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Thanet School News ContentsPage 4 - Radio Star at the Marlowe AcademyPage 5 - Haddon Dene Excel in Thanet Speech & Drama FestivalPage 6 - East Kent Mencap & Foreland School enjoy host of activitiesPage 8 - Dane Court Supports Pilgrims HospicePage 9 - Inspire & Attwood Academy Choir play host to Thanet
Schools at St Paul’s CathedralPage 10 - LOTTIE EVANS - Bridging the gap between education and the workplace (Part 1)Page 11 -Page 15 - Hartsdown Celebrate successful Word-Up festivalPage 16 - Charles Dickens Starlet Ryan Huddard signs for ArsenalPage 17 - St Peters….Ready…Steady…CookPage 17 - St Peters Meet Taekwon-Do World ChampionPage 18 - Cliftonville raise money for Sports ReliefPage 19 - Holy Trinity Get Egg-stra CreativePage 19 - Free Family Gardening Sessions at GarlingePage 20 - Primary Handball Stars of the FuturePage 21 - Newington Centurians Celebrate in StylePage 21 - Newington Dress up as characters from Peter PanPage 22 - St Mildred’s take trip to Council Offices
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Thanet School News is the first publicationcoming out with our new look front cover andwith some new ideas that our new team havehad.This is the 18th edition of Thanet School Newsand after 2 years we have grown and our successin Thanet has helped us to move into the Dover,Deal, Sandwich area, the schools in this areaabsolutely love their new publication and so wehave decided to increase the number ofpublications to 5, we will be moving into the
Canterbury area, deadline 23rd May, theWhitstable & Herne Bay area, deadline 4thJune and the Folkestone area, deadline 10thJune.We are now based within the MarloweInnovation Centre.Part of our new team includes TracyMistretta, our marketing Executive withinThanet and Dan Williams who is going towork with the schools on editorial and helpingthem get their name out in the local area.The deadline for the next edition of ThanetSchool News will be Friday 30th May.
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Academy fm is both a familiar and reassuring voice tomany people over Thanet’s airwaves. Providing localnews, weather and a diverse collection of music to suitall tastes.
However, this station also provides a significant role inthe advancement of practical real-world media educationin Thanet schools. Based at the Marlowe Academy,Academy fm plays a pivotal role in identifying, nurturingand developing upcoming talent in students.
Zach Webb, 15, student at the Marlowe Academy andrising star of Academy fm, joined the station when he wasjust 13:
“It’s all about talking to people and developingrelationships, we are part of the community and so muchmore than just a radio station, we become part ofsomeone’s routine and timekeeping schedule.”
Zach currently runs his own 3 hour interactive live showon a Friday evening and does so on a voluntary basis inaddition to his regular studies;
“I would say to anyone wanting a career in media to justdo it, it was an incredibly steep learning curve, but is veryrewarding.”
Zach intends on progressing his media broadcastingstudies at Canterbury College and intends on becominga professional radio presenter.
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Haddon Dene School children been awarded eight first place medalsand three prestigious trophies at the Speech and Drama Section of theThanet Festival. Gabriella Rothman, in Year 5, won the ‘FranksTrophy for Bible Reading Year 8 and under’, whilst OolongMcPherson in Year 3 won the ‘Year 6 and under cup for Speech’,alongside which Thomas Blades from Year 4 won the ‘Lanes cup forOverall Performance’.Mrs Bourne, the schools Director of Drama said “Every year I amoverwhelmed by the exceptional standard of work produced, and thehigh level of discipline maintained by the children, this year was noexception. With only 13 children entering (all of whom take speech
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and drama classes and work towards theirLAMDA examinations at Haddon Dene)their dominance remained throughout allclasses entered. My congratulations go to allof the children, all of which they took theirtime to learn their lines with such accuracyand performed their selections withoutstanding control and precision.”
