Aiming to strengthen existing relationships and establish new links and associations, the first city to be visited was Beijing (population approx 15 million) where they held useful meetings with the British Council and several educational agents as well as taking the opportunity to meet Roger and Jenny Wu, parents of past pupil Yanan, who live in the nearby city of Tianjin.

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Since October 2007, the Shropshire Waste Partnership has been responsible for the waste and recycling collection services in and around Oswestry and throughout Shropshire.

For details of revised collection services over the 2008 holiday period, click here. Shropshire Waste Partnership also offer helpful advice about how to recycle the extra waste that you may generate over the Christmas period - click here.

There will be coffee and mince pies served after the service in the Bellan House dining hall. We would love to see you all there, before taking your children home for the Christmas holidays.
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The PA have once again very kindly arranged for a children's entertainer to come along this morning to perform a magic show followed by Punch and Judy.

The children will have Christmas lunch in the dining room before we have a special visit from Father Christmas who will meet all the children.

We will have a non uniform day for this occasion.
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Master of Ceremonies for the evening was Dikko Lawal from Year 13 who introduced the evening, and the guest speaker was Nigel Keighley who is retiring this summer after many years at the school including 8 as House Master of School House. Mr Keighley entertained the group with several amusing true anecdotes about this time.

The boarders' response was given by Chelsea Bentley from Year 12.

The evening was a thoroughly enjoyable end to the Michaelmas Term.

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Thanks to class teacher Mrs Green, Nick was taken up into the skies above Oswestry from the Maes-y-llan this afternoon in a hot air balloon, waved off by the youngsters.

Nick has really enjoyed his year out, arriving here last January from St Paul's Collegiate School, Hamilton, New Zealand. Returning to New Zealand next Friday, Nick has now determined that he will become a primary school teacher - the Bellan House pupils have not put him off!
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Well done to everyone who entered their designs for The Advertizer Christmas Card Competition.

It was incredibly hard to choose a winner as all of the entries were fantastic and all very different.

The winning entry that we sent to The Advertizer was Max Bowker's. Keep an eye out in the next 2 editions of The Advertizer to see Max's design!

by David and Jane Thomas

Oswestry School Chapel, 7.00pm
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Our Christmas Shop will be open on the 9th December.

For the uninitiated, the shop involves parents donating items to the PA in the weeks before which are priced up and then on the shop day the children come and buy their gifts (at a very reasonable price) which the PA then wrap and label.

Thanks to Edward Ellis-Cooper (Year 7) who sent in a picture of himself with his dad after the race.

"We are very pleased with the renovations," said housemaster Mr Arnott. "We have been able to provide the boys with a home-from-home atmosphere, where they can work in comfort, follow their own leisure interests and relax as well as getting some sleep."

The improvements, which were completed in about 10 weeks of work time by school maintenance staff and external builders, have been so successful that work has now started on the Powis dormitory, to bring it up to the same excellent standards.