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Love Your School: Windmill School, Beaconsfield , Telford.
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03/04/2025
We travel to Telford and Windmill School for our Love Your School feature, and enjoy a lovely bit of pond dipping.
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Right, we're here at Windmill Primary School in Telford. They've got some great facilities
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outdoors including a pond and a nice woodland area that was built some time ago. Let's go
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and have a look at some of the things the kids are getting up to and what they're loving.
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They've got a bridge first of all that looks very fun. The lads are having a good time
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on the swing as well. Is that good for the lad? Yes.
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And here we find headteacher Mark Gibbons who's been here for some time, must feel a
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bit like part of the furniture. Mark, what a wonderful school you've got here at Windmill
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What do you love most first of all? The children. I think I decided when I came here 18 years
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ago that I would stay for as long as I felt useful and purposeful and I think the children
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in Brookside are children that I love working with and so yeah, I've stayed and I'll probably
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end up staying longer as well. So Mark, you've got a lot of other unique things as well like
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three screens in the classrooms. Tell us a bit more about that. We believe in giving
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children the best opportunities so for example we guarantee that every child who comes to
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Windmill will learn to play a violin or a cello. We got a grant which enabled us to
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develop this space. The field that you can see behind the trees there used to come all
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the way through here to the fence line but we used this grant to help us plant trees,
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fence off this area, dig the pond, make the outdoor classroom which is also the hide and
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15 years later it kind of feels like it's always been here. Yeah, the kids are having
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a great time. Do you think there's anything about Windmill that is particularly unique
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or that you're especially proud of in particular? I've got to give great credit to the staff
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team at Windmill. I know every headteacher would probably say the same thing that they've
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got the best staff team but I actually would say that Windmill has got the best staff team.
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They are so dedicated to the children, learning, growing. Our vision is that children will
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grow, so G-R-O-W. They'll become generous, resilient, optimistic and wise and we help
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them to do that. So I'm proud of everyone but particularly proud of the staff for their
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commitment. Absolutely fantastic school. Thanks ever so much for having us. You're welcome.
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Kids are having a great time. Thank you very much. So guys, what a wonderful school you've
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got here at Windmill Primary School and a cool little pond as well. First of all, what
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do you love the most about your school? I just love that the teachers are not strict
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and just let us have a free roam around here. Do you have lots of fun in the pond area?
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Do you learn a lot about the environment and the animals that are in it? Yeah. What about
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yourself, what do you love the most? I love that our teachers make fun lessons and we
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get golden time as well and we also get to come in the wildlife fair as well. Okay. What
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about yourself, is there a particular thing you love the most and you look forward to
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the most when you come to school? The teachers are kind. Ah, the teachers are very kind.
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That's great to hear. Well, it's a fantastic school you've got here. Thanks ever so much
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for showing us around and your wonderful pond. Hello guys, you making some music? What's
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your names? What's your name? Arthur. Yeah, and what's your name? Evan. Go on then Arthur,
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play us a tune. Go on, let's see what you've got. Lovely.
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