Metlink International 2000

Pinewood School, Bourton, UK

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Dear MetLink Participants
 
My name is Alexander Sweeting I am a pupil at Pinewood School, 
I am going to tell some details about Pinewood.
I am twelve tommorow. This is the school's third year involved with MetLink.
This school is an Independent school which is mixed of 3-13 years. 
In the school there are 250 children. 
 
Our form tutor and teacher is Jim Bischoff. 
The names of the children taking part of this are the following:
Tom Bowlby
Isobel Brown
Jack Clark
Ken Cruickshank
Jessica Dziubinski
Katherine Henham
Tom Hodson-Cottingham
James McGregor
Yasmin Nagati-Gilani
Myself
Joe Taylor
 
The age group of this form is 11-12.
 
Our schools location is (51'34N, 1'40W)7km from east Swindon. 
Just in Oxfordshire. We are 85 km from the South coast and 100m above sea level
 
Our time of readings is 11:10 am and the station, one metre above the ground, 
is beside our games fields in another field.
 
Our instruments are:
	A Stevenson screen
	Min-Max Thermometer (oC)
	Barometer
	Rain Gauge (mm)
	Hygrometer
	Aneometer cups
	Cloud cover chart (a) cloud type(b) cloud cover
 
The weather we expect is little daily rainfall, our average temperature is 
5 degC, frosty nights, cloudy and light winds.
 
I am really looking forward to taking part in this project.
 
Yours Sincerely
 
Alexander Sweeting.