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Pupils cut a dash - Evening Telegraph, July 9th 1984
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More than 200 pupils made a dash for the line during sports events at their school field yesterday.
Every child at Rushden’s Denfield Park Junior School took part in at least one event during the inter house contests.
The 36 races included flat, sack, skipping and obstacle dashes as well as relays.
The school’s four houses, Scott, Rhodes, Cook and Drake competed for the highest number of points.
Chairman of East Northants Council, Councillor Clive Wood, presented the Denton Cup to the top house Rhodes with 166 points. The Leigh Cup for the runner-up went to Cook House with 155 points.
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Elizabeth Whitney takes part in the high jump
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Pupils Stage Night of Music – Evening Telegraph, July 13 1984
Seventy pupils at Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, treated their families and friends to an evening of music and song.
Pop, the classics, folk and Negro spirituals were all touched upon during the show, enjoyed by an audience of more than 150.
Highlight was the pop cantata Adam in Eden – which told the story of the first couple through songs, featuring Robert Till as Adam and Teresa Allan as Eve. It was narrated by Clare Ely.
Among the musical items were a violin work by Holly Peace, cello piece by Ben Till and the combined voices of the school’s choirs. The Denfield Park recorder group also played the Simple Samba, by Brian Bonsor, the piece with which it clinched a top prize at the Oundle Music Festival.
At the end of the evening parent Alison Broom was presented with a plant in recognition of her help on the piano at this and previous concerts over the past five years.
She is due to begin teacher training shortly and will have to give up playing regularly for the school.
| Pupils store of gifts - Evening Telegraph , October 18th 1984 |
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Food from the supermarket shelf was the theme for Denfield Park Junior School’s annual harvest service at Rushden yesterday.
The children went shopping in the school hall, selecting items such as wine, tea, rice and apples from the shelves. All the goods had been donated by parents. Our picture shows Lisa Taylor and Damien Smith as tea bags, Gary Lee as a chef and store manager Scott Read, taking part in a play for the harvest festival.
The school association arranged the groceries in baskets ready for delivery to the town’s elderly. Deputy head teacher Ian Beaver organised the service. Baptist minister the Rev. Alan Taplin gave a short talk using the shopping basket theme.
More than 200 children were present and about 60 parents, along with school governors and the chairman of East Northants Council, Clive Wood.
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| Money to cores - Evening Telegraph, December 12th 1984 |
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These youngsters discover that bobbing for apples is a fun way of raising cash for the Ethiopian appeal.
Pupils from Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, have raised more than £400 from fundraising during their breaks and weekend sales outside their homes.
The apple-bobbers are (from left) Amanda Cosler, 9, Victoria Papworth, 8, Kelly Bowyer, 9, and Sherralyn Redwood, 8.
Other competitions have included guessing the names of soft toys, collecting pegs from a line and bingo sessions. Pupils have also held an auction and sold homemade cakes.
Headmaster Bob Whitworth said: “The money has been raised completely in the children’s own free time”.
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Cash for Famine Victims
Pupils at Denfield Park School, Rushden, have been setting up stalls outside their homes to raise cash for the Ethiopia appeal.
Lisette Lynne, of Higham Road, Rushden, and her schoolfriends Louise Robinson and Hannah Abbott, together with Laura Robinson of Hayway Infants School, raised £60.
A sale outside Daniel Hardy’s house ay Hayway, Rushden, raised £52.30.
Period Pupils - Evening Telegraph, Feb 14th 1985
Schoolchildren from the county have stamped their mark on this year’s show.
In the schools exhibition, youngsters from Earls Barton Junior School have put together a display on canals.
The pupils, aged 9-11, painted pictures, made a model of a canal boat and produced a text to go with their display.
Denfield Park Junior School in Rushden took as its theme for the exhibition Victorian Britain.
Pictures of the youngsters in Victorian dress and surroundings highlighted models, drawings and the text which pupils produced.
| History in Action - Evening Telegraph, Feb 14th 1985 |
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Youngsters were treated to a fashion parade – Victorian style – at Denfield Park Junior School in Rushden.
The collection of copies of clothes worn by their great-great grannies was displayed by Mrs. Win Willmott and Mrs. Beryl Gittins, who run a fancy dress hire service.
Third and fourth year pupils are studying various aspects of the Victorian era including health, welfare, home, school and industry as well as art and leisure pursuits.
