Video star pupils
ST MARGARET’S Prep School in Calne is the only primary school in Wiltshire to gain an award which shows it is using new technology to make sure its children receive an education fi t for the 21st century. T e school has gained the 3rd Millennium Learning Award after creating a video to show it has embraced computer technology. T e video, starring the school’s pupils, showed children fi lming each other in class, on a nature trail, and making music using digital technology. Its submission will now be used to show other schools how they can use technology in a variety of ways to stimulate learning. St Margaret’s was invited to take part in a pilot project by Naace, an organisation which promotes ICT in schools.
Rookwood heroes swim
FOUR BOARDING pupils from Rookwood School have kick-started a year-long campaign to raise money for Help for Heroes with a marathon swimming session at Tidworth Leisure Centre. Fourteen-year-olds Hannah Scott,
Ieuan Treadwell, Chelsea Mapps and Robert Cousins (12) all swam 64 lengths in under 45 minutes, raising £400 in the process. H4H is a cause with a personal link to many Rookwood families, a number of which are stationed at military bases. Martyn Crowe, Rookwood’s
Hazlegrove tennis stars
HAZLEGROVE PUPILS have had outstanding success at the IAPS National Tennis competition. Congratulations go to twins Sophie and Olivia for winning the U12 Girls’ Doubles and to Olivia for winning the U12 Girls’ Singles. Special mention also goes to Tilly who was runner up in the U12 Girls’ Doubles (playing with a girl from another school), to Sophie, Rosie and Clementine for reaching the semi-fi nals and to William and Tim for making it through to the latter stages of the U14 Boys’ Doubles Cup – still an impressive feat given the keen competition. The investment in Hazlegrove tennis is
clearly paying dividends. The new courts, with diff erent playing surfaces and fl oodlights, have allowed more children to play tennis for more time. Full-time tennis coach Emma-Claire Parkin Bowes has a busy and varied schedule, from teaching the youngest pupils in Pre-Prep as part of the curriculum, to providing one-to-one tuition to those pupils wishing to take their tennis to the next level.
boarding house master, will support pupils with a sponsored beard shave in the autumn term, the fi rst time his beard has been removed for 32 years.
Pinewood woodland on shortlist
PINEWOOD SCHOOL has been shortlisted for the final of the Royal Forestry Society Woodland Awards in the schools section. This is in recognition of their work with the Pinewood Community Woodland Project which has seen 10.3 hectares of broadleaf woodland planted
within the school grounds, which is shared with the local community. Ruth Hall, director of education at
Pinewood, said: “The woodland is already providing a habitat for an amazing diversity of wildlife and is giving pupils an opportunity to explore nature first hand.”
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