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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 [...]

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 showing facilities [...]

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 [...]

Education watchdogs from Ofsted gave the Prestwich college the top possible grade in every category. The college, in Bury New Road, Prestwich, caters for students with a complex range of psychiatric illnesses, some of them in a secure unit. “Cloughside is an outstanding college” said Ofsted. “They care about you here, you are not just a number” [...]

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 membership cards, [...]