Deputy head, Mr. Ian Beaver, said: “The children had an opportunity of studying the clothes close at hand, and Winbers – who gave the display free of charge – have allowed us to keep them for a couple of days so the children can study and sketch them.”
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Pictured parading some of the costumes are from L to R: Vanessa Bromham, 8, teacher Christine Yeomans and Jaimme Wright, 7.
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Stepping back in Time - Evening Telegraph,
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Youngsters are turning the clock back to Victorian times for their production of Oliver tonight.
Pupils of Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, are setting up a special exhibition of their work completed during a recent study of the period. They are also recreating a typical street scene and adding a collection of memorabilia to the display.
Parents and friends will have a chance to view the exhibition during a break in the show.
The show involves about 60 children including a choir. Parents, friends and school staff have made costumes of the period. Musical director is Chris Yeomans and producer Susan Wake.
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Benjamin Till as Oliver
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Junior Survivors - Evening Telegraph, July 10th 1985
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Youngsters at Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, are following the lead of William the Conqueror – and helping to produce a new version of the Domesday Book.
Twenty of the school’s 10 and 11-year-olds have been carrying out interviews and research for the product run by the BBC to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the original survey of England.
The school is one of about 10,000 groups taking part and pupils researched an area four kilometers by three kilometers, stretching from the Cromwell Road end of Rushden to Manor Farm, Bedford Road, the town’s water tower, and Newton Bromswold.Youngsters at Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, are following the lead of William the Conqueror – and helping to produce a new version of the Domesday Book.
Twenty of the school’s 10 and 11-year-olds have been carrying out interviews and research for the product run by the BBC to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the original survey of England.
Youngsters have interviewed more than 50 residents and the information gathered will go on video disc.
Deputy head, Ian Beaver, has collated the survey work. Headmaster, Bob Whitworth, said: “We are very grateful to parents who have helped in accompanying the children”.
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Data researchers, from left, Caroline West, Alan Wright and Julian Smith.
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Money raised for Dr Barnado's
Dr Barnardo's helpers organised their annual coffee morning and box opening ceremony at St Mary's Church hall Rushden. The event - which included the sale of cakes, bric-a-brac, toys and books - raised a total of £574.45, of which £138.14 came from boxes held by Rushden Denfield Park Junior School pupils.
Top Marks
Eleven year old Daniel Levene of Rushden is one of five county youngsters to be awarded a scholarship to Kimbolton School in Cambridgeshire this year.
Daniel, of Queen Street, is currently a pupil at Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden.
The scholarship entitles him to a reduction of one third in tuition fees.
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Down on the farm - Evening Telegraph, October 21st 1985
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Pupils L-R: Vanessa Bromham 8, Steven Wood 10,Claire Eaves 10,
Miranda Tye 9, Daniel Levine11, and Jennifer Allen 7.
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Youngsters used their ingenuity when teachers asked them to build a model tractor at home for their school’s harvest festival display.
More than 100 little vehicles – made from liquorice allsorts, cake, balloons and drinking straws, as well as more conventional materials – were brought into Denfield Park Junior School, at Rushden.
Teacher Ken Sharman, organised the harvest festival, which was attended by parents and residents of a newly built old people’s home nearby.
He said: “The children were simply asked to build a model tractor. The response was fantastic. They certainly used their imagination for some of the models!”.
A competition for the Hadley Trophy for the house with the most models was won by Drake House.
Pupils donated harvest produce and conducted their own service with two Archers-style characters as narrators, introducing items by six of the school’s classes.
During the afternoon the gifts were distributed to various elderly people living in the area by older pupils.
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Memories of a school holiday earlier this year flooded back for pupils of Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, as they staged an exhibition of their product work.
All 45 fourth-year pupils who went on the school holiday to the Isle of Wight contributed to the display, which was open to their parents, and also the parents of third-year pupils who may make a similar trip next year.
The party was led by Mr. Ian Beaver, his wife Pauline, Mr. Ken Sharman, Mr. George Grey and Mrs. Irene Parker. Slides taken during the trip were shown.
Project work on visits to HMS Victory and the submarine Alliance at Portsmouth, and a various walks and museum visits were displayed, together with models and fossils collected during a study of the island’s geology.
Mr. Beaver said: “The work was quite outstanding and every child contributed to the exhibition. One of the most popular visits was to a doll museum and the pupils have also made their own display of dolls and written a brief history of them”.
