Newsletter - 20/02/2015

February 20, 2015 by Joanna Harrison

GIVING YOUR CHILD THE BEST START

St. Michael's School is a popular and forward thinking Prep School where traditional values and progressive teaching and learning methods go hand in hand to provide all children with an excellent start to their education. The majority of our Year 6 children go on to one of the grammar schools within the Southend area or to leading independent senior schools, but we make it our goal to ensure that all of our children move on fully prepared for the next phase of their learning and development.

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COMEDY 4 KIDS

Well those lovely people at Park view and the Joker club bring you Comedy 4 kids. At 2 pm on Easter Saturday 4th April the highly recommended touring performers come to town for an hour of laughter and gives the kids a chance to see inside the world of stand up comedy. Tickets are just £7, a family ticket for 4 persons £24 and must include one adult. All under 16s must also be accompanied by an adult

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ALL HAIL INDEPENDENTS

On Saturday I walked my sister in law's dog through Leigh Broadway amidst hundreds of weekend shoppers. As he stopped to sniff at every lamppost from The Grand to St Clement's Church, I actually had time to stop and take in my surroundings. I've lived in Leigh all my life so know the Broadway very well - in fact I have worked on or just off the Broadway three times - but what I really love about it is that it is constantly changing.
Leigh has a very entrepreneurial spirit. Growing up, the only chains were Woolworths, Co-op and Kodak, and most of my time as a teenager was spent in Fives buying tapes, Swanley's newsagent buying magazines and Gran Moda picking out which clothes I wanted when I got some birthday money. Even then, independents ruled. Sadly, Costa Coffee now resides where Swanley's newsagent lived (or 'Ken Brown' if that's how you knew it) but despite the Costa, Subway and Tesco, it's mainly run by local people running their own independent businesses.

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THE MOST INGENIOUS MURDER MYSTERY FOR A DECADE

The Palace Theatre will play host to a gripping psychological thriller from the doyen of great detective/thriller writers, Richard Harris (A Touch of Frost, The Avengers, the Sweeney and The LastDetective) when THE BUSINESS OF MURDER arrives in town for a week on 9 March following a successful nine years in the West End. Starring Robert Gwilyn (Casualty, The Bill), Paul Opacic (Bad Girls, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale) and Joanna Higson (Shameless, WPC56) this really is "The most ingenious murder mystery for a decade"(Daily Mail)

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