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During the February half term holidays, EastKent Mencap ran a 3-day youth clubproviding activities and the chance for 12young people with learning disabilities tomeet up in the community, make friends andhave fun!EKM received £1,000 from Kent CountyCouncil, & £3,076.50 from the LadbrokesCharitable Trust for the club, running fromMonday through to Wednesday.The Forelands School in Broadstairs,provided a drop off/pick up point for parentson all three days, and the activities includedtrips to the Powell – Cotton Museum atQuex Park, Bowling at AMF, and Pick ‘n Painta Pot in Cliftonville. ‘This was the first time we were able toprovide activities for the group in theFebruary Half-Term,’ comments Youth Co-ordinator Ange Brown, ‘With only 3 daysavailable, we had to make each day count.Thanks to KCC & Ladbrokes CharitableTrust for making the event happen, all staff& volunteers who didn't stop moving,Forelands School for having us again, as theyhave hosted our Summer Club in the past,Keiko Higashi at the Powell – CottonMuseum, AMF Bowling Margate, and Teresa& Stuart at Pick ‘n Paint a Pot.’
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Students at Dane Court Grammar School have beenraising funds for one of the chosen house charities,The Pilgrim's Hospice. Both Barcelona and Sorrento,two of the Houses at Dane Court joined together andorganised a range of activities some of which werefairly unique.The fundraising began with Emily Bennett 14, fromBroadstairs (Pictured Right) of Sorrento organising thefirst ever school sleepover for her year 9 class in theprocess the students raised over £200. This wasfollowed by girls from Barcelona spending two weekscollecting as many coins as they could to fill a massiveheart at a 20p Bazaar Event hosted by both Houses.The Bazaar included one of the biggest Tombola everseen at the school as students brought in over 250prizes for the stall. Emily was delighted to have raised£660 in total which was presented in the form of a
cheque to Jo Spiteri (Pictured Left), Youth FundraisingCoordinator at the Pilgrim’s Hospice. Thepresentation took place in the last week of termbefore the Easter holiday.Emily said ‘I spoke with our Head Teacher to ask if Icould organise a sleepover and Bazaar, the meetingwent very well and I was given permission to organisethe sleepover much to the delight of my class. As aresult of all this fundraising we managed to raise anamazing £660. I was really proud of my class as theevents were a huge success. I would like to thank MrsRiley, my head of house, for the tremendousencouragement and support she gave me whilst I wasorganising these events’
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On the 13th March, more than 600children from five Thanet schoolstravelled to St Paul’s Cathedral, Londonfor an Inspire event. The “Inspire” serviceand celebration was organised by theAttwood Foundation. Northdown,Newlands, Salmonstone, Drapers Millsand Dame Janet, all part of the TheKemnal Academy Trust, took part in theservice and the Attwood Academy choirsang four beautiful songs. The choir wasmade up of 206 pupils from the fiveschools and led expertly by Sam Palacios.Sam has been working with the childrensince September and this was the secondconcert they have performed. InDecember they sang a variety of songs atMargate Winter Gardens. However, theopportunity to sing in the hallowedCathedral inspired and awed the choir.Banners from each school were paradedduring the service and former ScotlandRugby winger Kenny Logan gave aninspirational speech and described to thechildren how he had difficulties at schoolbut never gave up.ames Kendall, head teacher ofNorthdown Primary School, said: "Thetrip to St Paul's was an incredibleopportunity for our children to visit oneof the most historic and iconic buildingsthis country has to offer. It is essentialthat we give our children as many
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experiences as possible in the earlyyears of their education and theexcitement that it has generated willremain at the school for a very longtime."The Attwood Foundation is the brainchild of Tom Attwood – businessman -who has set up Attwood Foundation tohelp children in Thanet. Tom Attwood,Chairman of Thanet AcademiesGoverning Board and Commissioner ofthe Social Mobility and Child PovertyCommission and the brainchild behindthe event said:”Alongside addressing theimmediate need to provide high qualityeducation, one of our guiding principlesis striving to instil in our pupils a senseof ambition, the capacity to communicateand team work, inspiring them tosucceed in all walks of life. That, inessence, is what this service is all about– a celebration and recognition ofcontinued hard work and determination.St Paul’s has hosted some of history’smost momentous events, and ourstudents performing at such an iconicbuilding in the capital will go down as oneof our proudest moments.”
