Shows and Pantomimes
Billy Elliot – The Musical Palace Theatre 29 November – 28 January Billy Elliot is the inspirational story of one
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Manchester
MGS Junior Boys Complete Bear Grylls Survival Race for Tearfund Charity
Manchester Grammar School Junior School Boys Complete Bear Grylls Survival Race To Provide Clean Sanitation In The Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Inflatable Manchester Museum for Local Schools
Manchester Museum (part of The University of Manchester) launches the UK’s first Inflatable Museum on April 2016, bringing the museum experience to school halls all over Greater Manchester. Developed in partnership with stage designers and sound artists, this inflatable copy of Manchester Museum incorporates a performance area, exploratory activity spaces, and high quality projection and audio equipment.
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The Manchester Grammar School Turned Pink
One of the country’s most historic, and iconic, schools turned pink to raise money for a local breast cancer charity. Boys were invited to wear an article of pink clothing to raise funds for the Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention charity, based in Wythenshawe, Manchester.
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Rabiah’s Poem Crowned Best In Manchester
Manchester High School for Girls pupil, 11-year-old Rabiah Ahmed from Knutsford, has shown poetic brilliance by winning the Best Poem in Manchester – prize in the Young Writers’ ‘Poetry Emotions’ competition.
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Manchester High to Grow Seeds from Space
Children in the Preparatory Department at Manchester High School for Girls are preparing to embark on a voyage of discovery and grow seeds that have been into space as part of Tim Peake’s Principia mission to the International Space Station
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The Long Reach of the Bus is All in the Book
Manchester’s streets will be a rainbow of colour this Sunday, 18 October. Not a parade, or a paint festival, but a family day that reminds anyone who travelled to school or work by bus decades ago that buses come in all shades and hues.
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Royal Visit to Withington Girls’ School
Withington’s new Junior School and Central Hub were officially opened yesterday, Wednesday 30th September 2015, during a Royal visit by HRH The Duchess of Gloucester to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the School’s foundation.
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Northern Ballet’s Latest Children’s Ballet Continues National Tour
Northern Ballet’s enchanting ballet for children, Elves & the Shoemaker, visits the Palace Theatre, Manchester this October. The national tour has already covered over 3,600 miles and the production has been adapted for TV by CBeebies.
To win family ticket for Friday 16.10.15, 12 noon…
Run Wild, Child Family Adventure
Children and Family activity day within Dig the City, summer garden festival at Manchester City Centre. Free event on Thursday 6 August 2015, 10am – 3pm.
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Time travel destination
Due to popular demand, the Manchester Children’s Book Festival is back a year earlier than expected, and now an annual event.
M&D asked the Creative Director of the festival – Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy – about the festival, poetry and love of books.