Browsing all posts in February, 2010.

Every Child Counts

St.Peter’s Catholic Primary School, Newall Green, is at the forefront of a new government initiative, designed to help children overcome difficulties in maths. The programme offers specialist 1:1 tuition where children receive 30 minute, daily lessons, focusing on their counting and mental maths development.
Initial results have been outstanding: in 12 weeks each child made at least [...]

Helping Hands in the Park

A group of Year 11 students from Newall Green High School have been busy helping in the preparations for Spring in Wythenshawe Park.
They planted two large sacks of daffodil bulbs which will soon be brightening up the local environment.
As part of their 2 Year Diploma in Construction, it is hoped that they can help even [...]

Haiti Earthquake Effort

Staff at Parkway Green Housing Trust have helped raise £660 for the Haiti Earthquake appeal.
After seeing news coverage of the disaster, workers at the Wythenshawe based Housing Trust raised the money by holding two dress-down days and encouraging staff to make contributions which would be match funded by the trust.
The money will help rebuild lives [...]

Residential Retreat

A group of Wythenshawe school children enjoyed a three day residential retreat at Savio House in Bollington, Cheshire, where they were able to take time out from their busy lives to reflect upon themselves, their hopes and dreams and their relationships with those around them.
The trip from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School was part-funded by [...]

Hovercraft Challenge

High flying pupils from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Newall Green took part in an Aerospace event which was delivered by the Widening Participation team in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at The University of Manchester.
The “Hovercraft Challenge” event was designed to encourage boys to go into Aerospace/ Engineering as a career. The boys [...]

Take That, You Boxers!

A surprise guest at the thirteenth anniversary reunion of the Jimmy Egan’s Boxing academy at the Britannia Country Hotel in West Didsbury. Steve Egan, who along with his brother Sean, runs the gym which is named after their father is pictured with Jason Orange and Councillors Sandra Bracegirdle and Richard Cowell.
The Egan gym is a [...]

Women in Business Network

Felicity Goodey CBE, businesswoman and former BBC journalist and presenter with a passion for business in the North West and Wythenshawe has agreed to become the patron of ‘Handbags & Briefcases’ - the fledgling Wythenshawe Business Women’s network and support group.
The group formed as a spin-off from women who had attended the successful ‘Women [...]

Lewis or Jensen

Could the future Jenson Button be at Newall Green High School?  Judging by the roaring success of the Formula One Physics activity at the school maybe one of the Year 8 students could be just that!
For two days Philip Rose and his team from SciTech thrilled the students with wonders of Science and how much [...]

Free Computer Lessons For Over 60s

Free computer lessons are being offered to Manchester residents who are over 60, at local libraries across the city.
For complete technophobes or for those simply wanting to brush up on existing skills, anyone over 60 can book up to six one-to-one sessions at their local library learning about things such as email, how to download [...]

Streetlife Football

A free 6-a-side football competition will be held at Manchester Enterprise Academy (formerly parklands High School) from Friday 26th February to Friday 26th march (6pm-8pm) for youngsters aged 10 to 19.
Come on your own, or with a team; access to the Astroturf pitches is via Leybrook Road, Benchill.