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Lotties Journey: Bridgingthe gap between educationand employment
Name: Lottie Evans Age: 18Job Title: Media & MarketingAssistant - School News GroupCurrently studies at: Canterbury CollegeCurrently Studying: BTEC Level 3 Media Print and JournalismStudied at: Dane Court Grammar SchoolAmbition: Crime Writer - Journalist
We are constantly reminded that we live in difficult times.Finishing an education course is no longer a guarantee offinding work. Employers are stressing the importance ofwork experience now more than ever. But does that meanthat we should abandon the education route for vocationaltraining? Lottie Evans is a shining success story of the cando attitude that is encouraging a new generation ofstudents into education.
Lottie is an aspiring crime journalist, currently workingwithin the media sales department here at School Newsgroup. A distance learning student at Canterbury College,Lottie brings to the team a range of skills, and an ambitionto succeed in the world of media publishing,
"I'm just getting started, but my main role is in sales andmarketing; which involves developing relationships andnetworking with local businesses. It's difficult at times, butexciting at the same time".
However, Lottie has ambitions outside of sales and has alsobeen published -
"I've always wanted to write, and at school it's the thing Iwas best at. And looking into what I wanted to do in thefuture, Journalism was the course that sparked my interestat college." Lottie credits this drive to her current studiesat Canterbury College, and also her current work here atSchool News Group.
When asked why she decided to complete her studies viadistance learning, Lottie was very vocal about theimportance of combining studies with real world workexperience, in order to be successful
"I think it's very important that people understand howvaluable it is to have a good mixture of education and workpractice, it helps you start off in work with a better
understanding of what's going on around you. Distancelearning works for me because I find it easier to work fromhome because I don't get distracted. I have weekly tutorialswith my lecturer and pick up work from the college on aweekly basis".
Lottie is published within this edition of Canterbury SchoolNews - give her some feedback [email protected]
Christopher Smith, 15, who attends SirRoger Manwoods in Sandwich has written areview on War Horse the play performedat The National Theatre in London’s WestEnd.
“War Horse is a fabulous play, adapted fromthe book written by Michael Morpurgo tofit the beautiful stage in the New LondonTheatre. The use of props to make thehorses come to life was fantastic, thepuppeteers blended in well with the horse’scolour so that you didn’t notice them. It isnormal that, when a book is turned into aplay, the connection between twocharacters is somewhat lessened. However,this wasn’t the case with War Horse; thelove and affection between Albert and Joeyfrom the book had been smartly transferredby Nick Stafford onto the stage without theconnection between the two charactersbeing weakened. Those final scenes of theshow sent even the toughest men teary eyed”
overall I rate War Horse a 6.
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“The children start off by looking at Africa as a continent andnot a country, we then look at the different countries andenvironments and also the animals that live there. Thestudents would then look at the differences between thecountries and the different cultures that exist there,comparing these with life in the UK.”In order to celebrate and showcase the good work that thechildren do; students participate in an “Africa Day” wherebydifferent events and activities are held during the day includingAfrican Drumming and Mask building.Brandon McGinty (pictured with his mask), age 10, lovedlearning about African culture - his mother Gemma Griffithssaid that“Brandon loved learning about Africa, and in particular theAfrican Masks, he was really excited when he came home andtold us how much he had enjoyed these lessons”.The childrens work is showcased within the school for all tosee.
