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Following public consultation, the traffic safety scheme outside of Prestwich Arts College is to go ahead. The scheme provides for a short stretch of 20mph ourside the school, including a “raised table”. More information here

Bury Council is consulting on a proposed 20mph zone on the stretch of Heys Road as it passes Prestwich Arts College. Houses fronting on to the scheme will receive a consultation letter (copy here) on 24th July and comments are sought before 14 August 2009. It is hoped that the scheme will come to the [...]

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 [...]

Love over Susan Brown and Diversity - Prestwich is where the real talent is! Families, friends and residents flocked to see the stars of tomorrow, drawn from local primary schools, strut their stuff. The Prestwich Has Got Junior Talent showcase was held in St Mary’s Park as part of the Love Prestwich festival. The winner was Zack Hipps, [...]

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, [...]

A variety and talent show for individuals, pairs and groups no larger than five, attending Prestwich Junior Schools has been organised as part of the Love Prestwich Festival. Prizes include: - £150 Canvass portrait - Family meal at Croma - Music Vouchers for all finalists Auditions are open, so turn up anytime between 3.30 and 5.50 on April 28th at [...]