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Choice tweets about Wanstead: Xmas party time
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Wanstead Primary School league tables 2011
Here are the league tables for Wanstead primary schools. The measures are based on attainment in Year Six, and largely refer to the standards that would normally be expected. Â The information is published by the Department for Education, but full statistics and more explanation can be found at the BBC.
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Billboard open to amusing misinterpretation
Hidden depths of Wanstead Library
Hardcore users of Wanstead library might be well aware of this, but it’s worth sharing anyway. Holders of Redbridge Library cards can, with the cunning use of their card number and PIN, get access to a quite amazing array of online reference books through the Redbridge website – including the full Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford Reference Online. This is as well as being able to search the borough’s own library catalogue. Access is available at www.redbridge.gov.uk/libraries.
There’s also access to the Dictionary of National Biography, so there is now no reason not to know that Sir Charles Tilston Bright, responsible for laying the first cable across the Atlantic AND for proposing that units of electrical measurement (eg volt) should be derived from the names of scientists, was born in Wanstead.
Wansteadium hopes, as a result of this posting, for an immediate improvement in the general standard of bus stop small-talk.
Here it is – the Wanstead Gift List Top 12
Thanks for everyone’s nominations for the inaugural Wanstead Gift List, a hunt for decent presents on sale in Wanstead. Through a process of whittling and sifting, the nominations have been reduced to this, the final top 12. Readers of Wansteadium are invited to support the viability of our local community by buying some or all of these items. Or some others. But you get the point.
12. Hot water bottle with knitted cover from Orange Tree
11. Fancy hand cream from Wanstead Pharmacy
10. Turkish Delight gift box in The Larder
9. Vouchers for Angel’s Hair and Nails
8. Pretty jewellery/trinket boxes – The Art Shop
7. Vintage scarves – Coco
6. A Picasso clock – Images in Frames
5. Mini suitcase to put dolls clothes in – Nicole’s
4. Membership of the Drummond lawn tennis club About £100
3. Amber necklace from Keatings
2. Bikes for the children from Bike Trax
1. Squeaky toys for the dog from Heads n Tails
Thanks again to everyone who took part. Next week Wansteadium’s food blogger Suki Orange will be presenting the Wanstead Christmas Food List. Any nominations of fine fare please by e-mail to suki@wansteadium.com