GREEN Hall School has hit double top.

For the second successive year the Atherton school has won a prestigious national award for its distinctive and valuable contribution to the community.

Green Hall received the Schools Curriculum Award out of a record 411 nationwide entries.

Delighted Green Hall head Tony Triska said: "The award is testimony to the hard work of everyone associated with the school.

"The school will officially close in June 2000 and reopen in August as a new school for primary age children with moderate learning difficulties.

"What a way to finish with such a prestigious award!"

Chairman of Governors Cath Baines added: "I, too, am thrilled. This award certainly gives the new school something to look up to.

"My congratulations to the headteacher, his staff, the children and their parents.

"Everyone at Green Hall has worked very hard and I am very proud personally to be associated with it.

"We are all sad that the old school is closing but this award will be a great boost for the new unit."

Green Hall also won a Schools Curriculum Award in 1990 eight years after it was introduced to promote the idea of schools at the heart of the community.

Two adults and two pupils from Green Hall will be invited to the award ceremony next June.

Tim Nolan, chairman of the Award's trustees, said: "We were delighted so many schools in all corners of the took part, even though they have has so many other pressures on their time and the curriculum."

Currently Green Hall caters for four to 16 year olds with moderate learning difficulties.

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