Reading Excellence from the Heart of Leeds
Reading together at home is one of the easiest but most important ways in which you can help your child. As you share books you are helping improve your child’s reading skills and also showing them how important and enjoyable reading is and help them become lifelong readers.
Click here for a range of activities that can support your child in reading at home.
“Reading suffuses the life of the school.” OFSTED
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Beast Creator Memorable Experience
children in years 5 and 6 wanted to find out what other living things thrive and survive on our school grounds
17 May 2021
Y5 & Y6 Visit to Skelton Grange
Year 5 and Year 6 children have had the chance to visit the wonderful Skelton Grange.
13 May 2021
Wheelie Good Food
During the second week of the Easter holidays, our children had the exciting opportunity to take part in the “Wheelie Good Food Club”.
26 April 2021
3-4's Tea Party
3-4's Nursery kicked off their new 'Come to my Tea Party' learning project
22 April 2021
6F Radio news report
6F have created and recorded a radio news report based on their background knowledge on Sir Isaac Newton.
20 April 2021
West Yorkshire Playhouse comes to Shakespeare!
Throughout the month of March Year 6 had the opportunity to have weekly drama sessions with a Drama Specialist.
31 March 2021
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shakespeareLS9 What a day Year 5 had last week @SkeltonGrange. There were smiles for miles as we finally made it out on a school trip, developing our understanding of life-cycles, invertebrates and how they affect our world. Now where are those minibeasts? https://t.co/qt146Qr0cG
16 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Launching today: #StepInsideYourStory Anyone can be an author or the star of a story & we’re asking children across the UK to make concertina books about themselves. View ‘how to’ films by favourite authors & illustrators before starting your own book: https://t.co/ObhoMmoKaw https://t.co/BWhegDRQEm
24 Feb 2021
shakespeareLS9 It’s Thursday which means after school life is buzzing away! We’ve got computer coding club, art club, chess club and read around the world club all taking place on our Y5/6 corridor and netball is out on the MUGA. When they don’t even notice you arrive, you know they’re engaged! https://t.co/09iNmYsFjj
13 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 We are healthy and active! What a day for it! ☀️☀️☀️ #breaktime #shakespearepromise @LeedsActiveSchs https://t.co/1OKq5UVsFf
13 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Mrs Fairbank’s Year 2 class brought Mr Gorton some wormy spaghetti lunch today. They were very excited to see him taste it.... #bringingbooksalive @book-trust https://t.co/MpO2sox8ld
13 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Ingredients for a perfect Potions day in Year 4: a curious mind, a couple of felt tips, some plastic bottles, a whole lot of fun and the excellent @snowd99 to link all of the practical science to our learning about states of matter this half term! The faces say it all! 🧪😃👏🏼 https://t.co/Znu141MEbH
12 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Warming up our brains before school with a game of chess. Checkmate to Ilda this time. Inspired by our great lessons from @chessinschools #curriculumofexcellence https://t.co/JeefSGYUnW
11 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Inspirational writing by our Year 6 scribes. Showing excellence in their skills and effort. Impressive!!!! https://t.co/HXhHgLyDnY
07 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Incredible artistic skills developed over the past few weeks in year 4, where we’ve been learning how to create Batik and creating artwork inspired by the Blue Abyss! 🌍🐢🐙🐠🌊🖼😍 https://t.co/r1A6dPHh0T
07 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Everyone’s included at Shakespeare with our children in 4D learning how to sort solids, liquids and gases on a Friday afternoon! #cornerstones #potions https://t.co/31iShCA0pW
07 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Is it a birch? Is it a ✈️? No... it’s a lime tree. Here’s 6P identifying trees around our wonderful grounds as part of our Beast Creator project. We created a map & key of any habitats we found including fox holes, bird nests and a heap of invertebrates. Now for classification! https://t.co/LF6tkEJ27f
07 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 We’re at the wonderful @SkeltonGrange! Shakespeare is FINALLY back on tour. Here’s 5L learning all about plant parts and germination. Those smiles speak volumes @TCVtweets #tripsareback https://t.co/PV5cCKmaWn
04 May 2021
