What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
In February we reported how pupils at St Mary’s CofE Primary Academy in Hunslet were growing salad vegetables indoors. The growing tower has lights and a pumping system to provide the best growing conditions indoors, no matter what the weather is doing outside. Vicky, who is in Year 4, has
Pupils at Hunslet St Mary’s Primary School take environmental issues very seriously as I discovered when I dropped in on group learning how to grow salads indoors. Nathan Atkinson, Director of Rethink Food and a former headteacher, was in school to show the children how to grow crops in a
Welcoming and making children and young families feel welcome in a church environment is a sensitive balance and often a tricky task but one which Hunslet Community Church has met very well. Meeting in the hall of Hunslet St Mary’s primary school, Belle Isle and Hunslet parish have worked very
What do you do when a knee operation keeps you off work? If you’re teacher Matt Keddie you find an online training course and get accredited as South Leeds’ first United Nations Climate Change teacher. Rising global temperatures are leading to more extreme weather events – heat waves and droughts,
A South Leeds primary school has been shocked by a damning report from Ofsted, which gave the school the lowest rating of “Inadequate”. Hunslet St Mary’s Primary School was inspected over three days in December and January but the report was only published yesterday (24 April 2019). Inspectors found the
Hilary Benn our local Member of Parliament was at St Mary’s Primary School in Hunslet for the official opening of the new school building extension on Friday 13 July 2018. Mr Benn was grilled with questions at a session with years 5 and 6, followed by the planting of a
The children from Hunslet St Marys got the chance to go to Halifax leisure centre and perform at the West Yorkshire U11 Athletics championships in January, having done very well in the Leeds Primary schools Sportshall athletics competitions. They made it through to represent West Yorkshire in the Yorkshire Regional
The former Hunslet Gate Centre – a former school on Sussex Gardens – is due to be sold by Leeds City Council, at auction on 15th September. It is expected to fetch £225,000+. Click here for further info (lot 94). Until recently a school, it has been empty for some
Leeds City Council is consulting on plans to expand Hunslet St Mary’s Primary School from one to one and a half form entry. The plans are part of ongoing programme across the city to ensure there are enough school places for the rising population. The proposal is to expand the
This week South Leeds has been touched to two terrible stories with the attack in Beeston and the car crash in Morley. These have been covered elsewhere, but here is your regular roundup of the other stories that are making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook