| Space school, Leader, March 31,1988 |
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Trainee space cadets prepared for their first launch at the Denfield Park Primary last week when the Rushden school became a space centre for the day.
As young Rushdennaut Neil Connolly made sure his mission to outer space went off without a hitch when Mark Clugston helped him on with his oxygen bottles.
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Drake’s progress, July 13, 1988
All 160 youngsters at Rushden Denfield Park Junior School had a chance to show their skills on the sportsfield.
The afternoon ended with the finals of the flat races and relays and the house trophies were presented by two teachers who will be leaving at the end of term to take up other appointments – Patience Brown and Jacqui Wicks.
House cup winner were Drake with 332 points, 2 Cook with 307 points, 3 Rhodes 236, and 4 Scott 221.
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Pupils’ busy time, December 28, 1988
About 100 members of Rushden Denfield Park Junior School Association, including parents, teachers and children, went carol singing at homes for the elderly in the town’s Victoria Road and Rectory Road.
All pupils at the school also took part in a Celebration of Christmas at Rushden St Peter’s Church, Midland Road. The programme included plays and readings, together with items by the school choir and orchestra.
More than 300 parents, friends and governors attended and a retiring collection was made for the Mid‑Counties Autistic Society and the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
The pupils’ celebrations ended with a Christmas party hat parade in school.
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Cakes, plants and bric-a-brac were snapped up by a stream of buyers at a coffee morning and sale organised by the Denfield Park School Association at St Mary’s Church Hall, Rushden. The sale raised £70 for school funds.
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| Fun Boosts Funds - Evening Telegraph February 1,1989 |
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Inventive pupils at Rushden’s Denfield Park Junior school dreamed up their own games and competitions to raise cash for autistic children. Yesterday the school’s two oldest pupils 11-year-olds Laura Robinson and Peter Hinde handed a cheque for £175 to Mid Counties Autistic Society chairman Marguerita Hinde.
Headmaster Bob Whitworth said: “Different classes in the school thought up all sorts of games and competitions for the others to take part in during their morning break time.
“The children worked hard and enjoyed raising the money. We have another cheque for the same amount we will be presenting to the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the future.”
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Healthy pupils full of beans - Evening Telegraph, February 2, 1989
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Howdy partners. It's time to mosey on down to the school canteen for a Dan Diego sausage, New Jersey jacket and Boston beans . . .
Youngsters at Rushden's Denfield Park Junior School entered the spirit of things when the school meals service organised a marketing campaign to promote health eating.
And when it came to the American-style menu pupils were invited to dress up in style - although headmaster Bob Whitworth insisted they left their six-shooters at home.
The promotion is part of a nationwide FEAST - Fun Eating At School Today - campaign aimed at encouraging youngsters to adopt a well balanced diet.
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Starring Role . . . not let their enthusiasm flag during the day of eating American-style
are, from the left, Bobby Nickerson, Ewan Peace, David Sherwood, Andrew Nield,
Sophie Ablett and Louise Ablett. Picture by Kit Mallin.
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Wellingborough & Rushden Post
Comic Relief 1989 |
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Evening was back-to-front for seven pupils at Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, when they wore clothes the wrong way round for the day.
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| Post Date - Pupils in the News |
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Fourth year pupils from Wellingborough’s [sic] Denfield Park Junior School had an insight into the newspaper world last Friday, courtesy of Post Newspapers.
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Stacey Burton and Karen Ghanie, painted up for Red Nose Day, take a look at the Post production room and the work of shift supervisor Ian Galpin.
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The visit to our Northampton headquarters in Derngate followed a letter to the Wellingborough & Rushden Post from 10-year-old Stacey Burton who wanted ideas on how to set up a newspaper for the school’s pupils.
The Post provided a background look to the production of our weekly newspapers.
Pupils, along with teacher Ken Sharman and Post personnel manager Helena Wood, toured the editorial and advertising departments, and then went into the studio where the pages are laid out, pasted up and made ready for printing.
Reporter Lorna Maybery gave a talk on the thrills of being a journalist, and a representative from the advertisement department gave the young initiates a taste of selling.
The Post also produced the banner heading, designed and chosen by the children for the school paper which is entitled Kiddies Blah after the Beano comic.
Ken Sharman said of the visit: “I must praise the Post for putting together the best school visit I’ve ever been on.
“We had no idea how a newspaper is put together and the kids were especially interested in the computerisation. It gave us plenty of ideas for the school paper. |
So glad you’re back!
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Welcome . . . Matthew Peck surrounded by his school friends
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Coma schoolboy Matthew Peck is now on the road to recovery thanks to the encouragement of classmates at his Rushden school. The eight-year-old, of Newton Road, was in a coma at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford for several days after a road accident while on his bike.
Fellow pupils at Denfield Park Junior School had heard of people coming round after hearing tapes of friends and decided to help.
As well as recording get well messages teachers read some of Matthew’s favourite stories.
Head teacher Bob Whitworth said: “Matthew came out of his coma before the tape was finished and it was played to him at Kettering General Hospital.”
His mum Carole said: “Matthew was really cheered up by the tape. He had been in a coma for several days with head injuries, and he is still seeing the doctors because of his broken leg.”
Matthew is using a wheelchair until his leg heals but he is recovering well.
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Fishy meeting
A beetle drive was enjoyed by more than 100 children and their parents from Rushden Park Junior School, organised by the School Association and including a fish and chip supper and a raffle for prizes donated by local shopkeepers. A total of £300 was raised for school equipment. |
Pupils’ cash
Pupils of Rushden Denfield Park Junior School raised £10 selling conkers and cards depicting characters from TV’s Neighbours soap opera. They gave the cash to the old people’s home in nearby Victoria Road.