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A gala night show celebrated the second annual successfulWord Up Literacy Festival at Hartsdown Academy in Margate.The month-long festival is part of Hartsdown’s ongoing literacydrive and it featured workshops with visiting professionalsincluding authors and poets, creative writing, storytelling, andfilm-making.To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WorldWar I this year’s festival had a War and Peace theme thatexplored conflict and resolution across the centuries up tothe modern day.Students visited the war graves in Ypres in Belgium and laidwreaths at the Menin Gate for the Last Post ceremony to thefallen, writing inspired poetry in the cemeteries.Investigating Operation Dynamo and the part the little shipsplayed in the D Day evacuation was carried out bystudents in Dover and Ramsgate, while the HomeFront educational bus with four wartime scenes andartefacts on board visit the college.As part of the festival celebration performing artsstudents put on Mikey the Mod’s story, speciallywritten for Hartsdown by award-winning children’sauthor Geraldine McCaughrean.It was adapted from her acclaimed new book thePositively Last Performance that is built aroundfolklore and true stories about Margate, renamedSeashaw for the book.The gala event also included a performance of thepoignant final World War 1 trench scene from theBlack Adder
television series, a reading of In Flanders Fields,comedy sketches written by students , films and anawards ceremony.
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Rising soccer star Ryan Huddart is well on the way toachieving his dream of top flight soccer – he signedprofessional terms for his beloved Arsenal this month onhis 17th birthday.The 6ft 3in England under 17 squad goalie put pen to paperwith Arsenal legend Liam Brady who is the club’s head ofyouth development – a big step forward for the former student from The Charles Dickens School, Broadstairs,which supported his move to the Gunners Academy aged 15.Ryan – whose father and granddad are well known in sporting circles – moved from schoolboy soccer to CharltonAthletic to Arsenal and his first pro contact will keephim there at least until he is 19.In the recent Arsenal programme for the ChampionsLeague match against Napoli, Ryan is featured in atwo-page special.He says he “hasn’t looked back” joining the Academyat Shenley. He writes: “This has given me a massiveboost especially as I got the chance to train with oneof my all-time idols, Jens Lehmann.“Jens is the goalkeeper that I most looked up to. Hehad a real presence, made the right decisions and hadhis own style of ‘keeping’. I had the honour of workingtwice a week with him last season and that reallyhelped me.”Ryan, who has already appeared for Arsenal under21s this season, said: “I am working hard to keepprogressing and, having had a taste of playing at thatlevel, I want more.”Head teacher Andrew Olsson said: “The school isfollowing Ryan’s excellent progress closely – hecertainly is working hard and learning well. He maybe another young England keeper in the mould of JoeHart.”Sports master Gary McClennan, who oversaw Ryan’smove from The Charles Dickens School to theArsenal Academy, added: “We are all extremelyproud of Ryan.”It is a long journey from schoolboy football with localside Trinity and The Charles Dickens teams to thePremiership but goalie Ryan has his future in his ownhands.
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An exciting live cookery show, organised byChartwells the school meals provider, came to StPeters last week.Led by chef, Tim, two teams of pupils and teacherscompeted to produce the best balanced meal withina 15 minute period. As part of the show pupils hadthe chance to vote on the dish they thought was thebest.Children from years 5 and 6 learnt key healthyeating messages as well as watching an interactiveshow.The red team, led by Year 5 teacher Mrs Kinloch,were the winners with their meal of turkey burgersand noodles.Mrs Kinloch said ‘Both Red and Green groupsworked well as teams and it was great fun as wellas being informative’.
Last week, Lucy Wolf, a world champion, came intoschool with her team to promote Master Wolf’sTaekwon-Do clubs.
They worked with the Year 5 children who were allgiven the chance to participate.
Simon Hillier, Sports Development Manager, said ‘It wasa really good experience for the children to work with aworld class tutor. All of the children and staff enjoyedthe sessions and it is hoped that some will try Taekwon-Do outside school hours.’
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Cliftonville Primary School pupils have played their part inthis year’s record-breaking national Sport Relief Appeal.
Pupils, staff and families worked together to collect a best-ever total of £771 during a week-long programme of funevents.
These included collecting more than £200 in coins whichwere laid out in the playground in a Sport Relief emblem; awhole school dance-a-thon with 670 pupils dancing to theSport Relief school song called Step It Up; a relay mile; abake-off competition; and a non-uniform day where staffand pupils dressed as their favourite sportsperson.
