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Education News

Art popping up in West schools Seasonal shopping

Thursday 10 November, 7pm to 9pm. Tadpole Farm Primary School on
Greene Street is hosting a shopping evening for residents of Tadpole
Garden Village. The evening will feature people from the area selling local
crafts and interesting shopping attractions, as well as refreshments to give
people the chance to meet each other.
Saturday 26 November, 3pm to 6pm. Freshbrook Church, Worsley Road
SN5 8NU. Christmas market in support of Swindon Night Shelter.
Crafts, gifts, choir, puppets. Refreshments.

Children’s hospice at home launched

Jessie May is a charity Caring for a
that provides specialist terminally ill child
nursing care for makes relentless
The Mondrian doors close to the entrance of Brook Field terminally ill children in their own demands on parents and Jessie May
complemented with colourful lockers homes, writes Debbie Clark. Nurses can care for their children
We offer vital respite care for a few hours at a time to allow
Following the October front page was interested in modern art. I don’t and emotional support to those them do the things we all take for
picture of pop art decorated paint as a hobby but had experience children’s families, as well as end granted, spending time with siblings
corridors to be found at Toothill’s in scaling up and copying artworks of life care, allowing families to or catching up on household chores.
Oliver Tomkins Primary School, we for school theatre productions. make the most of the precious time Jessie May Nurses help the whole
also visited Brook Field Primary “Children love to see an artwork they have together and creating family with practical and emotional
in Shaw to view some of the 11 evolving and they always stimulate treasured family memories. support. If parents decide they want
doorways featuring pictures in the a lot of discussion in the classroom Since 1996 Jessie May Nurses to care for their child at home in
style of famous artists. and in the playground,” said Lin. have provided hospice at home the last days of their life, our nurses
They were created by teaching She retired earlier in the year care to children in Bristol, Bath will help in any way they can. And
assistant Lin Jennings after to look after her grandson but and North East Somerset, South they continue to offer ongoing
headteacher Dan Clarke asked her hopes to return to Brook Field to Gloucestershire, North Somerset bereavement support for up to five
to brighten up the interior of the continue her project. She would and most recently, Swindon and years following a child’s death.
school. She said: “He was keen to also be interested in discussing Wiltshire. Sustaining an important service
create more surprises and knew I commissions at other schools. The charity also takes children for like Jessie May is very costly and we
fun days out, hosts respite days, and need your help. Find out more about
provides support to children who our work and how you could assist
are admitted to hospital. at www.jessiemay.org.uk

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