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Joanna Jones has been crowned Rushden Carnival Princess for 1989. Denfield School pupil Joanna, aged 10, of Gloucester Crescent, will lead the summer carnival, planned for Saturday, June 24, along with her deputy Kelly Ainge, 10, of Balmoral Avenue, who also attends Denfield School.
Judges Richard and Jane Jackson from Rushden Round Table chose the girls from a line‑up of 10 who attended a special selection evening held in Moor Road Youth Club.
Joanna and Kelly will take over their crowns from last year’s winners Lucy Percival and Kerry Barnes.
Competition organiser Marian Pinnell said: “It was a great night, everyone had a really good time.
“We are holding the judging for the carnival queen on Friday, March 31, at St Peter’s Social Club and we are very keen to get more entrants for that. I would like to see all the carnival princesses of six, seven and eight years ago come forward and put their names down.”
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Sport's revels
Evening Telegraph, July 14,1989 |
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Tarin Colen throws a welly at Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden, where pupils of Drake House notched up 391 points ahead of Cook with 385, Rhodes with 368 and Scott 286.
The awards were presented by teacher Ken Sharman who is to leave the school at the end of term for a deputy head’s post in Wellingborough.
Headmaster Bob Whitworth said: “This was one of our most successful sports days to date.”
Apart from competing in the traditional flat races and relays the youngsters were divided into groups to move round the field and take part in a number of trials of skill.
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Jack’s stroke of genius
Evening Telegraph, September 28,1989 |
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Fine Art . . . Jack presents his pictures to pupils (from left) John Brown, Lee Williams, Trina Carr and Jason Walker.
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Youngsters at a Rushden school have been framed – by a kindly neighbour who painted them as he watched their play from his back garden.
Pensioner Jack Pearce, of Denton Close, has now presented two of his oil paintings of the children at play to Denfield Park Junior School.
Head teacher, Bob Whitworth, said: “Mr Pearce said he had found the children so friendly and well behaved he wanted to give his paintings to the school. And for their part they thought it was smashing he should give them away after he had taken the time to work on them.
“They will be framed and will hang in the school where pupils can enjoy them. One will be in the entrance hall.”
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Harvest share
More than 100 baskets of produce were distributed by children at Rushden Denfield Park Junior School after their annual harvest service with the theme of giving and sharing. The school choir sang a harvest song and one of the parents, the Rev Martin Clacker, gave a talk.
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Here’s consultant Dr Louise Sheppard faced with a difficult poser from youngsters at Rushden Denfield Park Junior School when she visited them to talk about CAT scanners.
Dr Sheppard explained the uses of the machines at a school assembly and afterwards tried her hand at various games and competitions organised by the pupils to raise money for the Kettering CAT Scanner.
Dr Sheppard is pictured puzzling over the contest to guess the number of jelly beans in a bottle with pupils Jonathan Smith, Richard Millership, and Mathew Abbott.
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Ceremony was a memorable day
Evening Telegraph, November 30, 1989 |
Youngsters from a Rushden primary school will have special reason to remember the centenary of the county council.
One pupil from each form at Denfield Park School lent a hand when county councillor and chairman of governors Maye Dicks planted a commemorative tree.
Mrs Dicks was chosen because she has been a governor of the school since it first opened in 1977.
Headteacher Bob Whitworth said: “When this school was built the architects took care to make sure not a single tree was destroyed.
“We are very conscious of our environment and we like to commemorate special occasions by planning another tree. This time it was a Norwegian maple. The tree planted when the school first opened is still flourishing.” |
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SPADE WORK...Headmaster Bob Whitworth and pupils watch as Maye Dicks plants the tree
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Dozens of smiling children showed off colourful waistcoats in a Christmas parade at Denfield Park Junior School Rushden.
As part of a special yuletide project the 170 children had been asked by their teachers to make and brightly decorate waistcoats.
Each class showed off their handiwork to the rest of the school.
Pageant organiser headteacher Bob Whitworth said they asked the children to decorate or make something every year.
“The children have a great time and there are dozens of ideas and patterns used”
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back row, from left,
John Brown, Peter Dennis,
Richard Millership;
front, Emily Gee, Vicki Wilson,
Alan Parker.
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Pupils’ charity lessons
Pupils at Rushden Denfield Park Junior School devoted their mid-morning breaks to various money raising activities and now plan to give the cash to the appeal.
The youngsters arranged novelty games and parents donated cakes for sale and a local shopkeeper gave a jar of sweets.
The school choir entertained elderly people in the area with carol singing led by Clare Bunker, and took part in a candlelit evening for parents and friends. Seasonal food was served by the school association committee.
Green grants
Two local schools are going green with the aid of grants from the Yorkshire Bank.
Denfield Park Junior School, Rushden and Warwick Primary School, Wellingborough, have both received grants of £100 through the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers to help them in developing conservation and wildlife.
The scheme which is run by the Yorkshire Bank has been going for six years and the money can be used to build ponds, plant trees, create habitats for birds, insects and other animals, or for planning wild flower meadows.
Festive coats
Youngsters at Rushden’s Denfield Park Junior School had an enterprising Christmas by designing their own waistcoats.
More than 170 children took part in the project and organiser and head teacher Bob Whitworth said: “The children have had a great time and there were dozens of original ideas and patterns used.”
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