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This 'mini-site' has been created for Tregoze School by
www.swindonlink.com
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Karen Winterburn will be visiting teachers and children at Waratah public school and Charleston East public school in Newcastle, New South Wales following a visit to Tregoze by teachers Jill Campbell from Peter Campbell on 27 September. Tregoze is a ten class, well resourced, primary school for 4 to 11 year olds that opened in September 1991. It is set in pleasant grounds that children, parents and teachers have continued to improve. It was built to serve the Grange Park area the expansion area of west of Swindon. The first people arrived in West Swindon in 1976 and Grange Park was built between 1982 and 1990. House building in West Swindon was completed this year. However the history of the site goes back a long way. The name Lydiard Tregoze comes from two sources. Lydiard is a pre-Saxon word for settlement and Tregoze is the name of the land owning family who came over from Troisgots in Normandy, France after William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066. As a result of the victory and a reward for supporting William I, the Troisgots were given the lands surrounding the manor house that stood where the Lydiard House can now be found, just half a mile from Tregoze School. Through a series of marriages the estate passed to the St John family who owned it from the middle of the 15th Century to 1943 when it had to be sold to settle family debts. Swindon Council took over the house and park and it is now a major tourist attraction. Tregoze was built on the site of an old Rectory which was knocked down in the mid-1980s. Hundreds of years ago there used to be a village of Lydiard Tregoze next to the school site and the remains of foundations can be seen on the ground. But there is little information on this and it believed that the village disappeared between the year 1200 and 1300 as a result of the plague destroying its population. Since opening Tregoze School has continued to grow and we presently have 296 children on roll. Tregoze had a successful Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspection in April 1998 which commented: "This is a happy school, where pupils develop sound personal skills within a caring, supportive ethos". Teaching standards were "...good and this is a strength of the school". Recent end Key Stage tests have been very good. In 1998, 85% of 11 year olds reached Level 4 in maths and English. At Key Stage 1, 100% achieved Level 2 in maths 93% in reading and 95% in writing. The school is well equipped and resourced, and we intend to further improve this to fully implement the proposed National Curriculum changes. We have computers in all classes. The teachers are all computer literate and preparing for the NGFL initiative. English and maths are taught through Literacy and Numeracy times. The rest of the curriculum is planned through termly themes. All teacher hold curriculum responsibilities in addition to their class teaching commitments. Teachers also run extra curricular activities. We are a hard working, supportive, friendly team that places a great deal of emphasis on developing good relationships across the whole school community and we have a Friends of the School organisation. Children from Tregoze move onto secondary school at Greendown Community School, closeby in Grange Park or to Bradon Forest School in Purton. TREGOZE PRIMARY SCHOOL
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