Education

  • Apprentice firefighters return from Nepal

    By on March 28, 2018

    Children’s education in a remote village in Nepal has been changed for generations thanks to a group of Firefighter and Community Safety Apprentices from Cheshire...

  • The National Trust Children’s Book Festival

    By on March 27, 2018

    The National Trust Children’s Book Festival is returning on 23 – 24 June 2018, and this year is hosted by Quarry Bank in Styal, Cheshire....

  • Celebrate spring at Quarry Bank

    By on March 19, 2018

    Spring is bursting into life at Quarry Bank near Wilmslow, filling the gardens and estate with spring flowers and wildlife. Over the school holidays families...

  • Prince’s Trust revamp for local primary school

    By on March 18, 2018

    A primary school has being given a colourful revamp by a group of young people from Macclesfield as part of a Cheshire Fire and Rescue...

  • New chapter for Macclesfield’s past

    By on March 6, 2018

    The latest book authored by respected Macclesfield historian, Dorothy Bentley Smith, is now available for purchase. ‘No Ordinary Surgeon: The Life and Times of William...

  • Macclesfield College Awards

    By on February 27, 2018

    Macclesfield College held its first ever Apprenticeship Awards recently, celebrating the hard work and achievement of apprentices studying with the college’s dedicated Maxim Business Training...

  • Take a look around Buxton & Leek College

    By on February 19, 2018

    Buxton & Leek College is welcoming students to attend a special Open Day on Saturday 3 March from 10am till 1pm, held at both College...

  • College celebrates its Good Ofsted rating

    By on February 13, 2018

    Students and staff at Macclesfield College were joined by local MP, David Rutley, to celebrate progress at the College, and its recent ‘Good’ Ofsted rating....

  • Three year arts investment for Transport Festivals

    By on February 13, 2018

    Sandbach Transport Festival and ‘TrAction’ Crewe will both benefit from a significant financial investment over the next three years, following successful 2017 pilot events to...

  • Contact Young Company ‘Bangs the Drums’ for its anniversary

    By on February 12, 2018

    This March, the award-winning Contact Young Company celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the Representation of the People Act (1918) with She Bangs the Drums....

  • Voice of an angel

    By on February 9, 2018

    Check this out, Fallibroome student, 16 year-old Emily Wilson – sings Angel flying too close to the ground and You make me feel – watch out...

  • Students taste life at Buxton & Leek College

    By on February 8, 2018

    Are you nearing the end of school but can’t make up your mind which course to study at College? Buxton & Leek College has the...

  • Donation helps students build a brighter future

    By on February 8, 2018

    Students attending a construction skills course are building a brighter future, thanks to a donation of bricks and timber. Macclesfield-based not for profit company, Trade...

  • Could you be a firefighter?

    By on February 6, 2018

    Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service is recruiting for on-call firefighters at the following fire stations: Alsager, Audlem, Bollington, Frodsham, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Malpas, Middlewich, Penketh,...

  • ‘Transition’

    By on February 5, 2018

    Exhibition: ‘Transition’ focuses on the artwork of Alice Beech, Nichola Eardley and Puff Williams; all HNC Art & Design Students from Macclesfield College. The exhibition...

  • Jodrell Bank – a World Heritage Site?

    By on February 2, 2018

    Jodrell Bank has been nominated for World Heritage status. The observatory, part of the University of Manchester, is home to the Grade I Listed Lovell...

  • Your health matters

    By on January 29, 2018

    A reminder for those who haven’t yet booked their space that the next Health Matters talk is being held in the lecture theatre at Macclesfield Hospital...

  • WWI Centenary exhibition

    By on January 29, 2018

    Local MP, David Rutley, dropped into a local exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armistice signalling the end of the Great War recently. Aftermath100...

  • Take care with the pancakes!

    By on January 29, 2018

    It’s all about food and cooking this February – not just pancakes on Shrove Tuesday – and firefighters want to make sure that everyone enjoys...

  • Macclesfield Museums – forthcoming events

    By on January 29, 2018

    Above: West Park Museum. Macclesfield Museums have got a range of activities to keep the kids happy over the holidays – February half term, Easter...