Polio campaign blossoms at Yeadon school

Ten-year-old Josie Barber prepares to dig in.

10:30am Friday 15th October 2010

Yeadon schoolchildren are doing their bit to help a worldwide campaign to eradicate polio.

Froebelian pupils have a talent for fundraising

Pupils and staff of Froebelian School with the cheque.

4:00pm Thursday 14th October 2010

Schoolchildren in Horsforth have proved they’ve got talent and raised thousands of pounds to help save lives.

They're poets and they know it!

The winning poets of Rawdon St Peter's Primary School.

12:20pm Thursday 7th October 2010

Pupils from Rawdon St Peter’s Primary School topped the literary list of winners in this year’s children’s poetry competition for Ilkley Literature Festival.

St Mary's pupils spread the word on literacy

Pupils and staff from Menston St Mary's at No 10 Downing Street.

10:51am Thursday 7th October 2010

Pupils from St Mary’s School in Menston travelled to Downing Street to lobby for better literacy standards.

Library opens new chapter at Benton Park

Benton Park students try out the new library for size.

2:00pm Friday 1st October 2010

A “tardis-like” trans-formation has taken place at a school library over the summer.

Benton Park hosts careers fair

Pictured, from left, are Benton Park Technology College students Zak Hussain, Heather Baylis, Alistair Shelly-Edrich, Lily Wilson and Sam Carr.

11:56am Thursday 23rd September 2010

Benton Park Technology College at Rawdon will be running its first careers fair on Wednesday and Thursday, September 29 and 30.

Menston student engineers award success

Arkwright Scholarship winner Vicky Greenwood.

11:53am Thursday 23rd September 2010

A MENSTON schoolgirl is celebrating winning a prestigious engineering scholarship.

Fundraising walks all mapped out at Ghyll Royd

Children from Ghyll Royd School have been taking part in sponsored walking activities all week. Pictured, from left, Jessica van Beek, Alfie Weston, Lillaby Morse and Max Bradley.

11:45am Thursday 23rd September 2010

Children from a Burley-in-Wharfedale school will be putting their best foot forward today in a series of sponsored walks.

Rotary dictionary gifts open new chapter on learning

PRESENTATION: Children at Rufford Park School in Yeadon with their dictionaries.

11:00am Friday 13th August 2010

Youngsters in Horsforth and Aireborough were given the gift of learning when they were presented with illustrated dictionaries.

Youngsters help make it a special day for charity

HIGH NOTE: Pupils from Guiseley School get in the mood for the Transformation Trust bash.

10:20am Saturday 7th August 2010

Students from Guiseley School travelled to London to join thousands of pupils from all over the country in helping a children’s charity to celebrate its first birthday.

Fond farewells for teacher

LEAVING GIFT: Guiseley Infant and Nursery School teacher Susan Cooper presents the tree to headteacher Maxine Bell

10:00am Friday 6th August 2010

A teacher who was retiring from Guiseley Infant and Nursery presented the school with a tree as a leaving present.

Dance extravaganza was ‘fab’

Dance extravaganza was ‘fab’

9:50am Friday 6th August 2010

A group of youngsters were hit by dance fever in a week-long event in Yeadon.

Flowers for school’s unsung heroes – Jean and Jayne

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS: St Mary’s School, Menston, pupils Luke McGibbon and Olivia Rieley with Jean Kilvington.

10:00am Sunday 1st August 2010

A SCHOOL cook and caretaker are celebrating being voted “unsung heroes” by pupils in Menston.

It actually IS rocket science

10:00am Sunday 1st August 2010

Three physics students from Horsforth School will be heading off to Houston for the trip of a lifetime after winning a rocket competition.

Young gardeners are branching out

Green-fingered pupils from Horsforth School Horsforth School with town councillor Geoff Kneeshaw, left.

10:00am Saturday 31st July 2010

PUPILS from Horsforth School showed their horticultural skills when their school took part in a gardening competition.

Grand designs on display at school

Design and technology work by pupils at Horsforth School

11:00am Friday 30th July 2010

Pupils at Horsforth School put their skills on show with a display of their design and technology work.

Soccer event nets £300 for school

SCORING A BIG SUCCESS: History teacher Mr Middlemiss, Andrew Major, Sam Birkby, James Craggs, Richard Major, Barnaby Paver, Jonathan Missin, Katharine Missin, Ellie Preston and curriculum leader for geography Mr Lewis.

10:00am Friday 30th July 2010

A PARENT-organised World Cup prediction competition has raised £300 for an African school’s study garden.

Towering achievement for tall ship duo

SAIL ON: The Stavros S Niarchos passes under Tower Bridge.

10:00am Friday 30th July 2010

TWO teenagers from Menston are celebrating helping to successfully manoeuvre a tall ship under Tower Bridge in London.

