Old Swan Alive - 9 Spring 2020
Old Swan Alive is a free community magazine and business directory that provides low-cost advertising to businesses and organisations in Old Swan, Liverpool, UK and surrounding areas. The magazine will is a handy A5 size printed on gloss art paper giving it a high-quality look and feel and also online.
Old Swan Alive is a free community magazine and business directory that provides low-cost advertising to businesses and organisations in Old Swan, Liverpool, UK and surrounding areas. The magazine will is a handy A5 size printed on gloss art paper giving it a high-quality look and feel and also online.
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Feature
Here are just some of the school’s
amazing achievements:
• Pupils develop business ideas, and their
entrepreneurship generates trade for the area: the
launch of SightBox, containing sports equipment
designed by the students, prototyped and sent to
manufacture. These boxes are purchased by Rotary
Clubs and schools around the world in support
of Visually Impaired pupils internationally (@
sightboxuk). St Vincent’s has partnered with Silver
& Rose Opticians to provide specialist glasses for
young people with albinism around the world.
• Readings using braille of students’ own work at
civic events such as the recent launch of Liverpool’s
Year of Reading.
• Song writing with Nathan West of East of Ely fame.
• The ‘Lasting Legacy’ project, with the support of
the Liverpool Rotary Club, remembering those
who lost their sight during the Great War.
Hand-made ceramics were presented to Her
Majesty the Queen, the Palaces of Westminster,
and to the City of Liverpool.
• Awarded ‘Freedom of the City’ in 2005.
• Reverse Inclusion activities such as Parkrun with
sighted-guides, Scouts club, the Duke of Edinburgh
Awards, Gardening Club (achieving Britain in
Bloom 2018 Outstanding) are just a few of the
creative opportunities for students at the school.
Below: Dr John Patterson, Principal
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