Pupil scoops top prize
A STOCKPORT pupil scooped a top prize in a national competition supported by Solutions SK’s School Meals team. Solutions SK’s School Meals team encouraged pupils from primary schoo...
Kumon celebrates World Book Day
WORLD Book Day is fast approaching and leading education provider Kumon fully supports this global initiative which aims to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and...
Oxbridge hat-trick
KING’S School sixth formers have enjoyed an academic hat trick with three high flyers gaining offers from Oxford and Cambridge universities. All three sixth form students will need...
Wannabe chefs cook up a treat
HOW do you make a teenage boy like broccoli, ‘simple just make him cook it himself,’ says master chef Darren Tinkler. The answer was obvious after the Putting Fun Back into Food ex...
Technology College is given top marks
DELIGHTED staff and students at Reddish Vale Technology College in Stockport are celebrating after being named as one of the most improved schools in Greater Manchester in the late...
Reindeer runners raise Hospice cash
RUDOLPH the Red Nose Reindeer turned charity worker over Christmas as hundreds of children helped the East Cheshire to raise £11,000. In all 11 schools took part in this new East C...
Budding birdwatchers
YEAR 3 Cheadle Hulme School pupils, many of w 0hom attend the School’s Wildlife Club, took part in the world’s biggest Birdwatch, at the start of the month. Schools across the UK h...
Expansion plan for MGS Junior Section
THE Manchester Grammar School Junior Section is set to expand again after what it terms ‘The spectacular success of its new Junior Section.” From September 2011, it will admit boys...
Young dramatists pull the strings...
YOUNG dramatists at Hillcrest Grammar School revived a dying tradition with a celebration of Punch and Judy. Year Seven pupils at the Stockport School staged special shows for pare...
Boys make national finals
KING’S School cross-country runners made the national finals at the first time of asking. The seven-strong junior boys’ team, made up of runners from Years 7 and 8, travelled to Ne...
Youngsters take on language challenge
QUALIFYING for the regional semi-final of the EuroTalk Junior Language Challenge was a nerveracking time for Year 5 and 6 pupils at Stockport Grammar Junior School. Greek in the fi...
Young scholars get Oxford distinctions
A TRIO of young academic achievers from Greenbank Preparatory School have been awarded distinctions by Oxford University. The budding young boffins took part in a national on line ...
Ofsted gives college stamp of approval
OFSTED inspectors have praised Cheadle & Marple Sixth Form College for being “responsive and effective in meeting the needs and interests of learners, driving up overall success ra...
National accolade for Stockport students
STUDENTS from local Kumon after-school maths and English centres have gained national honours. The youngsters each received a place on the Kumon Advanced Student Roll for outstandi...
Charity push at Cheadle Hulme? Take a hike!
ALMOST 200 pupils took part in the annual Cheadle Hulme School Charity Hike to raise funds for local, national and international charities. The impressive £6,000 raised will be spl...
Bramhall students visit battlefields
STUDENTS from Bramhall High School were deeply moved during a recent trip to the battlefields of France and Belgium. A group of 80 students took the thought provoking trip as part ...
Sixth Form geographers head for the hills
AT the end of half term 14 Lower Sixth geographers from Stockport Grammar School headed off to Keswick in the Lake District for two days of AS Level physical Geography fieldwork in...
Pupils become junior crime fighters to help foil b
POLICE in Stockport have recruited pupils from primary schools across the area to join in the fight against crime. More than 20 pupils from St John’s Primary School in Heaton Merse...
A dream for Stockport scholars
SCORES of schoolchildren from Reddish in Stockport took to the stage for an evening of dance, music and drama at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Pupils from eight Reddish prima...
Bouncing Babies
THE babies are beaming in the new Timmy Tiptoes Babies Room at Greenbank Preparatory School’s Day Nursery. As well as building a new administration wing, with state–of–the–art faci...
