Cheer Dance Sucess!

3 weeks ago on Friday some of the Greendown girls took part in a street cheer competition against over schools in Swindon.KS3 took part in the dance category and KS4 took part in the cheer leading category.Both teams won a first place trophy , we interviewed some of the girls , this is what they answered...

WERE YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE OTHER COMPETITORS?
Yes, all of the groups were strong contenders and showed that they had spent a lot of time practising.We were shocked and surprised by the quality of their routines.

WERE YOU SHOCKED WHEN YOU FOUND OUT THE RESULTS?
We were completely astonished about the results.We knew all the teams are strong and when we were announced as winners we all ran and screamed in surprise and held up the trophy in triumph.

HOW MUCH DID YOU PUT INTO THE ROUTINE?
Alot, we all put in a 150%, the routine was difficult and absorbed all our time at lunches and after school.

By Hannah Adams And Zoe Samwell

SWINDON vs BRISTOL ROVERS NOV 22ND

Swindon vs Bristol Rovers - Greendown Pupils get special treatment!

Here we are, Glenn Franklin and Charlotte Milsom of year 11 at the top of the Uplands Stand. Mr Radford took us up to the top. True Swindon fans will know the scarf we are holding.

Now we have turned round looking west towards the Bristol town centre with the DAS enclosure behind us.

Here we are in this enclosure, after having walked around the pitch. This is the official executive box board welcoming Swindon’s Board of Directors.

And finally outside the Bass Terrace entrance where the Rovers fans stood. It was a great game and ended 2 all to Swindon!!

Marc R Radford BA (Hons)Lon, MA, PGCE
Français, Italiano, Español, ICT, WRC

Have you tried our delicious school dinners recentley?

As winter is approaching and temperatures are low would you like to be offered a warm satisfying meal from our school canteen.

You will be surprised and astonished just what you can find and discover in our wide range of food varieties.Containing soups with fresh veg tables including a soft creamy roll.Surprisingly the roast dinners are the most popular meal at the being , do you want to try your taste buds?

The prices are good compared to most of the secondary schools in Swindon.The food is not just good quality.It is also tasty and healthy with nice meals and delicious low fat cakes, shortbread and other nice desserts- type treats.

The cashless system has been really effective and give the hole catering system a really nice boost along with the food.

By Zoe Samwell And Hannah Adams

George Tweed Retirement home

Do you know about George Tweed? well, we started working with George tweed 2 years ago, the first thing we did was speaking to the link, they made an article saying the school wanted to get some fish for George Tweeds fish pond. people turned up with buckets of fish and then we bought them a computer and printer for there lounge about a year ago and they enjoyed using it so were paying for their Internet. the computer and printer cost about £500 together. were planning on taking some pupils from Greendown school to show them how to use it and invite them to a Christmas carol service trying to get them knowing a few faces

By Ashton and Kieron 8PV

RLC Banned at lunch!

As many of you know, you can't log onto the computers in the RLC at lunchtimes, Do you know why this is? its because some people have decided to put water in a £400 computer. They have also decided to trash the the RLC suite! this is silly behaviour as many people used this suite for homework and good reasons... Do you know that Greendown spent over £60,000 on the computers that now we are not aloud to use because of this silly behaviour...

We also decided to interview Mr McGlaughlin and this is what he told us:

1. Will we be able to get out RlC suite back at lunchtimes for students?
   A. 'Well we do need someone to supervise the suite at lunchtimes...'
2. Should we have a timetable for different years e.g Monday- yr 7, Tuesday - yr 8?
   A.'Yes, what we could do is have a student monitor to look after it at lunchtimes.'
3. What do you think about computers being trashed at lunchtimes?
   A. I think it is terrible behaviour and two computers have been trashed by people pouring water into them and that is a reason why we can't use the RLC.

Article by Josh Talbot, Holly Score - 8PV