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A chance remark leads to Penwortham Priory Academy 70 year reunion

4 elderley, caucasian people - 2 men and 2 women - inside holding an old school blazer A chance comment by one of Penwortham Priory Academy’s Class of 1953 led to a fantastic 70 year reunion in the school’s Rose Garden.  Priory’s first head girl Sonia Ward […]

9 months ago
Leyland primary school to be demolished and rebuilt

Pupils from a primary school in Leyland will move into temporary classrooms while the ageing buildings in which they currently learn are flattened and replaced. Seven Stars Primary School, on […]

9 months ago
Penwortham teaching ‘legend’ reaches retirement

A Penwortham geography teacher has called time on his career to head off into retirement. Andy Watters has been described as a ‘legend’ by staff and pupils at Penwortham Priory […]

9 months ago
Lancashire Police issue ‘tap out’ challenge warning after schoolboy, 12, put in hospital

A warning has been issued over a dangerous new social media craze that’s seen a teenager taken to hospital for treatment. Lancashire Police has warned parents, carers and young people […]

9 months ago
Advertisement Advertisement Family colour run coming to Grimsargh school

The colorful shoes and legs of teenagers at colour run event A family colour run is set to take place in Grimsargh later this month. The event, organised by Grimsargh St. Michael’s CofE Primary School PTFA Committee, will take place at […]

9 months ago
Fulwood school to stage Matilda the Musical JR

Pupils rehearsing for Matilda the Musical JR at Archbishop Temple Church of England High School A secondary school in Fulwood is getting set to stage a popular musical. Archbishop Temple Church of England High School’s Performing Arts Department is looking forward to staging Roald Dahl’s […]

9 months ago
Penwortham’s Whitefield Primary School’s heroic efforts to raise money for charity

Group picture of pupils at Whitefield Primary School Pupils from Penwortham’s Whitefield Primary School (pictured above) took power dressing to the extreme when they swapped uniforms for superhero costumes to help raise more than £1,000 for Lancashire Teaching […]

9 months ago
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals celebrate 75th anniversary of first Windrush arrivals

Old sepia photo of an Antilles boat on the sea Colleagues across Lancashire Teaching Hospitals celebrated the 75th anniversary of the first Windrusharrivals, whose history is forever intertwined with the NHS. On June 22 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush docked […]

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