Musical is just amazing

Pupils from All Saints C of E Primary School in Otley in their production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

10:00am Friday 30th July 2010

Children at an Otley school delighted parents and staff by putting on a truly ‘amazing’ end-of-year show.

Flowers for school’s unsung heroes – Jean and Jayne

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS: St Mary’s School, Menston, pupils Luke McGibbon and Olivia Rieley with Jean Kilvington.

9:30am Friday 30th July 2010

A SCHOOL cook and caretaker are celebrating being voted “unsung heroes” by pupils in Menston.

Fond farewell from teachers who started at same time

SAYING THEIR GOODBYES: Kath Ware and Liz Kirkpatrick with children from St Oswald’s CE Junior School, Guiseley at the annual teddy bears picnic.

11:32am Thursday 29th July 2010

Two teachers who joined a Guiseley school at the same time have retired together – 21 years on.

Seniors get greater say in school decision-making

MORE INVOLVED: Deputy head girl Manpreet Ryatt, head boy Kieron Mirchandani-Cooper, headteacher Janet Sheriff, head girl Abigail Hewitt and deputy head boy Matthew Trees.

10:40am Thursday 29th July 2010

SIXTH form students in Otley will be given the chance to play a more influential role when school re-starts this September.

Animal magic at Little School Pre School

Noah Hanson gets to know some of the animals at Little School Pre School's new sensory garden.

10:07am Friday 23rd July 2010

A Noah’S Ark-inspired sensory garden has been created in the heart of Burley-in-Wharfedale.

Pool teacher retires after 37 years

Richard Parker with some of the pupils from Pool C of E Primary where he has taught for the past 37 years.

3:00pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

The red carpet will be rolled out for teacher Richard Parker today when he retires after 37 years at Pool C of E Primary School.

Blue is the colour at Westgate Primary

Emily Buttery and Joe Ridgeway, both aged 10, go blue for the day.

2:35pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

A fundraising week has left children and staff at an Otley primary school anything but blue.

Rawdon St Peter's cricketers go all the way to national final

Pictured, from left, are Sam Baxter, Hollie Bell, George Butlet, Megan Brierley, Lawrence Rhodes, Hannah Brierley, Ross Jennings, Harrison Bromage and Matthew Wilson.

2:21pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

Talented young cricketers from Rawdon and Horsforth challenged the best young players in the country in a national final last week.

Burley Oaks head calls it a day

Roy Pallas is getting ready to leave Burley Oaks Primary for the last time.

2:15pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

A Wharfedale primary school is preparing to bid a fond farewell to the headteacher who has been with the school since the beginning.

Assistant head calls time at Burley & Woodhead

Burley & Woodhead Primary School deputy head Shirley Moffat with some of the pupils at the school where she has worked for the last 11 years.

2:12pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

Assistant headteacher Shirley Moffat will call time on a 35 year teaching career when she retires from Burley & Woodhead C of E Primary School tomorrow.

Pastures new for The Whartons head and deputy

James Vincent and Martin Campey with some of the pupils from The Whartons Primary School, Otley.

2:02pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

An Otley school is bracing itself for the end of an era when its headteacher and deputy head both retire this summer.

Benton Park athletes notch up winning performances

Benton Park’s stars of track and field, from left, Matthew Campleman, Sam Birch, Kate Walsh and Andy Smith.

9:40am Thursday 22nd July 2010

Students from Benton Park in Rawdon have been proving their athletic prowess with a series of winning performances.

Hope's school pals to help hospice

Hope Hargreaves, centre, and her friends Eleanor Dawson-Cox, and Suzi Heron persuaded staff at Horsforth School to submit to a sponge-throwing event.

8:39am Thursday 22nd July 2010

As a youngster, Hope Hargreaves gave her parents the will to carry on after they lost two daughters to a rare medical condition. And now the 12-year-old is helping other families by raising money for a children’s hospice.

Schools' partnership gets off to a flying start

From left, Ilkley Grammar deputy head, Adam Daly, Rossett School head Pat Hunter, Author Gervaise Phinn, Prince Henry’s Grammar head Janet Sheriff, and Harrogate Grammar head Richard Sheriff at Harewood House.

8:30am Friday 16th July 2010

Four ‘outstanding’ schools have chosen the successfully re-introduced bird of prey the red kite as the symbol for a partnership sharing good teaching practice.

Sparkling performances in Burley & Woodhead's Wild West play

Laura Donahue, 11, who played Louisiana May in The Lemonade Kid.

8:26am Friday 16th July 2010

The triumph of good over evil – and of fizzy drinks over weapons – has been celebrated in a Burley-in-Wharfedale school’s end-of-term play.

Island retreat for St Mary's Menston students

Students and staff from St Mary’s School in Menston during their recent visit to Lindisfarne.

