journey he started is applying for a place on an 8 week
Information on all courses available! as an eight year old when he took animation course run by Disney
part in a Swindon Council Create studios in California next summer.
& advertised in The Link. young ambassador www.bit.ly/
Studios media circus workshop • Read about Lewis as a Film Club
join us for the launch
Lewis, from Haydon Wick, lewisyfa
of our new Performing
vividly recalls how his life
Arts courses for 2013,
workshop. “I was a big
delivered through the Wilkes changed instantly on the
fan of Pixar films and as
Academy of Performing Arts soon as I started the Create
at Swindon College workshop I knew that I
didn’t want to do anything
else. All my school books
Visit www.swindon-college.ac.uk for the became covered in cartoon
chance to win a Samsung M3 Portable 1 TB and animation ideas.”
As a film ambassador
External hard drive - REGISTER NOW! Lewis interviewed people
like Simon Pegg, Nick
Frost, Naomie Harris and
Swindon College, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Jason Isaacs at Leicester
Wiltshire, SN2 1DY | Switchboard:01793 491591 Square premieres. His big-
gest highlight was to chat to

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