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.
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Year 1 Drama Workshop
Year 1 had a fabulous time when a special visitor came to see us from Leeds Playhouse.
14 July 2022
Year 1 Yorkshire Wildlife Park Trip
What a fantastic day we had at Yorkshire Wildlife Park!
14 July 2022
WEATHER WARNING
please ensure that your child comes to school with a hat, a refillable water bottle and suncream that is already applied.
13 July 2022
CoastLine and rubbish
We took part in a litter pick of the rubbish that we had created in our classroom from just one day!
30 June 2022
Welcome to our new Reception families
How wonderful this year to be able to invite our new families into school to talk about the start of their child's educational journey with us.
30 June 2022
1st Gardening Club
Today in Garden club, the children rejuvenated the planters with the old daffodil bulbs in.
30 June 2022
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shakespeareLS9 Summer holidays ✅ Shakespeare children still healthy and active ✅ resilience and determination on show ✅ everyone having a “wheely” good time ✅ 🚴♀️🚴🏅 https://t.co/0l7FRKGpW4
27 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 Year 3 had a bee-rilliant time when they visited the Burmantofts Senior Action group to tell them how important bees are. They acted out their own playscripts, told bee jokes and sang uplifting songs. Everyone was left positively buzzing! https://t.co/3iFljpKHKL
21 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 Nursery had a blast on their trip to the field and outdoor classroom! https://t.co/GSD0hJQw0O
21 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 Officially VERY HOT in LS9☀️☀️☀️Some interesting stats from the Shakespeare weather station where 40.4°C was recorded on 19.07.2022. Let’s hope it is never beaten. https://t.co/NqUYQoCwkj
19 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 It's too hot for our Nursery children to be outside today - so here is a lovely reminder of our minibeast hunt last week. Who knew so many little creatures lived in our trees?! With a white sheet below and a shake of the branches, what fabulous discoveries we made! 🐛🪲🐞 https://t.co/PV8GlejHTD
19 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 Another fantastic Sports Day throwback to last week when the weather was just right. Excellent teamwork, wonderful sporting comradery from our Reception children and lots of very proud parents ❤️ https://t.co/5XtSrZVsKg
19 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 What an amazing Sports Day Year 1 had! They celebrated each others success with mighty cheers and loved seeing their special grown ups racing against each other. We now know where the children get their competitiveness from! https://t.co/zf43XZriCh
19 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 Brilliant to see our Girls Football club sharpening their skills in their last session of the year. Miss Simcock is VERY proud of the girls and is already looking forward to next season. https://t.co/WKLITekX3l
18 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 Our Year 3 gardeners got a wonderful surprise when they dug up their veg patch this week… look at that pile of spuds! A lovely full circle moment after learning how bees help to pollinate potatoes in their ‘Grow and Flow’ project this half-term. #perfectpotatoes #chipsfortea https://t.co/JEEOmQIejy
16 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 What a fantastic afternoon we had for Year 2 Sports Day. We had lots of different races, including one for parents, which was very competitive! We even finished off the afternoon with everyone doing the 'Cha Cha Slide!' Thank you to all who came and made it a great afternoon! https://t.co/CVF8s0vEqX
15 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 Today, it was finally time for our fantastic fiver fair, where football, fondue and face paints were only a fraction on offer. Thank you to everyone who came along to support the day, now it’s time to count up those pennies and see how much we raised…drumroll please 🥁 https://t.co/5bbhE6LGgw
14 Jul 2022
shakespeareLS9 What a day we had @WestLeedsActiv yesterday! There aren’t enough superlatives available to describe the day, so we’ll let the smiles on these photos tell their own story. Thank you so much for an incredible celebration day for our Y6 cohort. We’ll 100% be back soon. https://t.co/9VFPuX6jH0
14 Jul 2022
