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Actress-turned-teacher takes pupils behind the scenes

9:36am Thursday 14th July 2011

A former Emmerdale actress turned teacher has treated her pupils to a unique look at life behind the scenes of the popular soap.

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Fundraising is a piece of cake at Yeadon Westfield

9:00am Saturday 9th July 2011

Primary school pupils made a healthy profit for charity when they took part in an Apprentice-style project.

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Horsforth children celebrate Refugee Week

11:17am Thursday 7th July 2011

Children from a Horsforth school took part in a celebration of Refugee Week in Leeds.

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Yeadon pupils watch their new school take shape

10:44am Thursday 30th June 2011

Excited children in Yeadon are seeing their new school being built before their very eyes.

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United in top achievement at St Mary's

10:30am Thursday 16th June 2011

Talented young sportsman James Cape, right, is all smiles as he receives the Jamie Payne-Ross award from Leeds United footballer Aidan White, left.

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Hat's off to Menston Primary's creative children

10:24am Thursday 16th June 2011

Hat’s nice! Pupils at Menston Primary School used their heads to show off the hats they designed to mark the visit of a book fair.

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Guiseley School pupils put their work on show

9:27am Thursday 16th June 2011

Art, design and technology took centre stage as a school demonstrated its pupils’ talents this week.

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Guiseley students taste success

11:40am Saturday 4th June 2011

The culinary skills of pupils from Guiseley have earned them a runner-up spot in an inter-schools young chef competition.

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Play area opens thanks to Masonic donation

11:55am Thursday 2nd June 2011

A multi-use games area has been opened at a Guiseley special school – thanks to a £20,000 donation.

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Froebelian netball team triumphs again

11:48am Thursday 2nd June 2011

Netballer players from the Froebelian School, at Horsforth, have triumphed for the second year in a Leeds competition.

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Rachel has designs on a colourful prize

11:38am Thursday 2nd June 2011

Teenager Rachel Stephenson showed off her artistic skills when she won the Horsforth In Bloom poster competition.

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ELP drummer to run drum circles at Guiseley School

11:40am Thursday 2nd June 2011

Carl Palmer, the drummer from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, will show a few tricks of the trade to children in Aireborough in June.

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Rawdon St Peter’s Primary School pupils get taste of Victorian classroom

3:10pm Sunday 29th May 2011

Youngsters were given a taste of life in a Victorian classroom as part of their school’s 150th birthday.

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School’s computer games are just the business, say pupils

11:37am Thursday 3rd February 2011

Young innovators from Arthington and Horsforth have teamed up with school friends to form a company to sell the computer game they helped produce.

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Guiseley students explore internet trading

11:20am Monday 31st January 2011

Students from Guiseley School learned about trading online during a session with a company.

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Young athletes join Terriers

10:08am Thursday 27th January 2011

Two Horsforth schoolboys have been picked to represent West Yorkshire in a ‘Fun in Athletics’ event.

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Insight into the world of engineering

11:00am Thursday 13th January 2011

About 60 young people learned about the world of engineering in a pioneering roadshow at Guiseley School.

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St Mary's pupils earn engineering acclaim

8:40am Thursday 30th December 2010

THE creation of a machine that mirrors the actions of a medical robot has earned Menston students a place in the next stage of a national competition.

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Cancer charity gets a £500 boost from grammar pupils

12:04pm Thursday 23rd December 2010

An Ilkley boy and a Bramhope boy were among pupils who raised more than £500 for the Candlelighters charity.

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There’s snow business like showbusiness

12:02pm Thursday 23rd December 2010

You can have too much of a good thing – as the cast of Horsforth School’s Christmas production of A Christmas Carol found to their cost when they hired a snow machine.

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Wizard treat for pupils as acting legend pays a visit to Otley

10:58am Thursday 23rd December 2010

‘GANDALF’ took a break from Middle Earth to visit an Otley school this week.

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Big-hearted Ghyll Royd pupils do their bit for others

7:42am Thursday 16th December 2010

CHILDREN entered into the festive spirit by donating their own toys to disadvantaged youngsters for Christmas.

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Menston St Mary's comedy caper is in a good cause

10:41am Friday 3rd December 2010

The Mad Hatter, Postman Pat and blue-skinned characters from the hit film Avatar turned up for class in an effort to raise thousands of pounds for good causes.

Yeadon Westfield pupils put their skills on show

10:30am Friday 3rd December 2010

Primary school pupil Kaitlin Bennett impressed the judges with her artistic skills when she came third in an international competition.

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Family keeps up fundraising tradition with flood effort

7:50am Wednesday 1st December 2010

Relatives of a man who founded an international aid initiative have done their own bit to bring emergency supplies to the flood-hit regions of Pakistan.

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Menston pupils get a taste of industry at Ilkley factory

8:50am Tuesday 30th November 2010

STUDENTS from Menston have been seeing at first hand how one of the area’s largest manufacturers works.

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Two schools in top 100

11:02am Friday 26th November 2010

Two independent prep schools in Ilkley and Horsforth have made it into an elite national league of the top 100.

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Culture club at Menston PS

3:46pm Friday 19th November 2010

Menston children have been learning some of the secrets of Indian dancing.

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Otley youngsters get a taste of the Caribbean

8:46am Friday 19th November 2010

THE food and music of the Caribbean have been winning fans at an Otley school.

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Tranmere Park pupils help the needy

10:20am Monday 15th November 2010

Children at Tranmere Park Primary have been doing their bit to help the homeless and needy.

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Benton Park puts Aids charity CDs on sale

12:25pm Thursday 11th November 2010

CDs for an Aids charity have gone on sale after a teacher from Benton Park spent three months in South Africa.

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Rawdon students plan trip to Morocco

12:36pm Thursday 4th November 2010

Sixth formers are organising their own Christmas fair to fund an expedition to Morocco.

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Winning team are jumping for joy

12:32pm Thursday 4th November 2010

The running, jumping and throwing skills of pupils from Burley-in-Wharfedale have helped them win an area-wide inter-school competition.

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School’s harvest gifts help the homeless

12:00pm Friday 29th October 2010

Trolley-loads of food are on their way to homeless people in Bradford after a harvest celebration in Burley-in-Wharfedale.

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The bear necessities

7:00am Friday 29th October 2010

A Burley-in-Wharfedale school pupil was Boyle-d over when he won the first prize in a special competition.

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Children urged to play it safe

3:00pm Thursday 28th October 2010

Children in Guiseley have received some special advice about major gas works taking place near their school.

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Full steam ahead for Rawdon youngsters

10:00am Monday 25th October 2010

Rawdon St Peter’s School has officially opened its new community building.

Rocking way for Otley pupils to spend holidays

10:00am Sunday 24th October 2010

Students in Otley will get the chance to ‘rock out’ next week. The School of Rock And Pop is holding a Monsters of Rock workshop at Prince Henry’s Grammar School during the half-term holiday.

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Talented drummer Jack is a cymbal of success

9:50am Friday 22nd October 2010

An Ilkley student drummed up support for contemporary music lessons across Wharfedale this week.

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Queensway pupils dig in for campaign

9:30am Friday 22nd October 2010

Children from Queensway Primary School in Yeadon have planted crocuses to highlight a campaign to eradicate polio.

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Horsforth head in running for national award

9:34am Thursday 21st October 2010

The headmaster of a school in Horsforth is one of three finalists in the running for a national award.

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Guiseley School’s Hamlet no Bard thing

12:10pm Saturday 16th October 2010

Pupils from Guiseley School gave the best performance of Hamlet in a festival’s ten-year history.

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