Prestwich Library in partnership with UNISON are holding a “Living Library” event where, instead of checking out a normal book, people will be able to “borrow” a person who has their own unique story to tell. The Living Library event takes place at Prestwich Library on Thursday 19 November 2009 from 2pm to 6pm, and […]

Next week (9-13 November) is apparently School Dinners week. Local pupils have been voting alongside children from the rest of the country for their favorite school meal. According to the Council’s press release the Mayor of Bury, Councillor Sheila Magnall will be joining children at Mersey Drive primary for a meal of cheese and onion […]

Last night was the regular meeting of the Governors of St Margaret’s CoE Primary school on Heywood Road. St Margaret’s is one of the two schools in our area that I have the honour of serving as a Governor. There were a number of issues that came up, including: – last years results were reported […]

Following a meeting on Friday 3 rd July 2009 Prestwich Arts College will now be open to all students at 10.15am on Tuesday 7th July 2009 ,contrary to the letter sent from the head teacher to parents and carers of students at the school  on 3rd July.

Parents and the wider community are invited to attend an information day at Heaton Park Primary School on July 13. The school, on Cuckoo Lane, Whitefield, has been identified as requiring significant modernisation, and a children’s centre. It is planned to integrate the children’s centre on the school site. Proposed drawings will be on display […]

Planners at Bury Council have given approval for state of the art new facilities at Prestwich Arts College, marking the end of a long campaign for improvements to the successful local school. The Council’s Planning Control Committee voted on Tuesday 16th June to grant planning permission for a new dining room and arts auditorium for […]

School pupils are to be rewarded for designing Bury libraries’ new junior membership card. The library service had asked all schools in the borough to put forward designs, and the winners were Isaac Mason (aged 11) from St Stephen’s Primary School and Brenda Achieng (aged 13) from Prestwich Arts College. There are two new junior […]

Readers can pick up a bargain when Prestwich Library holds a sale of withdrawn items on June 13 and 14. A large number of adult non-fiction books are up for grabs, along with Jewish non-fiction, junior fiction books and a selection of DVDs. The library is open from 9am to 1pm on Saturday June 13, […]

Last night was the regular termly meeting of the Governors of St Margaret’s Primary School on Heywood Road. This is one of the two local schools where I serve as a Governor. Here are the main issues from the evening: Buildings The Buildings Sub-Committee (of which I’m a member) met up before the main meeting […]

  On Wednesday I met with the Council’s Traffic Management Road Safety Officer who covers Prestwich to look at the “Chicane” on the run-up to Parrenthorn and St Margaret’s School on Heywood Road. The scheme was put in place around two years ago to enable the stretch of road outside the schools to be 20mph. […]