Thousands of visitors enjoyed a Springtime experience at Reaseheath College’s Lambing and Zoo Weekend in Nantwich, making it the most successful yet.
The sell-out event, which is being repeated this coming weekend (March 11-12), attracted 2,500 visitors each day.
Game and wildlife students at Reaseheath College in Nantwich have joined a project to build and install nesting tubes for mallard ducks.
The mallard, once the UK’s commonest wild duck, has seen its numbers drop over recent years and it is now on the Birds of Conservation Concern Amber list if concern for the species.
Youngsters at Springfield School in Crewe and a charity supporting the health and wellbeing of women have teamed up to mark a day the international social calendar.
A programme of displays and fun activities will take place at Cheshire College, South and West in Crewe on March 4 to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Reaseheath College’s construction students are to gain real life skills by building a bungalow on the college’s Nantwich campus.
The college has received £110,000 funding from Specialist lender Together to enable the project to go ahead.
Plans have been submitted for the proposed new primary school at Kingsley Fields in Nantwich, writes Belinda Ryan.
The one-form entry school, which will accommodate 210 pupils, is planned for vacant land off Richard Gibson Road.
Several schools in Cheshire East will go into the red next year unless the government increases their funding, headteachers have told councillors.
For many years Cheshire East has received less funding for its schools than other councils because it is seen as an affluent area.
Reaseheath College welcomed Roads and Local Transport Minister Richard Holden MP onto campus during National Apprenticeship Week to see the progress of the UK’s first dedicated Bus and Coach Engineering Academy.
The academy is the result of an innovative and forward-thinking partnership between Reaseheath and First Bus.
Several apprentices and employers were commended at Cheshire College – South and West’s Apprenticeship Awards Ceremony.
The annual event celebrates the outstanding contributions of apprentices, as well as the positive impact of their employers.
Family, friends, former and current staff at Malbank School in Nantwich joined together to celebrate the life and contribution of former headteacher Herbert Rowsell.
Herbert died late last year and his wife and children were invited to the memorial.
A packed congregation of parishioners and members of the agricultural community celebrated the new farming year at a Plough Sunday service held at Reaseheath College in Nantwich.
The event was held in support of the Cheshire Agricultural Chaplaincy, a charity that supports people across all areas of agriculture going through challenging times
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Teachers striking for better pay and funding took their protest to the offices of Crewe and Nantwich MP Kieran Mullan yesterday (February 1).
Dozens of teachers and supporters from across Cheshire East marched through Crewe from the town’s railway station before demonstrating outside the Conservative MP’s office at lunchtime.
Striking members of the NEU are planning to stage a picket line outside Malbank School in Nantwich and a demonstration in Crewe this Wednesday (February 1).
Hundreds of teachers will be involved in the strike action across Cheshire, which will have major impact on schools across the borough.
Both secondary schools in Nantwich will be affected by the February 1 strike action which involves members of the National Education Union (NEU).
Brine Leas School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College are to close on Wednesday for some year groups due to staff shortages caused by industrial action.
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