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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...

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...

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:...

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...

This week in Starlight Class, our young storytellers have been busy planning their very own magical adventures inspired by Roald Dahl's 'The Minpins'.  Using storyboards as a planning tool, the children explored how to structure their stories, thinking carefully about...

We were excited to welcome back members of St Mary and St Cuthbert's Church into school this week. Throughout autumn term, they will be visiting our school to share Bible stories with our Key Stage 1 children during 'Open the Book' assemblies.  Through engaging...

This week we hosted a golfing workshop at Red Rose, welcoming other of our primary school friends to learn a bit about how to play golf. The workshop, for year 3 pupils, was run by the Chester-le-Street and Durham School Sports Partnership, who we do lots of sporting...

Our year 3 and 4 pupils have been visiting the Roman fort of Segedunum this week exploring and discovering what life would have been like when it was the ‘strong fort’ at the end of Hardian’s wall. Standing for 300 years, it would have housed up to 600 Roman soldiers....

We were delighted to welcome parents and carers into school for our EYFS Phonics and Reading Workshop. The session provided an opportunity to explore how we teach phonics in the Early Years, with a focus on the Floppy's Phonics scheme, which supports our structured...

Children in Key Stage One have been busy becoming young weather watchers! As part of their Science learning on seasonal change, pupils spent the week observing and recording the weather each day. Using key scientific vocabulary such as temperature, rainfall and,...