Pictured in a scene from the show are (from left): Lisette Lyne, 10, Hannah Abbott, 11, Angela Ghanie, 10, William Tuffnil, 11, Eloise Parker, 10, and (front) Sharon Norris, 11.
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Pictured in a scene from the show are (from left):
Lisette Lyne 10, Hannah Abbott 11, Angela Ghanie 10, William
Tuffnil 11, Eloise Parker 10, and (front) Sharon Norris 11.
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| Blinking Great - Evening Telegraph, December 15,1986. |
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Ashley Dowsett,10, makes a spectacular entrance as a shortsighted doctor in a Christmas sketch. All aspects of Christmas, from Scrooge to Good King Wenceslas were covered in Denfield Park School Rushden's festival concert.
Classes chose a theme and produced a sketch or musical number to perform for friends, parents and governors.
On the programme was A Dream of Toyland, Mummers' Play, The 10 days of Christmas - the schools own version of the traditional song musical items from the hit show Cats and the Denfield Park All Stars concert party singing wartime songs.
Headmaster Bob Whitworth, said all 160 pupils were involved in some way and it had proved a hit with audiences.
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Festival Concert
About a 100 members of Rushden Denfield Park Junior School Association visited a neighbouring home for the elderly in Victoria Road for carol singing.
And further Christmas entertainment was provided in a separate visit to the home by the school choir and recorder group.
School staff and pupils also joined forces to stage their own celebration of this Christmas concert. Songs and carols were performed by the school choir, and teachers entertained pupils with readings and musical items.
| Fun for funraisers - Evening Telegraph,January 1987 |
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Apple bobbing, penalty kicking and a football match were among the activities which helped the children of Rushden's Denfield Park junior school raise £210 for the NSPCC.
Now, a cheque for the cash has been handed over to the society,s regional organiser , Mr Tony Giaffreda, by the school,s oldest boy,Richard Webster 11, and the youngest girl, Lisa Hubbard 7
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Head teacher Bob Whitworth said "Children from each class thought up their own raising ideas and then carried them out during morning breaks before Christmas.We raise money every year for different charities and this year it was for the NSPCC.I think that the fact the money was for other children added extra impetus to their efforts this time".
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| HANDOVER...MR Giaffreda receives the cheque from pupils |
Grand crowd!
Rushden’s Denfield Park Junior School attracted 1,000 people to its 10th birthday celebrations when a fete was staged in the grounds.
Headmaster Bob Whitworth took part in a hair-colouring demonstration when his locks were tinged green and orange.
There was a host of side-shows and stalls – and the event netted about £1,000 for school funds.
| Secrets of an author - Evening Telegraph, October 10, 1987 |
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Award-winning children’s author Nigel Gray visited youngsters at Rushden Denfield Park Junior School to share the magic of story-telling.
The visit was organised as part of the school’s contribution to National Children’s Book Week and Mr Gray joined a class of nine and 10-year-old pupils to read excerpts from his books and discuss the tricks of the trade as an author.
Mr Gray read from his two latest books The Garden Dragon and Lovely Lily and The One and Only Robin Hood and told the children about his work in general as an author.
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Model service
Harvest produce fired the imagination of young model builders at Rushden Denfield Park Junior School.
Pupils and their families were busy at home before the school’s harvest service making their own creations from fruit and vegetables, and the models were included in the seasonal display for the service.
Rushden St Peter’s Church worker Andy Jowitt was guest speaker at the service, which was also attended by parents.
Many of the harvest gifts were taken to elderly and sick neighbours and friends by the youngsters themselves.
Remaining gifts were distributed to elderly people living near the school by fourth year pupils.
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Enterprising Rushden youngsters have been using their school break times to raise cash for the Northampton General Hospital CATscan Appeal.
Pupils of Denfield Park Junior School are setting up their stalls and organising various games until the end of term and so far have raised over £100.
Jennifer Behan and Chris Martin are pictured buying Christmas cards from Naomi Abbott and Kelly Ghanie.
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| Evening Telegraph - October 30, 1987 |
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Harvest produce fired the imagination of young model builders at Rushden Denfield Park Junior School.
Pupils and their families were busy at home before the school’s harvest service making models from fruit and vegetables which were then displayed. Youngsters took many of the harvest gifts to elderly and sick neighbours and friends.
In the picture is 10-year-old Teresa Fairweather with seven carrots modelled on her teachers.
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