We have had a wonderful World Book Day today across all of our sites. Our children, who would struggle to get to the shops to choose their book, were given books in their beds/ classrooms thanks to our friends Waterstones Trafford Centre Thank you for helping us to make some magic today!

Join us at our FREE event 'An Agile Approach to Education' where we will be sharing how we adopt an agile approach to responding to pupils' needs to ensure they receive a high quality education. Email - [email protected] for more information.

To mark British Science Week we have been running a range of scientific activities across our sites including modelling and extracting DNA and building solar farms. Well done to all our young people who got involved.

The date today is 3/14 so it must be pi 🥧 day! We celebrated with a delicious themed lunch at Leo Kelly. We hope you had a hap(pi) day 😃

To celebrate the International Day of Mathematics, our students at Galaxy House created this lovely display for the 'maths you can touch' challenge. Their design made it to the world map and can be viewed in the link below. idm314.org/2025-math-you-…

We are proud to announce that we have achieved the Autism Specialist Award from National Autistic Society This award is part of The Autism Accreditation Programme and allows us to be recognised as specialist providers in the Specialist Education sector. Pictured: Deputy Headteacher G Rees-Moffitt

We are very proud to announce that we are a 'Rainbow Flag Award' School. Rainbow Flag Award

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Bee Inspired session where we considered 'What is an Agile Approach to Education?' Lots of great discussions with primary, secondary and special school colleagues. #inclusion #send #equityineducation

This week has seen the annual PE Challenge take place on the wards Manchester Hospital School , with the theme being Basketball. The pupils and young people who took part were amazing and so were the ward managers too! Thanks to everyone for taking part and making this challenge great fun too.

What do you see? 👀 Like us, perhaps not an awful lot! This is currently one of our outside spaces at Leo Kelly. Watch this space for some exciting developments that are taking place this week. 🤗 🌳🌸

Excitement is building at Leo Kelly, our sensory garden is developing fast. This project has been made possible thanks to #EQUANS, #GMCA, #SSEenergysolutions. We can't wait to show you further progress!

The sun is shining today for our Year 2 #ECT Welcome Conference with Bright Futures Teaching School Hubs and Teach First ! ☀️😃 Great to see our ECTs ready to get stuck in💪and to hear from today's guest speaker, Gwen from Manchester Hospital School, sharing their delivery of transitional education & support available.

We can see a lot of splashes of colour 🌸🌸 as our sensory garden develops. #EQUANS continue to do an amazing job along with support from, not only our own students, but some from other schools who are completing work experience. Thank you also to whoever ordered this weather! 🌞

There was lots of painting today at Leo Kelly. Students did a great job at painting the shed and made some beautiful creations to scatter in our sensory garden. 🎨🖌👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

Our Sensory Garden is open! Thank you to all the schools, volunteers and generous donations which have made this project such a success. Our pupils at The Leo Kelly School are going to love learning in our outside spaces. Thank you to Amanda Corcoran for cutting the ribbon.

Thank you Firwood High School Pioneer House High School Melland High School Equans Travis Perkins SSEenergy KennyWasteManagement Tiger Supplies Ltd, Speedy Services, Cheltenham Green Civils, Jewsons, J Parkers, Hindle Construction, EWI Pro Insulation Systems

Please see details of a webinar that some of our readers may find useful.

Pupils at Manchester Hospital School have been celebrating the #manchesterinternationalfestival with this year's theme 'Dream Differently'. Students created this artwork and soundtrack inspired by the theme.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the companies who have donated generously to MHS. Your kindness and support have made a difference to our families. We look forward to continuing this great partnership. Beautybanks Tesco TheBikeHive 🐝 Wood Street Mission #youngcarers