What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Governors at Beeston Primary School are formally consulting on plans to leave the South Leeds Learning Trust, which links a number local primary schools with Cockburn School. In the consultation document, available on the school website, they say: “The aim of the Trust was to help children achieve more, providing
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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
Mystery surrounds Beeston Primary School’s plans to convert from being a local authority community school to becoming an academy. The school is currently undertaking a ‘consultation’ which closes on Wednesday (15 July 2015). However, South Leeds Life has spoken to parents, councillors and the Beeston Community Forum, none of whom
There has been a considerable amount of interest over the last few months in the new Lane End Primary School, currently being built in Beeston on the site of the old South Leeds Sports Centre, and which will be part of The Learning Trust (South Leeds) group of schools. The
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
A local history project is attempting to find the family of D Goodman, an ex pupil of Cockburn High School who attended the school during the Second World War. As previously reported on South Leeds Life, the Learning Trust (South Leeds) which includes Cockburn High School is running a
Lane End Primary, the new school to be built on the site of South Leeds Sports Centre, will receive its first intake of Reception children in September this year with the new building being completed by September 2015. The two form entry school will grow gradually with new
The Learning Trust (South Leeds) which includes Cockburn High School and six primary schools in Beeston and Middleton, has launched a project to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and they need your help. Organisers are interested in your family memories. They are keen
Lantern Festival in Cross Flatts Park Residents and school children will be lighting up Cross Flatts Park on Friday (13 December 2013) and singing Christmas Carols with the Salvation Army band. You are encouraged to bring a lantern or a light, but no candles or naked flames please. Refreshments