Cheshire

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STEM under the Sky

Cheadle Hulme School takes part in Bluedot festival. Bluedot is the annual music, science and culture festival held at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre in Macclesfield. This year three students from the independent Cheadle Hulme School, are tasked with sharing their love of all things science and technology with youngsters attending the festival.

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Stockport Grammar Junior School Head Receives Queen’s Honour for Charity Work

The Headmaster of Stockport Grammar Junior School, Mr Tim Wheeler, has been awarded an MBE for services to charity and to education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
In addition to his work at SGJS, Mr Wheeler has been the Chair of the Little Princess Trust, since 2011. The charity provides real hair wigs to children and young people with hair loss, and funds vital research into childhood cancer.

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Alderley Edge Festival – 2019

For more than a hundred years Alderley Edge Festival has been a delightful event for people in Cheshire. As Maria Rushton, one of the organises of the Festival-2019 said, “There’s an element of competition but this is much more about bringing people together to share their enjoyment of performing.” A lot of local schools embraced an opportunity to join the ‘wonderful culture of music, speech and drama’ and some of the children won top awards during the festival.

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Making Memories

With our increasingly busy and fast paced lives it can be hard to fit in and organize quality time with family and friends. Juggling work, meal times, after school activities and running the home, we are often exhausted both mentally and physically so coming up with inspiration for things to do can often be a challenge.
Big Top Parties offers fun filled, family friendly, traditional children’s parties for kids of all ages. It helps parents to spend stress free quality time, enjoy the party and create an unforgettable experience for children, their friends and family.

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Haunted Halloween 2018

That scary, spooky, ghouly, ghostly, creepy crawly thing is fast approaching again! Halloween is just round the corner. Whether you want to spend it weaving cobwebs at Dunham Massey or carving pumpkins at Stockley Farm, whether you are interested in eerie tours of a medieval building in Tatton Park or prefer to ride a ghost train on the East Lancashire railway, you are on the right track. You can find a lot of information here to keep you going not only through Halloween but also for the half-term. Manchester and Cheshire are full of things to do this Autumn.

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