Goodbye, we're off to our new home! (From The Bolton News)

Goodbye, we're off to our new home!

BOLTON'S Community Education Service is "untying the knot" with Queen Street School - after 25 years.

The service is moving into new purpose-built premises a few streets away on King Street, Farnworth, near both the shopping centre and bus station.

Barbara Woodward, a worker at the service, said: "We're really excited about moving. It's an ideal location that makes it easy for people to bob into and learn skills that change their lives."

The new location is on the ground floor, making access easier for disabled people and for parents who want to use the creche.

It will provide a range of adult courses during the daytime ranging from art, business administration and computers to languages.

There will also be a new computer site and educational advice and guidance sessions .

But it does not mean the end of the close ties between the community education service and the school.

Sheila Holland, the head teacher of Queen Street School, Farnworth, said: "As well as sharing a building, we have always been involved with the service and that involvement will continue.

"We will be setting up a community room and we will also be developing specialist rooms, including a music and audio-visual room, an art and technology room and a support room for children with special needs. The current creche will become an infant library."

The service is expecting more than 800 adults a week to visit the centre and it estimates that 200 children will take advantage of the free childcare.

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