The final total was unveiled by assistant head teacher ClaireWhichcord at the school’s end of term celebration at HolyTrinity Church, Cliftonville.
Ms Whichcord praised everyone who took part and added:“The School Council organised and ran all the events whichwere fantastic. It was one of our most successful charityappeals.”
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Good sports at Cliftonville Primary haveraised more than £500 as part of thenationwide Sport Relief Appeal.Pupils, staff and famlies took part in a week-long programme of fun events and every childin the school played their part.Assistant head teacher Claire Whichcord said:“These included creating our Sport Relief'coin art' mural in the shape of the charity’semblem on the playground which alone raisedmore than £200 in donated coins.“We have been lucky enough to have our'coin art' mural on the Sport Relief website(http://www.sportrelief.com/schools/primary).”The busy schedule also featured a wholeschool dance-a-thon with 670 pupils alldancing to the Sport Relief school song calledStep It Up.A sponsored Sport Relief relay mile aroundthe playing fields was tackled by more than200 pupils, while the Great Cliftonville Bake-Off saw more than 30 entries of tempting andtasty treats made by staff and parents judgedand then sold off very cheaply to raise morefunds.The non-uniform day had a theme for staff andpupils to dress up as their favouritesportsperson. There were some fantasticcostumes from the pupils, while among thestaff strong contenders were Mr Briggs wholooked great as snooker champ Steve Davies,and Mr Clayson who dusted off his cricketwhites to be 'Bossingham's best fast bowler,ever.Ms Whichcord added: “All the activities weredeveloped and run with the School Councilwho were amazing. They organised and ledthe events ensuring that everything wentsmoothly. Well done to all. “A big thank you goes to all the parents whohelped their children whether by baking acake or making fantastic costumes.”
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Eggs-cellent Creativity InspiresChildren at
Holy TrinityPupils at Holy Trinity, Margate, were shockedand ‘eggs-cited’ as they walked into school andsaw a giant egg partially hidden on the bankwithin their school grounds. What was it? Whohad put it there? What could it be for?Of course none of it was a surprise to the staffat the school. It is all part of their creative driveto engage and inspire children at their school.“In fact,” explained Head teacher Mr Short “allthe talk and rumours were ‘eggs-actly’ what weplanned! Anything that gets their mindsthinking and puzzling is just the start for the
teachers to build on.”That is precisely what they have been doing all week. Withsome classes going up to investigate and others writingelaborate stories and talking about the egg all children havebeen getting innovative with the subject. “It has been veryfertile for hatching original ideas” quipped Mr Short.The school, which less than a year ago got a resounding‘Good’ in its OFSTED inspection, is putting creativity at theheart of its learning. With a new curriculum being rolled outacross the country from September Holy Trinity intends toblaze a trail to develop such thinking at the centre of itsapproach. The school confidently believes this will take itfrom good to Outstanding.
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Families are invited to come along to freegardening sessions, which take place eachSaturday from 1 to 4pm.The sessions are quite informal and designed tobe fun and help engage children into a healthierlifestyle.The children and their parents will get to plantseeds, water plants, weed and learn all aboutplants and growing as well as the best bit, gettingto taste the produce.There is a polytunnel in case it rains and a logcabin where refreshments are served. You cancome every week or when time allows.The sessions are held at the Quartet CommunityAllotment Garden in Garlinge, Margate(offBrooke Avenue)For directions and further information, pleasecontact Nicola Wood 07845 979024 or [email protected]
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Handball was one of the most popular sports at theLondon Olympics and it is certainly beginning to make amark on Thanet. With the newly formed ThanetHandball Club up and running, it is great to see manyschools are also getting into the spirit of this fast movingand exciting sport. The Club had its first match at KentUniversity last weekend. On the evidence of the recentPrimary Handball Championships, the talent pool for thefuture is very good indeed.The Primary event was a wonder of co-operation. It wasorganised by School Sport Organizer at Chatham andClarendon GS Dave Walton, who is also HonoraryChairman of Thanet Handball Club. Using contacts fromhis previous role as an SSCO in Thanet, he was able toget portable goals from Dane Court and use the sportshall at Ellington&Hereson to ensure a quality experiencefor all those who took part. The referee was MattEverett, Hon Secretary and Coach at Thanet HandballClub. Sixth form sports leaders fromChatham&Clarendon GS ensured the smooth running of
went away with the title of Thanet Primary SchoolHandball Champions and fully deserved the title. Thecoach, Simon Hillier, deserves every credit for gettingthem prepared for the event.
