Latest news

We will update this page to let you know what is going on in School. For individual class news, check out the class pages.

• Easter Egg Decorating Competition Winners

  Mon 03 Apr 2017

  Congratulations to all of our winners of the Easter Egg competition. And well done to everyone who entered. Have a good Easter break.

  

• Library Reading Challenge

  Tue 28 Mar 2017

  Over the Easter holiday, we are running a competition (along with our Leeds East Trust partners) to see which of the school can get the most children going to the library.  We want as many of our pupils as possible to visit the library 5 times over the Easter holidays.  The library also has special events on over Easter, including Lego Challenges.

   

  

• Easter egg Competition & Book Sale

  Tue 28 Mar 2017

  We running our ever popular Easter egg decorating competition. All entries in by Friday this week and prizes will be given in assembly on Friday.

   

  On Thursday we are having a Mega £1 book sale.  All the books are brand new and have all been discounted to £1. The book sale starts before school at 8:30 am in the small hall. Because of limited supply sales will be limited to 1 book per child.

• World Book Day

  Sun 05 Mar 2017
  This week we celebrated World Book Day in school. We had a fantastic dressing up competition in KS1 and almost everyone got dressed up. Well done to the winners, who each got a book from the Book Fair. We also had two authors in. Andy Seed came to speak to Key Stage 2 and Stephen Waterhouse came in to talk to Key Stage 1. 

  

• Take 10 minutes!

  Thu 26 Jan 2017

  Take 10 to Read!

   

  This year we are making a special effort to encourage pupils to read more at home. Check out our updated reading page. 

  

• Children in Need

  Tue 29 Nov 2016

  Children in Need.

   

  Well done to everyone who supported  our Children in Need events. We raised £1,114.93, which will be split between Children in Need (£558.00) and the NSPCC (556.93). Again many thanks, that is a fantastic total.

• School reopens Monday 31st October

  Sun 23 Oct 2016

  REMINDER:

  School reopens 8:50am Monday 31st October

   

  School will be closed for a training day on Monday 7th November and will reopen as usual at 8:50am on Tuesday 8th November.

   

• Black History Assemblies

  Sun 23 Oct 2016
  Many thanks to all those who attended our Black History Month Assemblies last week.  I'm sure everyone will agree that, as ever, Beechwood pupils excelled themselves in their presentations of what they had learnt. 

• No Pens Day

  Mon 10 Oct 2016

  No Pens day Wednesday was a great success with over a hundred parents attending.  We all had fun doing the quiz in the community garden and everyone enjoyed the mobile farm. A big thank you to everyone who came. 

   

   

  

• Times Table Challenge

  Sat 17 Sep 2016

  Have you checked out the new Times Table Challenge for years 2-6? Check on the home page  under Children > Times Table Challenge to download the practice sheets, or click here.