What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Government’s Department for Education (DfE) has today (12 April 2017) given the go ahead for two new Free Schools in South Leeds. As we reported back in October 2016 that the Cockburn Multi Academy Trust plan to open a new secondary school, to be called the Laurence Calvert Academy.
Students at Cockburn had special assemblies on Thursday 9 March to commemorate the death of student Kyle Asquith, who passed away following a fatal brain haemorrhage 4 years ago. A year after the 15-year-old’s tragic death, students and teachers at Cockburn launched a series of special fund-raising events in his
Senior Leaders at two Multi-Academy Trusts, working with the Regional Schools Commissioner, are setting out a new vision for inter-trust relationships and collaboration. These proposals would see The South Leeds Academy, part of Delta Academies Trust, join the nearby Cockburn Multi-Academy Trust. Delta (formerly the Schools Partnership Trust) has been
A stunning new show, about to hit London’s West End has chosen Cockburn School for its final warm up show. And every penny from the ticket price is being donated to the Kyle Asquith Foundation. The show takes place on Thursday (30 March 2017) at 7:15pm and tickets are just
Here’s your slightly irregular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week down by the river. Leeds Waterfront Festival will be celebrating its 10th anniversary when it returns on the weekend of 24 & 25 June. As usual
The headteacher and staff at Cockburn School in Beeston, Leeds, have been selected for a top role supporting schools in challenging circumstances. David Gurney is one of more than 70 headteachers to be appointed to the role of national leader of education (NLE) in the latest recruitment round. NLEs along
Cockburn School has launched itself into the world of social media in its latest drive to share all of the exciting and successful news and events that happen in and around the school community. Readers can search for @cockburnschool to follow the school on Facebook and Twitter. Cockburn recently worked
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week on Maud Avenue in Beeston, where The Inner South Neighbourhood Policing Team followed up information from the public to make arrests and seize a car in relation
Local environmental charity The Conservation Volunteers is has a busy start to 2017. The Green Gym sessions funded by NHS Leeds South & East CCG are now well established at Skelton Grange in Stourton and in Health for All‘s base at Cockburn High School in Beeston. As gardening gathers pace
Here’s our video report from Cockburn School‘s production of Billy Elliot The Musical which runs from 6-9 December 2016.