PRIMARYHANDBALLSTARS OFTHE FUTURE
the event. All deserve great thanksTeams from St Peter’s Dame Janet, Upton and St Nicholaswere engrossed in some thrilling matches, many of whichwere not decided until the final seconds. The semi-finalswere tense affairs. St Peter’s had too much experiencefor Upton `B` and Upton `A` just overcame a well-organised St Nicholas `A` with a late goal.St Nicholas `A` overcame Upton `B` 2-1` to take thirdspot. The final was excellent. Upton `A` worked hard tocompete with an accomplished St Peter’s side. Theyconceded an early goal, but then held out and had chancesto level. In the end St Peter’s were just too good andscored to late goals to run out easy winners 3-0. They
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Neverland came to Newington community primaryschool when pupils celebrated world book day.The inspired and inspirational work of JM Barrie’s PeterPan saw pupils and staff dressed as characters from theclassic children’s story including Peter Pan, Tinkerbell,Capt Hook, Smee, Tiger Lily, Crocodile, Wendy and theLost Boys.Head teacher Cliff Stokes said: “Literacy is a daily partof our curriculum but on world book day we cometogether as a school with a central theme.“This year it is Peter Pan and our boys and girls areencouraged to really get involved with the story, dressas characters, and focus entirely on reading for pleasure.”A visiting theatre group presented a short stage versionof the show for pupils, who used their writing skills forfollow up work.Parents were also invited into Newington to read withtheir children as part of the series of activities wherefamilies work with pupils on a range of topics which alsoinclude English, Maths and Science.
News from Newington Community Primary School
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The Newington Centurions have celebrated theirrewards for good behaviour and showing respect.Pupils become centurions when they collect 100coloured counters – they can be awarded a counter atthe end of the day when they show the right attitudewith fellow classmates and staff over work and behaviorin and around the school.They collect the counters through the weeks and canredeem them for ‘rewards’ or save them up to becomemembers of the newly-launched Centurion Club.The latest senior pupil Centurions cashed their chipsand voted for a laser quest challenge using laser guns,while younger members of the 100 club chose to havea tea party.Head teacher Cliff Stokes said: “These two events showthe diverse rewards that our pupils can earn byconsistently demonstrating important life lessons aboutrespect, behaviour and tolerance of others.”
CenturionsCelebrate
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St Mildreds SchoolCouncil Takes a Tripto the Council OfficesOn Wednesday 5th March, our School Councillors took atrip on a mini bus to the Thanet Council Chamber for thelaunch of the KM Green Champions initiative.At the event they learnt about the traffic problems affectingThanet schools. The school councillors listened to facts outabout congestion and pollution which is caused by carsdriving to school everyday.The children also learnt about the new ‘Green Championsscheme’ and how they can promote it at St. Mildred’s!The children were fantastic ambassadors for our school asthey listened keenly and asked intelligent questionswhen talking to Thanet councillor, Iris Johnston.
‘ How can we encourage grown ups to walk us toschool when it is raining?’Maya, Viking Bay Year 2
They got to sit in the councillor's seats in the Chamber anduse their special microphones to speak.
‘Why doesn’t every school have a Lolly Pop Person?’Nathan, Pegwell Bay Year 1
Keep an eye out for ways you can be involvedwith ‘Green Travel Champion.’
The School Council will be leading St. Mildred’sto promote
green travel to school.But for now remember:� Walk to school on Wednesday
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� If you do need to drive- Park and Stride
Keep the Pedestrians safe- No Parking on theYellow Lines.
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