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Oake and Bradford school plans name change

1:29pm Wednesday 24th February 2010


PARENTS at Oake and Bradford primary, which is due to welcome pupils from the soon-to-close Nynehead Primary School this September, have complained about the school’s proposed new name - Trinity Vale.

‘Trinity’ refers to the three settlements of Oake, Bradford and Nynehead while ‘Vale’ refers to the Vale of Taunton.

What you think of the proposed name? – Have your say in the comment box below.


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DonSeer, Taunton says...
4:59pm Wed 24 Feb 10

Talk about telling half a story..

Whats their problem with the new name?

Typical fear-of-change because it's different.

Something more sensible like that there is the COE Trinity Primary School in the centre of Taunton with a very similar name?

or perhaps the religious connotation?

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Dr Dave, says...
8:59pm Wed 24 Feb 10

I don't think "Trinity" is the right word for the school.

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DonSeer, Taunton says...
10:09pm Wed 24 Feb 10

Because?...

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gilesy25, taunton says...
11:04pm Wed 24 Feb 10

simple, take the three names (oake, nynehead and bradford) and find an anagram for the new school name. Heres one I found earlier - "A Barehanded Donkey Fro" primary school...... Is original and slips straight off the tongue!

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DonSeer, Taunton says...
8:15am Thu 25 Feb 10

haha.. or they could just take the initials.... Nynehead, Oake and Bradford would make...?

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Bob Cockshaw, taunton says...
6:05pm Thu 25 Feb 10

DonSeer, Very intriguing...how do you know this is only half a story? Can you divulge the other half of it please ?

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tauntone, Taunton says...
6:52pm Thu 25 Feb 10

How about The three villages school or Nineoak and Bradford school?.

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DonSeer, Taunton says...
9:33am Fri 26 Feb 10

Bob Cockshaw > what i meant by that is that the gazette has reported the (shades of little britain) "don't like it" angle, but not included or asked for any reason behind the opposition to the name change.

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Outraged of Oake, Oake says...
3:46pm Sat 27 Feb 10

You want a reason. I cannot speak for anyone else, nor would I, but in my case I believe 'Trinity' has religious conotations, which it has not. If they wanted a name that included all villages why not Bradford on Tone Primary School - we are after all in the Bradford on Tone Ward?

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jess the cat, taunton says...
3:46pm Sun 28 Feb 10

just call it oake primary school

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