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• Trust Book Week

  Tue 23 Jan 2018
  A Trust Book Week was held in November.  All schools took part in some exciting reading activities.  Pictures can be found on the Gallery under the Parents and Children tab.

• Michael Rosen met children from LEPP at Cross Gates Primary School

  Mon 27 Nov 2017

  We were absolutely delighted to welcome Michael Rosen, celebrated children's author to Cross Gates Primary School on Monday 27th November.  Photographs taken on the day can be found in the Gallery under the Parents and Children tab.

• Seacroft Grange Primary School events during Trust Book Week.

  Tue 21 Nov 2017
  Seacroft Grange held a bedtime stories session and reading in strange places competition during Trust Book Week.   Photographs of the events can be found in the Gallery under the Parents and Children tab.

• Danile Ingram-Brown author of The Firebird Chronicles visited White Laith Primary School during Trust Book Week.

  Mon 13 Nov 2017
  Photos taken on the day can be found in the Gallery under the Parents & Children tab.

• Welcome to new trainee staff teachers

  Tue 05 Sep 2017
  We will be welcoming ten trainee teachers from Leeds Trinity University in September 2017.

• School Direct Programme

  Mon 19 Jun 2017

  We have recruited 9 trainee teachers for 2017/18 on the School Direct Programme in conjuction with Leeds Trinity University.

  All this years trainee teachers have secured jobs for Sept 2017.

• Communication Friendly Status

  Tue 16 May 2017
  All our schools have now received 'Communication Friendly Status'.

• Booklist for parents

  Tue 31 Jan 2017
  A booklist has been created to help support parents and children when selecting age appropriate books to read at home. A copy of the booklist can be found under the 'Parents and Children' tab.

• Debating Event

  Mon 22 Feb 2016

  A debating event was held at the Civic Hall where children from each school demonstrated their debating skills in front of a large audience.  

• Kagan Training Day

  Fri 08 Jan 2016

  In November Teachers from all schools met for a Kagan training day to learn simple fun structures to be used as part of every lesson to support pupil engagement, co-operation, learning behaviours and spoken language.

   

  Teacher feedback of the course was overwhelmingly positive with the vast majority of staff finding the day very useful. Typical comments were "Excellent content, good variety of strategies" and "I gained lots of new ideas to bring to my classroom". 

   

  Our schools have chosen four key Kagan approaches to embed within our lessons.  There is already good evidence of the impact of these strategies on pupil independence and co-operation.

   

  The work also ties in closely with our key objective for this year i.e. Improving communication through spoken language development.