Music Concert

          This week students enjoyed an afternoon of musical entertainment as w

School Themes for March

Here are the school priorities for this month: Adults: Make sure you give the more able more deman

Leeds Silver Doves play NEEC Leeds and Music For Youth Bradford

On January 4th 2012 Leeds Silver Doves [advanced Leeds citywide youth steelband] played for the Nort

 

Music Concert

March 9, 2012 in Music, Uncategorized

 

 

 

 

 

This week students enjoyed an afternoon of musical entertainment as we welcomed ‘The Rest of the Best’ into school.  The concert involved musicians from Artforms who had prepared a variety of musical performances involving as many instruments as they could; keyboards violins, flutes, saxophones, guitars, drums, recorders, bongos, steel pans, vocals and even a cows horn, featured in what was a hugely enjoyable and entertaining afternoon. 

Students from City of Leeds were also able to join in with the professionals, with three year 8 violinists, a year 11 percussionist and year 10 and 11 singers all joining in the performance, not to mention all the dancing, clapping and singing along!

 

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School Themes for March

March 2, 2012 in Parents, Uncategorized, Useful Information

Here are the school priorities for this month:

Adults:

  • Make sure you give the more able more demanding work at least two sub levels higher
  • Don’t let attendance drop in your tutor group – don’t stand for lateness to class
  • Use and ‘play’ with the words given to us by AKG

Students:

  • Always have a go at the harder work – stretching yourself will bring faster progress
  • Don’t let your attendance drop – 92% OR MORE is what you need to do well
  • Look for opportunities to use those new words given to you by your tutor!

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Leeds Silver Doves play NEEC Leeds and Music For Youth Bradford

February 24, 2012 in Music

On January 4th 2012 Leeds Silver Doves [advanced Leeds citywide youth steelband] played for the North of England Education Conference in the Savile Rooms at Leeds Royal Armouries. Seven of the eight Doves were present or ex-City of Leeds School students. They played for 2 hours as delegates arrived at the conference. Conference organiser, Mark Hopkins and Business manager Suzanne Caine wrote:

We are writing to thank you for your fantastic performance at the above conference which delighted our delegates as they arrived.   It was impossible to listen to your wonderful playing without feeling revitalised and uplifted.  You provided a fantastic welcome to the conference and we hope you enjoyed the experience.

On February 8th 2012 Leeds Silver Doves were invited to play the Bradford Primary Prom for Music For Youth. The event which was open to all primary schools in Bradford was at St George’s Hall. Compere for the day was Barney from Children’s TV, which, for two Doves was possibly more exciting than playing at this national event. . This time six of the eight players were present or ex COLS students.

 

Band leader is Steel Pan Development Officer for Leeds ArtForms and City of Leeds Music teacher: Victoria Jaquiss, and assistant leaders: Bex Ainge, Joe Mooney and Natalie Marks – all from Leeds ArtForms.

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Leading Edge Issue 3

February 20, 2012 in Curriculum, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, News, Uncategorized, Useful Information

Here is the latest edition of our school newsletter, ‘Leading Edge’.  Please follow the link below to see the latest news from City of Leeds School……….

Leading Edge Issue 3

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School Themes for February

February 6, 2012 in Curriculum, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Useful Information

Here are our school themes for this month -

Things for adults to work on in school:

  • Different bird different diet!  Remember the pigeon
  • Keep using the new behaviour logging system
  • From the EAL or writing training use ONE technique this month

 Things for pupils to work on in school:

  • Take pride in your work.  Make it neat and do your best writing
  • Check you can SAY and SPELL the keywords for different subjects
  • Look at the advice your teachers give you in your books.  Make sure you do what they say!

 

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Primary Pans!

February 3, 2012 in Curriculum, Key Stage 3, Music, Parents

On Thursday 2nd February City of Leeds hosted a joint rehearsal on the Steel Pans for local primary schools.  These schools have been working with Victoria Jaquiss to learn the Steel Pans.  They are entering ‘Music for Youth’ as a joint performance.  This rehearsal provided the opportunity for Blenheim, Quarry Mount and Shire Oak primary schools to rehearse together. 

The rehearsal involved nearly one hundred students, teachers and parents rehearsing on Steel Pans, djembes, glockenspiels, and percussion for an audience of City of Leeds students.  The afternoon was full of energy and excitement and we would like to wish all the primary schools involved “Good Luck!”

 

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Leeds Youth Opera come to City

February 2, 2012 in Drama, Music, Uncategorized

On Wednesday 1st February City of Leeds welcomed Leeds Youth Opera into school.  Students from years 7 and 8 were introduced to their new performance ‘The Poisoned Kiss’ looking at the plot and characters through a variety of music, drama and dance workshops and costume design. 

 

 

Students worked really hard and we were really impressed with the effort and talents of the students.  There may be some opera singer within us yet!

 

 

We will be visiting the theatre next week to see the Leeds Youth Opera performance and are really looking forward to seeing the performance brought to life. 

 

 

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I Robot!

February 2, 2012 in Key Stage 3, Science

‘Forward…back…oh no, too far!’

Just some of the comments heard from pupils in the Bright Sparks STEM club who were thrilled by doing Robotics this week. Using facilities in the Derek Fatchett CLC, pupils explored how to programme robots to follow commands and how to learn from their experiences.

Everyone really enjoyed learning how to use the robots and have started on a series of challenges to test their programming skills. We really like the victory dance that the robots can be programmed to do when we have finished the challenge successfully!

Unlike the robots on Robot Wars, which are just remote controlled, these are proper robots with sensors that you can programme to adapt to different situations. We are looking forward to more difficult challenges with the robots over the next couple of weeks.

Bright Sparks is open to all KS3 pupils on Thursdays from 3-4pm, meeting in B42 from 2.45pm onwards. See Ms Whittaker for more details.

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Northern Ballet Visit

January 24, 2012 in Drama, Music, Uncategorized

On Thursday 19th January students from the year 9 Performing Arts class visited the Northern Ballet.  Students were able to see short pieces from famous Northern Ballet performances including, Beauty and the Beast, The Nutcracker and Madame Butterfly.  They were then able to meet some of the dancers and the Artistic Director of Northern Ballet who introduced the pieces and explained the inspiration behind his work before answering questions from the students.  The afternoon was inspiring and entertaining and will also be of great benefit to the students BTEC work.  

A dancer from Northern Ballet will be coming into school at the end of this half term to lead a dance workshop with students from our year 9 and 10 Perfoming Arts classes, which we are very excited about!

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Latest maths results

January 18, 2012 in Maths

Congratulations to our second group of Year 11s who have just received their GCSE Maths Grades.

Having now exceeded our target for Maths passes this year, and with the next group sitting exams this week and in June we are hoping for our best results ever!

With students in years 9 and 10 having already started to accrue top grades, and more about to sit further exams, the future for Maths passes is looking bright.

Good luck to all our students, well done so far and keep up the hard work in the final drive to GCSE success!

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