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Category: Education

Lego Master Builder teams up with Salford libraries to get kids reading this summer

Salford Community Libraries and Manchester’s LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre have established an innovative partnership to encourage primary school children to read over...

Petition to add driving to the school curriculum

Major motoring organisations and experts are backing a petition urging the Government to include driving on the school curriculum. The petition has been launched in a...

Summer Book Club for families in Little Hulton

Thousands of books will be given out to children in low income families over the summer in a new initiative to promote literacy during the school holidays. Manchester...

Irlam firm donates new roof for Salford nature reserve

Bird-watchers and nature-loving children in Salford will be able to avoid the rain while watching wildlife after a donation by an Irlam company. Karl and Steven Daniels,...

Goodbye Miss Magee: Lewis Street Primary School teacher to retire after 28 years

A much-loved teacher at a primary school in Patricroft, Eccles is to retire after 28 years in the job. Morag Magee joined Lewis Street Primary School in 1987 as a newly...

Lewis finds his confidence with ‘Career Ready’ course at FutureSkills Salford

A Business and Finance student from Salford City College’s FutureSkills has finally found his confidence, and landed his dream job, after completing his two year...

Top marks for primary pupils in Salford

Salford primary schools are celebrating top marks in this year’s Key Stage 2 results. Eighty one per cent of children in Salford are now achieving Level 4 and above in...

Former Salford City Academy students return as a trainee teachers

Less than five years after leaving Salford City Academy, former Head Girl and Head Boy, Jade Wellings and Martin Redgrave are back, only this time as trainee teachers....

11-year-old suspended for taking WW1 gun to Salford primary school

A pupil at Willow Tree Primary School in Salford was suspended after taking a gun to school. The 11-year-old boy brought the weapon to school on Thursday 18 June but the...

Willow Tree Primary School set for new nursery building in bid to expand pupil places

Two new classrooms for nursery-age children are to be opened in a new building at Willow Tree Primary School in Salford. Urban Vision have applied for planning...