Category: News

21st December 2018

Richmond House School are delighted to have submitted plans for development of their Early Years building and the construction of a new sports and performance hall. Following the granting of the planning permission in April 2018 and positive feedback from parents on our proposals, the Governors and Senior Leadership Team have reviewed the plans in…

14th December 2018

Richmond House School choir has been out and about over the last few weeks. They took part in a Choirathon in aid of St Vincent’s Support Centre at Trinity Leeds. The Richmond House choir was one of 12 choirs that sung in the shopping centre over a 2 day period to raise funds for the charity.  This week the…

6th December 2018

This year pupils and staff at Richmond House School are proud to be supporting the Mission Christmas toy campaign. Pupils have been asked to donate Christmas gifts for children aged between 0-18 years which will be sent to disadvantaged children across Leeds. Last year’s Mission Christmas appeal supported 25,553 children in West Yorkshire and many…

29th November 2018

This week we were delighted to welcome the children’s author, John Clewarth to Richmond House School to visit our Year 5 and 6 pupils. John, who is the author of the much acclaimed young adult novel, Firestorm Rising, hosted a workshop for each year group on story writing and supplied top tips and techniques on…

19th November 2018

Last week, Richmond House School, the independent school for children aged 3-11 in Far Headingley, North Leeds went dotty over fundraising for Children In Need. All pupils from Nursery to Year 6 were allowed to come to school dressed down in their own clothing or dressed up in a Children In Need or spotty outfit….

9th November 2018

Richmond House School has commemorated the WW1 Centenary this week. The school has installed eight life size soldier silhouettes on their school fields in the run up to Remembrance Sunday, which were their representation of the British Legion Silent Silhouettes national campaign. On Friday morning, the school held a ceremony, each child took part in…

7th November 2018

Yesterday a team from Year 5 and 6 travelled up the road to Moorlands School to take part in the Science Quiz Area Heats for the National Inter-School Quiz Championships. The competition was a close-run contest with Richmond House competing against a team from Moorlands School, two teams from Barnard Castle and a team from…

25th October 2018

We held our annual Harvest celebration last Friday at St Chad’s Church. This was the first musical event for our new Director of Music, Mr Hawkins, and the children certainly did him proud. Year groups joined together to sing various Harvest related pieces, and the choir performed “Somewhere over the Rainbow” and “You Raise Me…

22nd October 2018

Last week, Year 5 visited Murton Park at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming to experience life as a Tudor for the day. The pupils got to dress up as Tudor farmers living in the late sixteenth century and learnt all about daily life and practised appropriate skills. They undertook domestic tasks, and learnt all about…

4th October 2018

Richmond House School celebrated the European Day of Languages last week. We invited our pupils to wear something that represented a country or language of their choice, and there were some fantastic costumes and ideas. On the day we were delighted to welcome Nathalie Paris and her Bibliobus into school. All of the children had…