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One Year to Go Members


of local swimming


clubs and youngsters from Eltham CoE school saw history in the making when


they were invited to the Olympic Pool as part of the "One Year to Go" celebrations.


YOUNG ELTHAM


Eltham based Luke Brown, Tilly Evans, George Newman and Joseph White along with Rahul Shrestha from the Greenwich Swimming Club attended the event, with swimmers from the Eltham Stingray club.


They all saw medal hopeful Tom Daley performing the fi rst ever public dive at the Aquatic Centre, the GB synchr onised swimming junior team perform a routine, and an Olympic veterans race with Mark Foster and Duncan Goodhew.


Water Aid Queenscroft


often walk for ten miles or more every day to collect fresh supplies.


Park may bear little resemblance to rural Africa, but a connection has been made by the students of Year 8 at Eltham Hill school. During a project about the importance of fresh drinking water, the students learned that, in rural Africa, women


To test the diffi culties involved in this, the students organised a sponsored walk around the park carrying a weighted container on their heads for part of the journey to simulate the real thing.


The walk was sponsored and the funds raised given to Water Aid, which sponsors the digging of wells in developing countries. The walk was held as part of Eltham Hill’s MAD (Make A Diff erence) programme before the summer holidays.


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