Our Sixth Formers are holding a cake sale on Tuesday 17th March at morning break time on the Top Yard to raise funds for The Wingate Centre in Wrenbury. Bring some money, get a tasty treat and let's raise as much money as possible for a great community facility.

Tickets are now available from the school office for our annual Spring Showcase, which promises to be an evening full of wonderful musical talent.

Join us on Thursday 26th March as our students take to the stage to celebrate their hard work and creativity through a variety of performances. It’s always a highlight of the school calendar and a fantastic opportunity to support our young musicians. The show starts at 7pm in the main hall.

Please contact the school office to purchase your tickets and secure your seats. Adults £3.00, Concessions £2.00. Cash payments only please. Pay on the door will be available.

Welcome to the January 2026 edition of the Cheshire East Best Start Family Hub Partner Newsletter!
We hope this first newsletter of 2026 finds you and your loved ones well and that you had a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. 
Spotlight on...
NHS to roll out chickenpox vaccine for children

The NHS’s vaccination programme is being expanded to include chickenpox (also known as varicella) for the first time to help shield young children from getting seriously ill.

From now on, GP practices will start to offer children a combined MMRV vaccine at 12 months and 18 months of age to add chickenpox to the protections against measles, mumps and rubella.

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What's on at your nearest Family Hub

Many families will find January a challenging time both emotionally and financially.  We understand how demanding Christmas time can be, and so would like to remind you to encourage your families to attend our wide variety of FREE groups throughout January. 

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What's on?
Safer and Healthier Screen Time - Parent/Carer survey
Beyond is the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership's Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme. This is a partnership across the landscape with health, local authorities, and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector partners creating a social movement with a focus on early intervention and prevention.

Beyond's key priorities reflect both system-wide and Place-specific plans to support the delivery of the NHS Long-Term Plan and Health and Care Partnership's aim of giving every child the best start in life.

As part of the Beyond Programme’s Emotional Wellbeing & Mental Health Workstream, we are developing best-practice guidance and actionable advice for parents and carers on safe, healthy use of screens and social media by children and young people.

To inform this work, we’ve created a survey to find out more about the challenges parents/carers experience when managing their children’s screen and social media use. If you’re a parent or carer yourself, we would be most grateful if you could complete the survey and share your experiences and insights with us. We’d also appreciate if you could share the survey with other parents and carers so that we can get as many responses as possible.

All information will be anonymous unless you choose to share your details with us.

View and share the survey with your families
We need books for young adults
   
 If you are able to donate and pre-loved books for young adults in good condition, please [email protected]

We are recruiting Social Workers

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Assisted by the amazing Mrs Lambden (LSA and professional cricket coach), our U13 girls (and Mia) competed in the Cheshire Schools competition which we hosted at Malbank. Considering the girls had never played before, they were amazing. Shavington dropped out today, meaning we just had to play Sandbach. We batted hard and scored 50 and then Sandbach scored 90, meaning they were victorious. Our girls were absolutely amazing and made so much progress. Any girls in the school that would like to play we will be training again next Thursday and there is an U15 Girls comp two weeks today at Malbank. 

 

Meet our new sports leaders team. This amazing group of students have recently been giving up hours after school to officiate primary school events and will all be involved in the upcoming house Indoor Athletics competition on Monday and will then be staying until 5.30pm to run the Cheshire Primary schools Athletics competition. They have demonstrated a high level of commitment and engagement, actively participating in a wide variety of tasks with enthusiasm. Their involvement, collaborative working and proactive attitude enhances their own learning and positively impacts younger pupils.  Well done to all involved. 

Not in the photo -  Ruby Year 8