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Welcome to Red Rose
Primary School

Aim High
Be Proud!

A message from our Head Teacher

On behalf of the children, staff and governing body, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Red Rose Primary School, Chester-le-Street.

Our school motto is ‘Aim High, Be Proud’ and we have a long and established reputation of providing a rich and stimulating education for our pupils.  Our values of Respect – Excellence – Determination – Responsibility – Opportunity – Support for Others – Equality. Everything we do aims to encapsulate those aims and values.

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Learn about Red Rose

Values & Ethos

Find out more about our motto and our seven values. 

Key Information

Look through our key information in this section.

Ofsted Report

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills.

Curriculum

At Red Rose Primary School, our broad curriculum can be viewed here.

School News

Library Visit

As part of our celebrations for National Libraries Week, Key Stage One pupils enjoyed exciting trips to Chester-le-Street Library this week. The visits were packed with fun and learning as the children took part in a range of activities themed around the local history...
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National Poetry Day 2025

Today was National Poetry Day and we celebrated it through lots of different activities all themed around ‘Play’. Our younger pupils were either practising their Autumnal poem ready for our Harvest Festivals next week or they were inspired to do some skipping after...
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Accelerated Reader Monthly Winners

Reading is such an important skill to develop and we put a high emphasis on this at Red Rose. One thing that we do in school at the end of every month is to celebrate the reading that has taken place in school during that month. We use a scheme called Accelerated...
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Choosing house captains at our Chester-le-Street school

House Captain Elections

One of the British Values that we promote at Red Rose is Democracy. Every year, we hold House Captain and Vice Captain elections for the honour of pupils representing their house for the last year of their time at Red Rose. The four houses are linked to local castles:...
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Modelling blood cells using Scratch coding

In science, year 6 are learning about the different blood cells and what their functions are. To help with their understanding, they also used the coding platform, Scratch, to model what the blood cells do. In particular, looking at the white blood cells 'chasing and...
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