Tag: Middleton Primary School

Skelton Grange centre gets ready for Climate Week 2013

The Conservation Volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Leeds are gearing up for Britain’s biggest climate change campaign: Climate Week is a supercharged national campaign which aims to inspire a new wave of action on climate change. It culminates with thousands of events and activities taking place throughout the

Scarecrow festival with a difference

‘Retired’ minister and festival organiser Jean Mortimer send us details of a recent Scarecrow Bible Festival in Belle Isle … As part of our harvest celebrations we held a Scarecrow Bible Festival at The United Reformed Church in South Leeds (that’s the new building in Nesfield Road). Adults, children and young

Pupils on the ball for South Leeds football tournament organised by police

Lads and lasses from six South Leeds primary schools battled it out in a blistering 7-a-side football tournament organised by the area’s Neighbourhood Policing Team. Middleton Park Councillors Paul Truswell, Kim Groves and Judith Blake provided funding for the event, which also included play equipment for those not engaged on

It’s the big launch of Middleton Life local history project this week!

A group of South Leeds residents have become local history reporters and investigated the rich past of their community. The hard work of Members of the Middleton Life project will be celebrated at a special event at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre on Thursday, July 12 when exhibition panels they’ve helped

Middleton Life: Planning starts on exhibition panels

Members of the Middleton Life local history project yesterday began planning the panels which will form a permanent focus at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre. The project, which will end in June with an official unveiling of the panels, sees members of the community learning about the history of Middleton through

Middleton Park trip: Well, it rained….!

Intrepid members of the Middleton Life local history project resumed their activities tracking down the history of their community by getting soaking wet on a fact-finding trip to Middleton Park and Woods yesterday! By gum, did it rain! Everyone was soaked to the skin as they spent an hour and a