King of the Swingers
St Andrew’s enjoyed a double whammy with the The Mayor, Cllr Mike Thompson, last week when he visited the school for two events.
The first event was very kindly hosted by Dave Williams, a parent at the school and an aficionado of radio amateur and electronic enthusiasts from the Southdown Amateur Radio Society, Eastbourne, along with Dr John Craig who was the driving force behind the original St Andrew’s amateur radio club. The children were shown the history of amateur radio and its practical application as a fascinating and interesting hobby today. They took part in an ‘informal foxhunt’ which is a game of hide and seek where the seeker uses radios and aerials to track down a transmitter, tried their hand at Morse code and were assigned, by Ofcom, a unique ‘special event call sign’ of GB2SAM (St Andrews Meads), which was used by the children to speak to people from all over the world.
The Mayor moved from this event to officially open our new climbing equipment. The equipment was funded by the Friends of St Andrew’s (the parent body of the school) and the OA Society Charitable Trust fund. After cutting the ribbon, Cllr Thompson decided to join the children on the new equipment.
