What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
New Bewerley Community School’s hard work and dedication to the arts has been recently rewarded with their second Artsmark Platinum award, the only primary school in West Yorkshire to be granted such an accolade. New Bewerley is a whirling snail of creativity on the edge of the city centre. A
Four South Leeds schools could benefit from Opera North’s fundraising push ‘Let Music Inspire’ and donations next week will be doubled. For one week only from Tuesday 19 March, every donation made towards Opera North’s ‘Let Music Inspire’ campaign will be matched pound for pound thanks to the Big Give’s
New Bewerley Community School in Beeston has retained strong links with The World Reimagined (TWR) after winning the prized TWR Bursary sponsored by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The school was fortunate to welcome two artists in residence into the school: Sarah Jane Mason and Ladel Bryant to teach and promote
Ofsted has said that New Bewerley Community School in Beeston ‘Requires Improvement’, despite ‘Good’ judgements in four out of five areas. The school was inspected on 20 and 21 September and the report has been published today (17 October 2023). The inspectors praise many aspects of the school describing it
Voting is open in the election to decide who will be the next Leeds Children’s Mayor and South Leeds has two candidates on the 12-strong shortlist. Elsie from Hunslet Carr Primary School is campaigning on the issue of food poverty, whilst Keyla from New Bewerley Community School in Beeston’s manifesto
“The school’s In Harmony initiative has a significant and positive impact on many aspects of pupils’ learning and wellbeing” Low Road Primary School Ofsted report, 2018 Over 2,500 children currently given the opportunity to sing and play an instrument during curriculum time every week 1,550 orchestral instruments donated free to
Tracey Cunningham, 56, has retired today (23 July 2021) from New Bewerley Community School after 28 years working in Beeston, first at Greenwood Primary, then at New Bewerley Community School. She says she has enjoyed every minute of it and met some amazing pupils, families and colleagues. Tracey had always
New Bewerley Community School in Beeston has just been awarded the Platinum Artsmark rating for their provision of cultural education. And they are the only primary school in West Yorkshire to receive the highest award. The Artsmark Award is a creative quality standard for schools, accredited by Arts Council England.
Staff at New Bewerley Community School in Beeston have set themselves the task of ensuring every child in school, all 420, gets a Christmas present this year. Jemma Seavers, Learning Mentor and lead person for Child Protection and Safeguarding at the school, told South Leeds Life: “I am hoping to
A new book which aims to warn children, and their parents, about the dangers of loan sharks was launched on Friday (11 October 2019) at New Bewerley Community School in Beeston. As we reported last December, Leeds City Council’s Dewsbury Road Community Hub was awarded a grant by the England