Autumn 2021

In 2021 Little Amal (a 3.5 metre tall puppet representing a 9 year old Syrian refugee girl) will begin her 8000 kilometre walk through Europe from the Syria-Turkey border and ending in Sheffield and Manchester. [Read more]

Story by Martin Currie. Photo by James Woollen. Patrick Amber, the local artist we now share with Greece, was on top form during his last visit home. Along with Gary Manton, he gatecrashed the Nottingham [Read more]

Words by Dianne Hancock. Picture by Falak Zeb. It’s every parent’s nightmare to have a child diagnosed with a serious condition but Falak Zeb had to face this challenge twice. In 2001 her newborn daughter [Read more]

Words and picture by Hamsa Awil. I embarked on a challenge to run four miles for 40 days. The motive behind this physical and mental quest is to test myself. I lived all my life [Read more]

Story by Sadia Khan. Photos by Carl Rose. Emilie Taylor is an artist who uses her art for the purpose of storytelling. Her work is an inspiration to many, highlighting the importance of many worldwide [Read more]

In year 4, Falconry UK came to visit our school and showed us lots of different birds like owls, hummingbirds and other various birds. When they came, they told us why the birds looked the [Read more]

Story by Vanesa Dunkova. Unfortunately, the world is being destroyed by deforestation, urbanisation and air pollution. Changes like these have caused climate change, poor air quality and undrinkable water. The first negative impact humans have [Read more]

Story by Y6 USA. Innocent sea animals are being killed. Plastic pollution travels all the way through lakes, streams and rivers demolishing their beautiful habitat. This needs to stop immediately! Almost all the rubbish on [Read more]

Story by Year 3 Denmark. We all got an iPad during the coronavirus lockdown of 2021. The iPad helped us to learn during lockdown. Every day we could meet our class on Microsoft Teams to [Read more]

Story by OASIS Academy Year 6 pupils. In Y6 we had a visitor named Olga who was an astronomer. She brought a gigantic planetarium dome, which was nearly as big as our classroom! We climbed [Read more]

Story by Year 3 Denmark On the 23rd of April 2021 Year 3 Denmark had a visit from a real farm! They made a farm in our playground with sheep, alpacas, goats, ducks, and lots [Read more]

The Mini Messenger needs youth groups, schools and people aged 5-25 to help create a section made by and for young people. Training and support is available. If you would like to get involved please [Read more]

Story and photo by Emily Hutchinson. Sheffield Theatres are looking to work with artists who live in the Burngreave and Pitsmoor area to deliver creative projects as part of Sheffield Theatre’s community project Together with [Read more]

Story by Teo Greenstreet. Photo by Mike Poole. Troupe is Greentop Community Circus’s performance company for young aspiring performers aged 11–25 years. They’ve just finished touring their 2021 show “Playground of Dreams” that performed at [Read more]