CALDERDALE children showed off their talents in a national schools festival.

Pupils from St Andrew's Junior School, Brighouse, and Holy Trinity Senior School, Holmfield, Halifax, took part in the first ever Shine week to showcase their talents.

The aim of the festival was to celebrate all kinds of talents, from singing and dancing to cooking, photography and gardening.

At St Andrew's a week of activities for arts week included dance workshops, sports day, a drama club performance and a drumming workshop.

CALDERDALE children showed off their talents in a national schools festival.

Pupils from St Andrew's Junior School, Brighouse, and Holy Trinity Senior School, Holmfield, Halifax, took part in the first ever Shine week to showcase their talents.

The aim of the festival was to celebrate all kinds of talents, from singing and dancing to cooking, photography and gardening.

At St Andrew's a week of activities for arts week included dance workshops, sports day, a drama club performance and a drumming workshop.

BARROW’s best young cricketers were given the Chance to Shine as they took to the field at Furness CC.

Teams from across the town, Walney and Lindal and Marton all took part in the Kwik Cricket festival, organised under the auspices of the ECB.

A total of 16 teams from 10 schools took part in the festival, proving the huge popularity of cricket among children in the area at present.

In the final of the competition, Dane Ghyll took on Victoria, two teams who had previously won the two district Kwik Cricket finals to reach the county finals.

NEVER mind “Britain’s Got Talent” — one Oldham school has discovered pupils and staff with amazing abilities.

Over the past four weeks, pupils and staff at Alexandra Park Junior School, Glodwick, have been nominating anyone they think has a hidden talent.

The gifted youngsters, some who were spotted for their sporting, artistic and musical talent, were then congratulated with special certificates during National Shine Week. Staff were also recognised for taking part in the Great Manchester Run.

Denbigh High focus of national schools festival
Budding chefs at Denbigh High School have been showing off their skills to television viewers across the country this week.

The school was chosen to play a major part in Shine, the national schools festival, which is taking place this week to showcase the talents of school pupils in areas including cooking, dance, sport and science.

Film crews have been visiting schools around the country as part of Shine, and on Monday footage of Year 9 and 10 students from Denbigh was broadcast on the Breakfast programme on BBC One.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats. The end of term is nigh and this is the final edition of SecEd for this academic year.

It seemed the perfect opportunity for us to thank all of you for your continued support for SecEd and what we are trying to achieve.

Our ethos is one of support and solidarity for our nation’s hard-working school staff – be they teachers, leaders, support staff, or any of the myriad of other crucial positions we now have in our schools.

Young people from a Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland ‘School of Creativity’ will quite literally juggle the three R’s during a week of Circus Training.

When parents hear the words "I want to join the circus" they usually fear the worst, but young people attending Greenfield Arts College are being offered the chance to try their hand at a host of specialist performances activities.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats. The end of term is nigh and this is the final edition of SecEd for this academic year.

It seemed the perfect opportunity for us to thank all of you for your continued support for SecEd and what we are trying to achieve.

Our ethos is one of support and solidarity for our nation’s hard-working school staff – be they teachers, leaders, support staff, or any of the myriad of other crucial positions we now have in our schools.

AYRESOME Primary School in Middlesbrough prides itself on being able to unlock the hidden talents of all its pupils.

Links with arts and sporting professionals means youngsters get to try, practise and excel in disciplines from music and dance to gymnastics and football. The arts are used to make the curriculum more appealing to youngsters.

The school saw the Shine Festival as the ideal opportunity to display the talents pupils have been working hard to develop.

The Shine Schools Festival aims to challenge the narrow perceptions of talent promoted on X-Factor type television shows.

Thousands of events will take place this week in a national schools festival designed to celebrate talent in all young people.

Events in the festival, called Shine, will showcase dance, music, film, sport, science, enterprise and a host of less recognised 'talents' such as caring and leadership.

Many schools have taken on the challenge of finding and celebrating a talent in each pupil.

Almost 350 different skills have been identified by young people themselves.