A new primary school for Nantwich will not be ready for pupils until September 2026 at the earliest.
Work to build the new Kingsbourne Academy on the Kingsbourne development off Waterlode has been dogged by delays.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Children vaping at schools in Cheshire East are not just using nicotine but other substances as well, the director of education has said.
Claire Williamson told Cheshire East’s health and wellbeing board that vaping was becoming a real concern for headteachers in the borough.
Reaseheath College’s popular lambing and mini zoo weekends once again delighted thousands of visitors this month.
And with the sun shining on all four event days, more than 10,000 people flocked to the college’s Nantwich campus to experience the magic of spring on the farm.
Year 11 and 13 students from Malbank School and Sixth Form College embarked on a trip of a lifetime to New York.
The visit had been planned for almost two years by staff at the Nantwich school.
A scheme providing school holiday activities and healthy meals to Cheshire East children will continue for at least one more year.
Cheshire East Council has been awarded new government funding for its Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme.
As many as 95% parents in Cheshire East will receive their first choice of secondary school on national offer day, the authority says.
On national offer day today (March 3), Cheshire East Council has informed thousands of parents and carers about their children’s secondary school places.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A panel set up last summer to look at the ‘extreme challenge’ of Cheshire East Council’s whopping £116 million special needs budget deficit has not met once, a councillor said.
Cash-strapped Cheshire East is overspent on its special needs and disability (SEND) budget because the cost of provision has outstripped government funding.
A retired school nurse from Nantwich is proving just the tonic for children needing a little extra help with their reading.
Mother-of-three Patricia Pickles is a volunteer with Schoolreaders, a charity that recruits people to visit a local primary school each week to listen to children read to improve their reading and comprehension skills.
Future land-based professionals were in the spotlight at the Reaseheath Apprenticeship Awards 2025.
The Nantwich college celebrated the achievements of apprentices and employers shaping their success across the UK.
Nantwich schools could soon have ANPR cameras outside to target bad or illegal parking by parents.
A ‘Safe haven’ parking pilot scheme is set to be trialled outside four schools in Cheshire East.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Nantwich rural schools are becoming over-subscribed but a new primary school which should have opened in September 2024 and was delayed for a year still hasn’t been built.
Planning permission was granted in June 2023 for the new 210-pupil Kingsbourne Academy on the Kingsley Fields development.
The headteacher of Stapeley Broad Lane C of E Primary School has hailed a “fantastic” report after their latest Ofsted inspection.
The school, part of the Cornovii Trust, has been praised by Ofsted for the ‘exemplary’ behaviour of pupils, a ‘broad and ambitious’ curriculum and ‘exceptional’ efforts in supporting pupil personal development.
Staff at Reaseheath Zoo in Nantwich are mourning the death of Timmy, a Brazilian Tapir.
Timmy has been a popular attraction at the mini zoo since arriving in Nantwich in 2007
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