OSCAR-winning film director Danny Boyle has taken time out from organising the Olympic Games opening ceremony to chat to schoolchildren.

Danny, famous for films Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire, officially opened the new £10 million Millwood Special School in Radcliffe.

He met pupils with a range of disabilities — and revealed a few details about what he has planned for the opening of the Games.

Danny is artistic director for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London and his visit coincided with the arrival of the Olympic Torch relay in Bolton yesterday.

He has spent two years working full-time on the spectacular event, but was keen to keep details under wraps. Danny, who grew up in Radcliffe and went to nearby St Mary’s RC Primary School, said: “The Olympics is enormous. I have to plan it inch by inch and it involves famous people, incredibly dangerous things and simpler things involving local people.

“We have a sequence in it involving people from the NHS.

“We have thousands of volunteers who are the heart of the show.

“We have commissioned a bell which has just been raised in the stadium. It’s the largest tuned ringing bell in the world.”

The new school replaces the former building in Fletcher Fold Road, Bury.

Danny said: “It’s lovely to be here. I went to primary school about 50 yards from here and although the building has gone now, it’s very sentimental.

“It’s fantastic to see a brand new establishment created and such a good one. It’s so well-equipped and the staff are fantastic people.”

The ceremony, on July 27, will be particularly poignant for Danny as it falls on what would have been his father’s birthday.

Frank Boyle died in February last year, aged 89.

Danny said: “My dad’s birthday is the date of the ceremony, which is a weird coincidence. He would have loved to be around for it. I will have a drink in his honour.”