Browsing all posts in November, 2009.

The Futures Bright

Wythenshawe Real Lives celebrated its first anniversary with an event at the Concorde Hangar of Manchester Airport where campaign ambassadors toured the iconic passenger airliner.
Wythenshawe: Real Lives campaign launched one year ago to challenge outdated and negative attitudes towards the district in Manchester as well as raising awareness of more than a decade of [...]

Students in the Dragons Den

Students from the Manchester Health Academy successfully pitched their idea for a handbag charm to a select panel of Dragons at an event held at Manchester Airport.
The Airport Community Network invited local schools to participate in an Enterprise competition. The Health Academy were allocated a mentor, Jayne Mehta, who offered business guidance and support to [...]

Outstanding Special School

Piper Hill Specialist Support High School in Newall Green has been named by Ofsted as one of twelve nationally outstanding special schools that really excel at providing for very vulnerable children and young people.
Ofsted’s report ‘Twelve outstanding special schools - Excelling through inclusion’ shows how Piper Hill and the other outstanding special schools deal with [...]

‘Vera’ Opens New Unit

A new £3.4 million unit, which will help scientists and doctors translate pioneering research into benefit for patients with lung diseases, has opened at UHSM’s Wythenshawe Hospital.
Stars from Coronation Street will join patients and staff as Liz Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth in the popular TV soap, officially opened the facility which will serve Greater [...]

Music Sharing

The performance hall at Saint Paul’s Catholic High School resounded to the sounds of local Primary School children along with Year 7 children from Saint Paul’s, older students, Music Service staff and players from the Halle Orchestra all playing music especially created on the day.
These music sharing days, led by Rachel Johnson (Music teacher [...]

All Singing, All Dancing, All Baking

Students at Newall Green High School are always eager to raise money for charity and the annual BBC Children in Need telethon was no exception.
Co-ordinated by the School Council, the whole school took pleasure in the day’s celebrations which this year included a staff karaoke, which caused great excitement among the students.
Governor and staff member [...]

Waxing Lyrical

It was a painful afternoon for five brave male staff members at the Woodhouse Park Lifestyle Centre as they took part in a sponsored leg wax for Children in Need.
Sarah Woolley said, “I was one of the women chosen to carry out the task of waxing and despite my reluctance to inflict pain [...]

Making Way For New Headquarters

Demolition work has begun on the site of the former Willow Park Cedars office on Poundswick Lane to make way for the Housing Trust’s new headquarters, scheduled to open at the end of 2010.
Willow Park staff, board members, local councillors and representatives from Hargreaves Construction, the appointed contractor, assembled at the site [...]

Post Office on the Move

A post office in Northern Moor, which has been closed temporarily for six months, is to reopen at new premises nearby in December.
Sale Circle Post Office was located at 112 Sale Road and now, following the appointment of a new subpostmaster and a period of public consultation, the branch will reopen just 50 yards away, [...]

Icing On The Cake

THE sweet taste of success filled the City of Manchester Stadium where the winner of the Stadium’s Eastlands cake competition was announced.
WFM 97.2 presenter Mike George took the first prize.
Over the past seven months, the Stadium has invited budding chefs from across the city and suburbs to submit their finest cake recipe in a bid [...]