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Bader Primary School


Bader Primary School is located on Kintyre Drive in Thornaby, on the site of the former RAF Thornaby airfield. The School was officially opened on the 10th of November 1971, by the First and Second World War fighter pilot, Sir Douglas Bader (1910-1982), after whom the school is named.[1] The school emblem has a Spitfire on it and the motto "Aim Higher". The school has roughly 400 pupils aged 2 to 11. A number of improvements were made to the building during the summer of 2018.

Thornaby Thornaby Aerodrome (1929-1958) Primary School
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Bader Primary School
- Official Website of Bader Primary School.
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- Twitter feed of Bader Primary School
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Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, CO of No. 242 Squadron, seated on his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940
- Photo from the Imperial War Museum, available under the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Image c/o Wikimedia Commons.
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Thornaby school celebrates 40th anniversary
- TeesideLive 14th November, 2011. "AN RAF helicopter swooped from the sky to help a Thornaby school with links to one of the Second World War’s most famous flying aces mark …
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Bader Primary School
- The gov.uk 'Get information about schools' site includes information about each school, its governors, links to Ofsted inspection reports etc.
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Thornaby Aerodrome (1929-1958)
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Thornaby Aerodrome (1929-1958)
- Overview About RAF Thornaby   Royal Air Force Thornaby or more simply RAF Thornaby is a former Royal Air Force Station located at the Teesside town and former Borough of …

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School URN: 143623
Grid ref: NZ4525515713
District: Tees Valley
Post code: TS17 0BY

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