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No. 116 • November 1991 • Circulation 10,500
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Bonfire and Firework displays In the West Friday 1 November
Saturday 2 November
Tuesday 5 November
Toothill Farm Centre Bodiam Drive Toothill 6pm. Free
Events Field, Lydiard Park, off Hook Street
Westlea School Langstone Way Westlea
(Donations gratefully received) Ghouls, ghosts, dance performance by local youngsters. Bring your guys for the fire, refreshments
Gates open 6pm, Bonfire 6.30pm, Fireworks 7pm Adults £1, Children 50p. Refreshments (Note: This event has been moved from Lydiard Millicent Parish Hall as publicised in the October Link magazine) Organised by 1st Purton & Lydiard Scouts
Free half term bonfire workshop
6pm - 7pm Guy competition Refreshments Tickets £1, Children 60p on the gate
Free pre-school play with fire
Children have the chance to get into the spirit of bonfire night (with leftovers from Halloween) at a Haunted House Workshop, all afternoon on Friday 1st November, starting at 1230pm. Marie Brett from Swindon's Town Hall Dance Studios is organising a craft and dance workshop at Toothfll Farm Centre, Bodia m Drive. Youngsters will be making lanterns, bats, gouts and ghosties, and some will be working on a dance to be performed in front of the crowds at the bonfire at the farm during the evening. The workshops are entirely free and youngsters should just turn up ready to make and create.
Playscheme seasonal fun West Swindon's free playscheme - WASPS - joined in with the spirit of Halloween and Guy Fawkes with a week of half term activities for 5 to 12 year olds at Toothill Farm starting 28 October. Pictured below, some of the youngsters with their indoor bonfire sculpture, rockets and witches hats
The new FOCUS committee advertising their fire works hop,from left, Sue Sharpe, Chris Woodward, Audrey Hutchinson, Maria Bastin, Stephanie Ahmed, Kate Bason, Glynys Guntripp, Val Jordan Under Fives are getting in on the seasonal celebrations with their own Guy Fawkes event on Tuesday 5 November. The West Swindon Focus on Under5s is organising Fire Workshop in the Community Suite at the Link Centre. There will be red and orange playdough, model making, a story cornerand a chance for children and parents to help make a bonfire collage and a giant
rocket. It's entirely free! Of course there will be a fire safety display and Wiltshire Fire Brigade's Welephant will be visiting the workshop to get the safety message across. There will be refreshments and a raffle at the workshop which takes place between lOam and midday. • New Focus committee looks forward to future events - page 3.
Putting some balance into the education arguement Last month we featured exam result and comments from the headteachers of Bradon Forest, Greendown and Ridgeway Schools, the three secondary schools designated to receive West Swindon children. Regrettably, Greendown was the brunt of sensationalist and unfair reporting in the local evening paper during October. On pages 14 and 15 the head, staff and ex-students of Greendown put the record straight.