What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The GATE Community Resource Centre in Belle Isle hosted the inaugural Belle Isle 500 competition awards ceremony on Tuesday (5 December 2017). Belle Isle 500 is a short story competition for key stage 2 pupils in the area and this year involved pupils from Windmill Primary School, Low Road Primary
Music lessons at Windmill Primary School were given an international flavour on Friday (13 October 2017) as pupils are joined by two of the Master Trainers from the British Council’s music education initiative, World Voice. Around eighty children in Years 3-5 pupils from Windmill Primary School and Low Road Primary School came
Low Road and Windmill Primary Schools are very much involved with Radio Aire‘s Cash for Kids. Since November 2016 we have raised funds for Mission Christmas and 500 Faces and also taken part in their Superhero Day. The children at Low Road and Windmill have been very fortunate in receiving
The summer of community galas continues this weekend with Belle Isle Gala which kicks off at 11am on Saturday (1 July 2017) at Windmill Primary School on Windmill Road in Belle Isle. The Gala will be opened by the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Cllr Jane Dowson and the Guest of
Over 600 schoolchildren, including pupils at New Bewerley and Windmill primary schools, are getting ready to take to the stage at various venues throughout Yorkshire this month when they perform Opera North’s Big Sing. The pupils attend primary and secondary schools across the region. Children from New Bewerley Community School
Belle Isle TMO The Junior Green Team hit the streets of Belle Isle on another BITMO Walkabout! The Junior Green Team joined the monthly Belle Isle TMO Walkabout on a very windy, but sunny June morning around the Windmill and East Granges areas of Belle Isle. The Junior Green Team-
Writer Tony Gaughan and A Princess in Belle Isle gave its world premiere at the Belle Isle Summer Gala in July. The group are currently working with the Belle Isle History Group and pupils from Windmill Primary School on a Christmas play set in 1940s Belle Isle and rehearsals are
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
First of all, I must apologise for getting this blog onto the website two weeks late. Please take the time to have a look at the Gala Slideshow at the top of this blog. Arrived at The Belle Isle Gala 2016 after my parkrun, which started off to be a
A week-long festival of performance and music-making took place recently, as over 650 children from the Windmill and Low Road Music Federation celebrated the successful completion of Low Road Primary School’s first In Harmony year with Opera North. From concerts and a ceilidh in a ‘Big Top’ in the school