What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Staff in protection suits patrolled the playground after a mysterious object was discovered at New Bewerley Community School in Beeston this morning, Monday 23 November 2015. Children were keen to investigate but were kept back whilst the object was investigated. Headteacher Gary German told children in assembly that he wasn’t
Lane End Primary School celebrated its first Children in Need day with a bun sale as well as a non-uniform day and face-painting extravaganza on Friday 13 November 2015. The school opened in September 2015 on the site of South Leeds Sports Centre in Beeston. The children baked buns all
It was Thursday 12 November 2015 on a winters evening. Twelve children and their families gathered together at the Civic Hall in the centre of Leeds to find out who was going to be the new Children’s Lord Mayor of Leeds. Hannah Begum from Hunslet Moor Primary school south Leeds
The South Leeds Academy this week launched a new video about its approach to Creativity. https://youtu.be/0snzAXnPP6s The video is part of the school’s efforts to demonstrate how much has changed at the academy and the first of series where staff and students talk about and demonstrate the key values that
The decision on the controversial plans for the former Ice Pak factory on Barkly Road in Beeston will now be decided by a Planning Inspector after Aspiring Communities lodged an appeal for ‘non-determination’. The application was due to be heard at the South & West Plans Panel meeting on Thursday
Do you have one day spare this week and one next? Would you like a free tour of a selection of art venues in Leeds? BasementArtsProject, Leeds Beckett University, Lloyd&Wilson, East Street Arts and the British Art Show (at Leeds Art Gallery until 10 January 2016) are seeking ten members
Love Beeston / Clean Beeston – Rowland Road, a success story Every year as part of our action planning, Beeston in Bloom identifies an area that is overgrown and in need of some TLC. In 2014 we agreed that the traffic calming planter at the junction of Rowland Road and
Hannah Begum, a pupil at Hunslet Moor Primary School was announced as the Children’s Lord Mayor of Leeds on Thursday evening (12 November 2015). [slideshow_deploy id=’41901′] As previously reported on South Leeds Life, Hannah stood for the position of Children’s Mayor and was elected by the under 18s of our
Last Wednesday (11 November 2015) saw a short, simple but powerful Remembrance Day event outside the Holy Spirit church on Tempest Road in Beeston. It was attended by people from across the community: veterans, councillors, staff and members from Hamara, pupils from Park View Primary, and a range of local
Community leaders in south Leeds have voiced their frustration at the botched local consultation on the City Council’s Site Allocations Plan, and are calling on residents to urgently look at the plan and comment on it before the looming deadline of Monday 16th November (2015). The Leeds-wide plan has been