by daveross | Oct 8, 2025 | News
This week, our school community came together to celebrate Harvest in a joyous and meaningful way. On Wednesday, Key Stage 2 pupils took the lead in a special service at our local church, St Mary and St Cuthbert’s, sharing the spirit of gratitude and community. Key...
by daveross | Oct 7, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Oct 2, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Oct 2, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Oct 1, 2025 | News
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:...
by daveross | Oct 1, 2025 | News
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...