8:21am Friday 16th July 2010

Students from St Mary’s School in Menston recently made the school’s traditional annual pilgrimage to the island of Lindisfarne following the recent exam period.

Winning floral designs from children in Yeadon, Horsforth, Rawdon and Otley

Tom Murray, Benton Park School Technology College, with his winning entry.

8:16am Friday 16th July 2010

Children from Horsforth and Aireborough were among those receiving prizes in a Leeds in Bloom competition.

World Cup inspires youngsters to make giant scarf petition their goal

Pupils from Burley Oaks show off their handiwork.

8:12am Friday 16th July 2010

The colours of the World Cup have inspired Wharfedale schoolchildren to create a vivid reminder to world leaders about their global responsibilities.

West End Primary pupils strike Olympic gold

8:09am Friday 16th July 2010

Children held a mini-Olympic Games in a week-long event at a Horsforth school.

Everything in the garden’s rosy for Froebelian's model pupils

Plasticine flowers made by pupils at Horsforth's Froebelian School.

10:07am Thursday 15th July 2010

Artificial flowers created by Horsforth schoolchildren are to be displayed at Royal Horticultural Society gardens in Yorkshire.

Lily’s so thrilled with first novel, she’s working on sequel

Author Lily Leadbeater, a pupil at All Saints Primary School, Otley, with her story she has had published shares it with friends, from left, Patrick Blake, Ruth Selina, Hannah Lee, and Matthew Cleghorn, who are all aged 11.

2:50pm Thursday 8th July 2010

An 11-year-old girl has just completed her first novel – and is already hard at work on the sequel.

Film star Matthew goes back to school for awards night

Matthew Lewis presents the Jamie Payne Ross Award for outstanding achievement in sport to year 8 student Edward Hollingsworth.

2:30pm Thursday 8th July 2010

The appearance of a Harry Potter star helped visitors enjoy a magic time at a Menston school’s awards ceremony.

Lollipop woman has job licked after 25 years

Crossing controller Lesley Moore.

2:26pm Thursday 8th July 2010

It was a case of Moore the merrier for a Rawdon lollipop woman as she celebrated 25 years in the job.

Benton Park anniversary celebrated in style

Pupils at Benton Park School tried Bollywood dancing under the guidance of Salma Zaman.

1:54pm Thursday 8th July 2010

Comedian Billy Pearce met up with old classmates at a big celebration marking the 50th birthday of Rawdon’s Benton Park School.

All the fun of the fair at Pool Primary

Elliott Riddish gets the wet sponge treatment from Alex Jones-Gerrard and Samuel Parsons.

11:21am Thursday 8th July 2010

The young and young at heart have enjoyed all the fun of the fair at Pool CE Primary School.

Students meet author on day new book is launched

Megan, Faizan and Caroline were just some of the pupils to spend time with author L J Adlington.

11:10am Thursday 8th July 2010

Wharfedale students have enjoyed meeting an award-winning author.

Pupils take to the stage as schools join forces to take anti-racism pledge

RESPECT: Clockwise from top left, Lewis Suttle, Alisha Patel, Charley Sharp, Tara Thompson, Maisie Dixon and Naomi Kelly, were among pupils from Ashfield Primary School performed an anti-racism play at Otley Courthouse.

10:14am Thursday 1st July 2010

A PUBLIC pledge to respect everyone and combat racism has been taken by pupils and staff from all of the Otley ‘family of schools’.

All Saints pupils get their eye in for welly wanging contest

Thomas Paxton gets in some practice

9:54am Thursday 1st July 2010

THE ancient sport of ‘welly wanging’ will be one of the highlights at a joint summer fair in Otley this weekend.

Georgina makes school fashionable - with a little help from her friends

Georgina makes school fashionable - with a little help from her friends

9:48am Thursday 1st July 2010

A group of schoolgirls are making their mark on the fashion world after setting their own company.

Guiseley pole vaulter aims to hit the heights

Andy Russell

9:44am Thursday 1st July 2010

Pole vaulter Andy Rusell will be aiming high in this weekend’s English Schools Athletics Championships in Birmingham. The Guiseley School student achieved a personal best of 3 metres when representing Leeds in the West Yorkshire Championships to clinch his place in the premier schools athletics event. He school colleagues Hannah Brown ran in the 3,000m and Ellie Denton contested the triple jump in the West Yorkshire Championships and like Andy they won their events.

Pupils have day of fun on their bikes

Pupils have day of fun on their bikes

9:41am Thursday 1st July 2010

YOUNG cyclists from five Otley primary schools are celebrating completing a fun-packed return trip to Almscliffe Crag.

Primary school pupils get road safety test

David Robson is Otley's latest honorary citizen.

9:23am Thursday 1st July 2010

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