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  • Mobile phones in schools: Necessary tool or toxic distraction?

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    With research indicating that 90% of children own a mobile phone by their eleventh birthday, but increasing concerns about their effect on mental health and online safety, how do we find the right balance, and how do we implement policies that are manageable for schools and supportive of both the education and wellbeing of children and young people?  With increasing pressure on schools to act, what are the challenges they face and how might these be addressed?

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  • Cheshire Prize for Literature Awards Evening

    University of Chester Exton Park School of Education University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester

    The Cheshire Prize for Literature showcases the literary talents of writers with a connection to the Cheshire area. Now in its 22nd year, the awards evening will announce the winners in the primary, secondary and adult categories for poetry, short stories, children’s literature and scriptwriting. 

  • Postgraduate Research Exhibition

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    The postgraduate research exhibition will feature current research being conducted at the University of Chester across a variety of disciplines. The research will be presented via posters, detailing what the researcher is doing, how they are doing it, and what impact this could have.

  • The Peaces We Keep, Make, Transform

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    This is a participatory art work inviting visitors to sit, pause, and write a promise of peace for themselves, someone they love, or the wider world. You may keep it, dissolve it in water, or place it in a box.

  • Nourish to Flourish (Photo Exhibition)

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    Nourish to Flourish is a school-based project led by Kate and Ellie, helping children feel confident about healthy eating through creativity. Supported by the Bluecoat Charity, the Westminster Foundation and Crossing Borders, with evaluation support from RECAP (University of Chester). This year children explored artists from around the world and created artwork using food as material. The event includes a photo exhibition.

  • The Rows of Chester: A Unique Creation or a Unique Survival?

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    The uniqueness of Chester's Rows lies first in the imaginative adaptation of a common medieval building form to the city's hilly site. However, they would not have seemed so unusual had comparable buildings elsewhere survived better. The talk will look at parallels for the building type, how it was adapted to the landscape, and the historical circumstances that prompted it.

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  • The Royal Institution: Energy LIVE!

    University of Chester Exton Park Campus - Binks Building Parkgate Road, Chester

    Energy LIVE! is an exciting audience led show, for primary school children, delving into the different stores of energy and how they affect our lives. Through lively, fire-based demonstrations we take the intimidation out of the terminology around energy and show you just how simple this subject can be.

  • Supporting the next generation: inter-generational mentoring – how “the old” can mentor “the young”.

    Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester

    The MACIE (Mentoring And Coaching In Education) research group have undertaken extensive research into mentoring, and what works well when mentoring relationships are successful. In this interactive workshop session we will take you through what we have learnt from our research into mentoring in education settings, and apply it to real life situations that you can use in your everyday interactions.

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  • Promises to Ourselves

    Storyhouse Garret Theatre Hunter Street, Chester

    An exciting and thought provoking drama, dance and musical exploration of the hopes and aspirations of the students at Lymm High School and how they envisage their futures.

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