• Abbotsholme kids prepare Royal celebration

  By CarlyBaldwin at 17:31 on 16/05/12

  

  As we told you earlier this week, preparations for Uttoxeter's Diamond Jubilee celebrations are well underway, and a local school is also getting in on the act. Abbotsholme Prep School will be hosting a Royal Garden Party to celebrate the big event. Year 1 and 2 children will play the roles of Royal Stewards, Footmen and Her Majesty's Guards when they welcome parents and staff to the school grounds next Friday. As teaching assistant...

• TV Star Brings The Animal Roadshow to Uttoxeter School

  By TVZoologist at 13:02 on 08/05/12

  

  TV Presenter and leading zoologist James McKay will be taking The Animal Roadshow to a Uttoxeter school On Wednesday.   James will be taking a selection of animals – many of them used on the recent Live 'n' Deadly roadshow and TV programmes – to Windsor Park C of E Middle School, Springfield Road, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire ST14 7JX on Wednesday, 10th May, 2012, between 0900 and 1200.  The animals being taken...

• Tough talking from Abbotsholme students

  By CarlyBaldwin at 14:34 on 16/04/12

  

  A group of Uttoxeter students are busy sharpening up their arguments as they prepare to compete in a prestigious schools debating championship. A team of orators from Abbotsholme School will take part in the Regional Finals of the Institute of Ideas Debating Matters Competition, to be held at Leicester University next week. Having already won through a local qualifying contest, they will now take on some of the best teams in the...

• Pupils shine at CSI Abbotsholme

  By CarlyBaldwin at 16:17 on 16/12/11

  

  While pupils at most schools are busy performing in nativity plays, Abbotsholme students got to grips with an altogether different end of term activity this week. Year 11 and Sixth Form students at the school donned their thinking caps as they played the part of Crime Scene Investigation officers during a mock murder scene. Staged by former forensic scientist Paul Smithard, the investigation was centred around a gruesome 'tactical...

• Val to retire after 28 years at Denstone

  By CarlyBaldwin at 11:40 on 06/12/11

  

  Local lady Valerie Redfern will retire from her position as Domestic Services Manager at Denstone College this Christmas, after an astonishing 28 years at the college. Val, who lives in Rocester, began working at Denstone in 1983, and was promoted to her current job in 1989. She manages a team of over fifty cleaners, and is responsible for domestic management of the entire college. On top of this, she also works on letting the college...

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