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Swindon Festival of Literature 2011
When it’s Spring in Swindon, it’s also the start of the festival season and tickets are now on sale for events at the 18th Swindon Festival of Literature. With its line-up of novelists, poets, politicians, philosophers, scientists, storytellers, sportsmen, historians, comedians, artists and activists, it will put a spring in your step.The festival is a [...]
Who Will Find the Swindon Time Capsule?
Swindon school pupils bury time capsule in John Lewis at home shop Children from Drove Primary School and Mountford Manor Primary School have made their own piece of history by burying a time capsule in the entrance of the new John Lewis at home shop currently under construction at the Mannington Retail Park. The shop, [...]
New College Annexe in Build
Preparations have begun for the new £10 million Annexe at New College’s Queens Drive campus, which will be open in time for the new intake of students in September 2011. The College has seen a steady increase in student numbers in recent years and is now reaching full capacity. New College caters for over 3,000 [...]
Sixth form plan for West Swindon
Now that pupils who start Year 9 in September will be expected to stay in some form of full time education or training until they reach the age of 18, Swindon schools are considering ways of providing courses and training opportunities beyond GCSEs taken in Year 11. Greendown, Nova Hreod and Crowdys Hill Special School [...]


