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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 [...]

You’ve Been Framed

During 2009, the Life Libraries ‘Connect and Learn’ project at Forum Library trained 230 new customers from the Wythenshawe area in basic computing skills. Fifty customers also accessed the MAES basic computer courses also held in the library.
As part of the Family Learning Festival during October – Forum Library’s ICT Facilitators, Jane and Oliver, held [...]

Town Centre Masterplan

People are being given the opportunity to learn more about the vision for Wythenshawe town centre.
Since the Wythenshawe Town Centre Masterplan was approved by Manchester City Council in 2006 there has been considerable progress.
The masterplan was revised and updated last year to enable the town centre to gain the maximum  benefit from new opportunities such [...]