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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New Reception Outdoor Area
We are extremely lucky in Reception to have a brand new outdoor area to continue our learning experiences outside!
16 June 2021
City Cycling Connect
The ribbon has been cut on the latest dedicated cycling and walking infrastructure to be introduced in Leeds city centre!
16 June 2021
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
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shakespeareLS9 Our Curriculum of Excellence begins in Nursery. Stunning clay plates shaped, marked and painted. Beautiful! Burmantofts Pottery would be proud of them. #fromtheheartofLeeds https://t.co/d0MrRe8qah
18 Jun 2021
shakespeareLS9 5 years later and Jo Cox’s murder remains senseless, whilst the work she did, the causes she fought for and the things she said make more sense than ever #MoreInCommon https://t.co/3jvBZYF7HP
16 Jun 2021
shakespeareLS9 What a glorious day for our Year 4s to do some local history! We are so privileged to be a school in the heart of Leeds and be able to compliment our learning about the history of medicine in Leeds by visiting the very building which Florence Nightingale helped to establish! 1/2 https://t.co/G4UV3uKda3
16 Jun 2021
shakespeareLS9 This!!! 👇👇👇This right here is the dream. Taking a @LeedsPlayhouse show #FairyPoppins out to our brilliant #PartnerSchool @shakespeareLS9 Thank you for sharing these glorious photos. Wish we could do this every day! #ArtsForAll #CreativeEducation https://t.co/0vpcPqwskq
15 Jun 2021
shakespeareLS9 The shows must go on!!! An amazing performance from @LeedsPlayhouse of Fairy Poppins. What a joy to see and hear artists of the stage in our playground. #theartsmatter @ArtFormsLeeds https://t.co/avBBLHlJD0
15 Jun 2021
shakespeareLS9 No end to COVID restrictions but outdoor class photos must be a sign of normality returning. SMILE please😀😀😀☀️☀️ https://t.co/cx1Au1R41t
15 Jun 2021
shakespeareLS9 At Shakespeare, we love to investigate! This afternoon our year 4 children took a solid, mixed it with a liquid, gave it a little shake and produced a gas... an explosion of learning ensued! https://t.co/LkUTyCe45Q
27 May 2021
shakespeareLS9 Our Creative Writing After School Club have produced the goods! They’ve been inspired by the short animation ‘Alma’. Zoom in to be thoroughly impressed! #creativewriting #WritingCommunity https://t.co/xgomCBbOzF
26 May 2021
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
