What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
With the start of the new school year, over 1,000 pupils each week will now be benefiting from Opera North’s award-winning In Harmony community residency as the Company introduces the project into a third primary school in South Leeds. In Harmony was created with the aim of enriching lives, improving
Pupils at New Bewerley Community School in Beeston have joined the Children’s University in a partnership with Leeds Trinity University. Phil Hardy from Trinity visited the school yesterday (23 May 2016) to give out passports to the first 21 children who have signed up for the scheme. Children use the
Our story about aliens landing at New Bewerley Community School caught a lot of attention this week. The story’s been viewed nearly 3,000 times. We usually only get that sort of traffic for crime, planning or jobs reports. It can’t have hurt to have the word ‘alien’ in the headline,
Staff in protection suits patrolled the playground after a mysterious object was discovered at New Bewerley Community School in Beeston this morning, Monday 23 November 2015. Children were keen to investigate but were kept back whilst the object was investigated. Headteacher Gary German told children in assembly that he wasn’t
The range of professions involved in building new council homes on the housing regeneration project have been brought to life in artwork created by local pupils. New ‘building brighter futures’ banners displaying the posters created by New Bewerley Community School pupils are now on show at a Beeston site where
It’s the end of term for school children and this week also marks the end of my term as a school governor. I joined the Temporary Governing Body of the new school for West Hunslet eleven years ago. Over the next two years I was involved in choosing a design
Leeds City Council Inner South Community Committee Artwork on lampposts brighten up Dewsbury Road. School children from 3 local primary schools have been working with The Tetley to design banners for the lampposts along Dewsbury Road in Beeston. The first 16 banners were installed last week and have been designed
Three South Leeds organisations have been shortlisted for Child Friendly Awards which will be announced at a ceremony later this month on Thursday 29 January 2015. The Works Skatepark in Hunslet and Belle Isle Family Centre have both been shortlisted in the Best Place in Leeds for Children and Young
Pupils from New Bewerley Community School in Beeston were part of a group of youngsters performing Shakespeare at the West Yorkshire Playhouse last Monday (14 July 2014). The Year 4 children (aged 8-9) joined with others from Rufford Park and Horsforth Newlaithes primary schools to perform a story drawn
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start this week with more previews of the Leeds Waterfront Festival which takes place at various venues including Leeds Dock in Hunslet on Saturday and Sunday (28 & 29 June 2014).