Schools

Discover Leeds This Winter: Festive Fun for Children & Families 2025

The festive period is back and we are excited to bring you the Child Friendly Leeds Winter guide, giving you free and low-cost ideas of things to do across the city.

Spreading Joy This Season in South Leeds: Champions Community partner with Scent Salim for Local Children

This winter season, partners brought smiles and warmth to the community by gifting 120 beautifully curated gift bags to children. Each bag was thoughtfully packed by Scent Salim with perfume and scents, sweet treats, and books from the BookTrust – a perfect blend of joy, learning, and fragrance.

Wish 11 – Leeds Heritage Theatres puts young people at the heart of creative careers

Leeds Heritage Theatre’s innovative work experience program offers young people a chance to feel inspired and valued as they explore various arts industry roles. Through practical activities and direct engagement with employees, students will gain confidence and motivation to pursue a creative career.

Leeds Young Carers Support Services’ – Spotlight on Wish 10

Contact Leeds Young Carers Support Service to find out more about the Young Carer Friendly programme and how you can get involved.

The Child Friendly Leeds 2025 Autumn Guide with Half-Term events

Leeds Half-Term October – What to do with the family this half term

Weaving trauma-informed approaches through learning and education settings – Wish 10 in Leeds

Compassionate Leeds is set up to support schools and education settings across the city as they work toward becoming more trauma-informed. This will enable settings to realise and recognise the wide spread and unequal impact of adversity and trauma so that they can effectively respond to trauma to enable healing and to prevent further harm.

Wish 10 – Training offer to schools and settings

Develop a need-led service model within the One SEND Service

The Leeds Neurodiversity Pilot Project – Wish 10

Last year, whilst we raise awareness of Wish 10, we shared an update on the work Leeds are doing around the neurodiversity pathway and the trauma-informed approach. Below is an update of our project.

Children playing musical instruments in school

Pupils at Greenmount School are enriched by arts and culture opportunities

This blog has been written in collaboration with Greenmount Primary, who prioritise cultural and creative arts experiences for their pupils. We are shining a light on the efforts of the school, in support of Child Friendly Leeds Wish 7. Wish 7 – Children and young people know about things to do and places to go…
Read more

The Play Revolution at East SILC John Jamieson!

John Jamieson school, part of East Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (SILC), have spent the 2024/2025 academic year working hard to to improve opportunities for play and leisure for their students, thanks to a generous donation from the Sir George Martin Trust last summer. John Jamieson is a through generic special school, supporting pupils with a…
Read more

Are you ready to make a difference in your educational setting? Access free support to develop your Climate Action Plan through the Climate Ambassadors programme!

Funded by the Department for Education, this initiative is part of the Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, aiming for all education settings in England to have a designated Sustainability Lead and a Climate Action Plan by 2025. Climate Action Plans should set goals for education setting’s to progress decarbonisation, resilience to climate change, enhancing biodiversity…
Read more

Leeds Children’s Mayor 12 finalists – vote now!

Under 18s – vote now! Leeds Children’s Mayors is an annual citizen project that has been running for over 15 years. It is run in partnership between Democratic Services and the Voice and Influence Team. The project aims to actively engage children in the process of democracy and promote an understanding of rights and responsibilities…
Read more

Category: Schools