Video: Cockburn School does Hairspray
Here’s our video report from Cockburn School‘s sell out Christmas show, Hairspray:
Hairspray the musical at Cockburn School
Specialist School in the Performing Arts lets its hair down and dance the night away as Cockburn School presents Hairspray the Musical Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score, Hairspray gets Cockburn School in South Leeds to its feet, aerosol-style. You’ll tap your feet to
South of the River – Back to Schooldays
What does Cockburn School’s decision to convert to an academy tells us about what’s happening in education? I was one of a select number of people at Cockburn’s public meeting this week when the Headteacher and Governors set out their reasoning for the change. Elsewhere in the country over the
Meeting hears of Cockburn’s academy plans
Twenty parents and community members attended a meeting at Cockburn School to discuss the school governors’ intentions to convert the school to Academy status last night (19 October 2015). The meeting heard a presentation from Headteacher David Gurney explaining the school’s reasons for considering conversion. He stressed that the change
Updated: Cockburn set to become an academy
Cockburn School is consulting on whether to convert to become an Academy. Academies are state schools, centrally funded by the government and outside the control of the local authority. The school has received an Academy Order from the Department of Education which means the school can convert if the governing
Community Heroes To Receive Special Trophies at White Rose
More than 20 community heroes who go the extra mile to help others, will receive a very special award at White Rose Shopping Centre on 23 October. For the third consecutive year, the Glassroom at Cockburn School is producing a hand-made glass trophy and, once again, it will have a
Golden bolt ceremony at Lane End
Children from the new Lane End Primary School, together with staff from contractors Interserve, held a Golden Bolt Ceremony on the site of the new school last Monday (10 November 2014), when the final bolt into the steelwork frame was driven home by one of the reception class children. Work
Cockburn School
I have just been following the comments in South Leeds Life regarding the proposed Community Centre development on Barkly Road, and very interesting reading it makes! It did spur me on to look at what objections/support might have been placed on the Public Access pages of Leeds Planning. I was,
South Leeds Music Centre on the move!
The South Leeds Music Centre is moving from Cockburn School to the newly built Newlands Primary in Morley. This move will mean a brand new home for the music centre, which also has a new simpler fee policy. The centre opens for its new term on Saturday the 13th September,
South of the River – Altogether Now
What have the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the shooting down of an airliner over Ukraine got to do with a First World War commemoration at Cockburn School last Friday? The commemoration at Cockburn was done very well. A lot of work had gone into it, pupils had studied