Two schools in East Lancashire have already had to send pupils home to self-isolate after positive coronavirus tests. Children only returned to the classrooms on Monday following a two-month lockdown, but parents have said several pupils from Darwen Vale Academy, and St Peter s Primary School in Blackburn have been told not to come into school. It is believed that 47 year seven pupils from Darwen Vale High School were told to stay home and self-isolate for 10 days after a student tested positive for the virus. And a bubble at St Peter s has been advised to self-isolate after a child there tested positive. The school refused to comment.
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IMMORTALISED…Housing association Salix Homes is paying its respects to Salford hero Canon Peter Green by naming its latest apartment block in the city’s Trinity district after the writer and social justice campaigner who died in 1961. During the First World War and until the 1950s, Green wrote a weekly column in the
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Guardian under the pen name ‘Artifex’, which is exactly what Salix has called its 108-unit affordable housing development under construction at present. The 11-storey building is part of the £22.5m Canon Green Campus redevelopment in Trinity – already named after Green, who was a rector at the nearby St Philips Church and wrote about pacifism and compassion, social injustice and women’s suffrage.
(Instagram/samaston93) If you are an avid soap watcher, they you will have undoubtedly seen Sam Aston grace your screens. Aston plays Chesney in Coronation Street and has been on the show since 2003. He has also managed to scoop several awards, including one for Best Young Actor. As he spent a lot of his time on set, Aston was privately tutored. However, once filming was finished he was able to return to Haslingden High School.
Keira Walsh This talented footballers is another former Haslingden High pupil. She currently plays for the women’s Manchester City team as well as the national team.
LONG-term disadvantaged pupils will see their academic performance affected by their situation, according to a report. Children across East Lancashire who come from disadvantaged families are struggling even more than before the Covid-19 pandemic, with a new report stating that those who have been living in poverty for a long time will also see this impact on their GCSE performance. The Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) compared numbers of secondary schools with a high level of long-term disadvantaged high impact pupils between 2017 and 2019, as well as analysing attainment at GCSE level, which has shown the disadvantage gap has increased for children.