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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Yahoo
Warning issued as 'mindless' vandals keep setting fires near primary school
Officers have fired a warning following a string of 'mindless' fires near to a Greater Manchester primary school. Young vandals have been setting fires near to St Teresa's Primary School in Little Lever, Bolton, in recent days. Greater Manchester Police says the youths have even targeted the forest school which belongs to St Teresa's. READ MORE: Former Manchester United player, 19, died after quitting football in 'sudden' mood change READ MORE: Family's double tragedy as second teenager killed five years after shooting Officers believe the fires could have been worse had crews not arrived on the scene when they did. They are calling for the behaviour to stop - and urging anyone with information about the fires to get in touch with GMP. A spokesperson for GMP Bolton said: "We have seen an increase in anti-social behaviour along the pathway between Redcar Road and Fletcher Street. "This started with youths hanging out in the wooded area of the path but has now extended to the fields behind St Teresa's primary school. "We have had several reports regarding youths causing fires and burning down the forest school belonging to St Teresa's. Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HERE "Having visited the arson site, it is lucky that the fire service attended when they did. The overhanging trees and dry conditions could have [resulted] in the fire spreading. "This is a mindless act and ongoing enquiries will continue this week. If you have any information that could assist in the matter then please email 65429@ --- For the latest stories and breaking news visit Get the latest headlines, features and analysis that matter to you by signing up to our various Manchester Evening News newsletters here. You can also get all your favourite content from the Manchester Evening News on WhatsApp. Click here to stay up to date with the latest. Follow us on X @mennewsdesk for all the latest stories and updates on breaking incidents from across the region and beyond, as well as on our Facebook page here. If you prefer reading our stories on your phone, consider downloading the Manchester Evening News app here, and our newsdesk will make sure every time an essential story breaks, you'll be the first to hear about it.
South China Morning Post
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Letters from readers: Discover the joy of dogs, flipbooks and other creative hobbies
Do you have something to share? Send us your letters using this form Joseph Wong (aged 8), Kowloon Junior School I really love dogs! They are the best animals ever. It is very cool how they wag their tails when they are happy. Dogs can be super funny, like when they chase their tails or bark at their reflections in the mirror. I love watching videos of corgis playing because they are so cute and silly. I like to imagine playing fetch with them and giving them lots of treats. Dogs are also really friendly and love to cuddle. Having a dog as a friend would be the greatest thing ever because they always make you happy. Fun fact: corgis were Queen Elizabeth's favourite animal. Joseph Wong enjoys spending time with dogs. Photo: Handout Adam Chan Long-kiu (aged 8), St Hilary's Primary School A flipbook is a booklet with a series of images, each gradually changing from one page to the next. When flipped quickly, images appear to move. I made my first flipbook, titled The Bouncy Ball, when I was seven years old. Although it wasn't very good, I didn't lose my passion. I learned how to make flipbooks by watching a YouTube channel called 'Andymation.' Recently, I made a flipbook called The Shadow Friend. I worked hard on it for a week, and when I finished, I felt a great sense of satisfaction. Adam Chan enjoys creating flipbooks. Photo: Handout Heather Chu Wai-kiu (aged 10), Sacred Heart Canossian School Private Section I want to tell you about the activities I enjoy doing at home. First, I like drawing cute characters because I want to practise my drawing skills and I feel happy when I draw. Second, I love playing with Play-Doh because I can use it to make anything in my imagination, and I often make animals and family members. I hope you will enjoy the same activities!
BBC News
29-01-2025
- General
- BBC News
Irish language: Over 15,000 primary pupils take part in scheme
Irish is the latest language nine-year-old Soham can now confidently St Malachy's Primary School pupil also speaks Marathi, Hindi and Belfast school is one of over 80 in Northern Ireland taking part in the Scoil Spreagtha by the language organisation Gael Linn, it encourages English-medium schools to use Irish too. Soham told BBC News NI that Irish is used widely in his school."In assembly, we talk to each other a bit in Irish," he said."It's fun just switching from one language to another."During the day in school we mostly use English and Irish, but in my house I use English, a bit of Irish sometimes and Hindi and Marathi." According to Soham's teacher at St Malachy's, Colette McSherry, learning a second language when young brings many other benefits for pupils."It helps their listening skills, because they have to listen very closely to pick up the pronunciation," she said."We find their concentration, their motivation, everything improves."We've been doing some Irish for a while."It's not an add-on, it's something that comes naturally throughout the day." About 40% of St Malachy's 400 pupils are "newcomers", who did not originally have Irish or English as a first language."Those children, they are especially keen to learn Irish," Ms McSherry said."They go home and they teach their parents phrases in Irish, their parents will use some Irish when they're speaking to me in the morning."It's fantastic. There's a whole culture of where languages are really important and really precious." St Malachy's pupils Freya and Jayson are both aged 10 and are also learning Irish."We learn Irish in school, like the colours and the numbers," Jayson said."We play games and we do some stuff in PE and we do all the counties in Ireland."It just seems fun."Freya also said that she enjoyed learning about "the colours and the numbers" in Irish. GCSE languages Séamas Mac Eochaidh, from Gael Linn, said that St Malachy's was one of 82 English-medium primary schools taking part in the total, nearly 15,000 pupils are involved in the Scoil Spreagtha scheme and more than 80 schools are on the waiting list for it, he Mr Mac Eochaidh said that there were concerns about the falling number of pupils studying languages, including Irish, for GCSE and beyond."We believe that a lot of that is that children don't get the educational opportunities to learn a second language or to hear a second language or to see second language on a daily basis at the primary level," he said."We believe that this work being done at primary level will boost GCSE numbers not just for Irish at GCSE but all languages."Funding for a primary school languages programme was axed almost a decade Mac Eochaidh said that bilingual learning increased pupils' enthusiasm for learning all languages."There's been numerous examples of us being on a school visits where children have translated from one language to the other, back to the other, back to another language," he said."We would say that the Irish language can be an initiator for that."Everybody feels like they're on the same equal playing field, which obviously promotes that multicultural and multilingual classroom environment."
