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Apr 30 2009 Skelmersdale Advertiser

Ticket giveaway for classic show

THROUGHOUT the year, the Studio Theatre in Edge Hill University’s Centre for the Performing Arts screens a diverse body of carefully selected films.

The last offering of the current season is the 1961 classic ‘Whistle Down The Wind’, featuring a young Hayley Mills alongside co-star Alan Bates. The screening will take place tonight, Thursday, April 80, 2009 at 7.30pm.

When an escaped criminal seeks refuge in a barn, the children who discover him believe him to be Jesus Christ. This nostalgic British film is redolent of a more innocent age – and is a charming portrait of childhood in rural Lancashire. Nominated for four BAFTAs including Best Film, Whistle Down the Wind is a U certificate.

The Short Cuts Film Society has three pairs of ticket to tonight’s screening to give away to the first lucky readers to call 01695 58 4480 quoting Hayley Mills.

On their way to number 10

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, welcomed members of Edge Hill’s education team to Downing Street this week.

The event was held to celebrate the successful launch of the Numbers Count Programme.

Edge Hill University in partnership with Lancashire County Council has developed Numbers Count for the national Every Child Counts programme and is training 210 teachers across the country to give Numbers Count support to six-year-old-children who struggle with mathematics.

The Prime Minister praised the ‘tremendous work’ of the team to change the lives of young children who struggled with mathematics or reading.

Nick Dowrick, Head of Every Child Counts Programmes, was joined by Sylvia Dunn, Susie Nicholson, Kathy Secular, Louise Matthews, Rebecca Lewis, Andy Tynemouth and Yvonne Panteli, together with teacher leaders, teachers, children and their parents who all work together nationally on the Numbers Count programme devised and led by Edge Hill University.

Research published recently showed that children taking part in the first term of Numbers Count across England have made an average of 12 months’ progress over a three-month period with just 20 hours tuition.

This means the children are progressing at four times the nationally-expected rate.

Every Child Counts is a national partnership between the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the National Strategies, the Every Child A Chance Trust, and Edge Hill University. It aims to provide support for Year 2 children who struggle with mathematics. Numbers Count is the intervention programme that has been developed by Edge Hill University for teachers to use when working with children.

Around 40 per cent of pupils on Numbers Count are on free school meals compared to less then 20 per cent nationally.