All posts tagged "education"

  • Prescot Red Box Project Aims to End ‘Period Poverty’ in Schools

    A Prescot couple are on a mission to end period poverty in local schools. Clare and Karl Duvall have set up a local branch of the Red Box Project, an initiative that places constantly stocked boxes of...

    • Posted September 19, 2018
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  • Knowsley Apprentice Scheme Now Recruiting

    The Knowsley Apprentice programme is once again recruiting, with job and training opportunities for school and college leavers preparing for the workplace this summer. Since 2008, the programme has helped 1,126 young people into apprenticeships with organisations...

    • Posted June 15, 2018
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  • Prescot Town Centre Gets Life-saving Defibrillator

    Defribillators that have the potential to save a life have been installed across in Knowsley, including one in Eccleston Street, Prescot. The device has been placed next to the Watchmaker pub (Wetherspoon’s) in the town centre. If...

    • Posted June 20, 2017
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  • Prescot Festival Ushers in New Generation of Musical Talent

    The Prescot Festival will showcase young, rising musical and artistic talent in June this year. Primary and secondary school children from across the borough of Knowsley will once again perform live in pursuit of the title of...

    • Posted May 9, 2017
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  • Education Judges ‘Blown away’ by Evelyn Primary School

    A Prescot school has scooped a regional award for its pioneering approach to reading and writing. Evelyn Community Primary School won the Innovative and Creative Literacy Award at the North West Educate Awards 2016, held at Liverpool...

    • Posted November 24, 2016
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  • Shakespeare North Confirms Key Appointments in Prescot Theatre Bid

    The Prescot Playhouse is a step closer to construction, following the appointment of architects and engineers to work on the project. Shakespeare North plan to build an educational complex, with a 350-seat Elizabethan cockpit theatre (pictured) at its...

    • Posted November 11, 2016
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  • Thinking about Secondary School Places for 2017?

    Schools in and around Prescot are holding open days for prospective students and their families in the next few weeks. The Prescot School, formerly Knowsley Park Centre for Learning until it was taken over as an academy...

    • Posted September 15, 2016
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  • St Edmund Arrowsmith Head Teacher Martyn Campbell Has Died

    Staff, students and governors at St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Centre for Learning in Whiston are today coming to terms with the sad news that their principal, Mr Martyn Campbell, passed away yesterday (Tuesday 14 June), following an...

    • Posted June 15, 2016
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  • Go-ahead for Shakespeare College & Theatre in Prescot

    A planning application for the building of a Shakespearean theatre and educational facility in Prescot town centre has been successful. Knowsley Council’s Planning Committee granted planning permission for the proposed complex, which has already received local and...

    • Posted April 22, 2016
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  • What Will Prescot’s Shakespeare Theatre Look Like?

    If charity Shakespeare North receive planning permission in April, they could be building an Elizabethan-style theatre and college in Prescot town centre. The plans, for the Mill Street Car Park adjacent to the Old Mill pub, would...

    • Posted March 15, 2016
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