Summer's end heralded by the new school term

As the end of the summer approaches we like to take stock and look back on all the things we achieved, and there has been a lot to take stock of this year.

All through late July and August we have been busy running our Summer Projects at schools in London and Manchester. The Summer Project is all about helping incoming year 7 students with the transition into high school, as well as providing a place for young people to have fun during the school holidays.

We worked with four schools in Manchester this year: The Barlow RC High School in Didsbury, Manchester Creative Media Academy in Higher Blackley, Our Lady's RC Sports College in Higher Blackley, and St Paul's Catholic High School in Wythenshawe.


Across the projects the young people threw themselves into fun and engaging top up sessions in Maths and English, learned about industrial Manchester on trips to the Museum of Science and Industry, ran aerial gauntlets at Challenge 4 Change, went head to head with their peers in our Olympic sports day events (thanks to PWC and RBS who supported the events at Our Lady's and MCMA respectively), and tackled extra-curricular sessions in arts and crafts, dance and drama, and sport.


As much as it might be tempting to sit back an admire all the fine work we did over the summer, we don't have the time! The new academic year is just around the corner and it's time for us to get back to work planning our projects for the school year. We can't wait to do it all again. Hopefully you can come with us!