Voting day today for our House Captains and Vice-Captains. Who will be the representatives? Well done to all the candidates who gave clear and inspiring speeches this week.

Find a moment of refuge from the everyday... our theme for #NationalPoetryDay with poems by Joseph Coelho, Shirley Hughes, Kate Wakeling, Matt Goodfellow, Michael Rosen and Ted Kooser & Connie Wanek

Our year 2, 5 and 6 pupils had workshops with the NSPCC today regarding staying safe and the use of Childline 0800 1111 - Speak Out Stay Safe. Read more out online safety on our blog redroseprimaryschool.com/parents/online…

Was great being at St Mary and St Cuthbert's Church for our Harvest Festival this morning - beautiful singing from KS2 pupils and thank you for donations for People's Kitchen and Durham CP - really appreciate all of the donations.

On Tuesday, we raced against Durham and Chester-le-Street schools in the area XC. Some did a race and some a fun run. Special mention to Joy (1st), Daniel (1st), Henry (2nd), Finn (6th) and Beth (10th). Our competitive teams have qualified for the county finals in the New Year.

This week we are having Maths Workshops to show parents how our pupils are taught maths. Parents are finding it a useful support.

Today was #OddSocksDay at school. It is a day when we join together to show that it's okay to be different and to stand up against bullying and discrimination. For more info see anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk

Our School Council would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who kindly supported the Operation Christmas Child . 55 boxes were collected and they are now on their way to Moldova and Kosovo - this will make a real difference to children's lives - thank you very much.

On Sat 18th Nov, we have our Christmas Fair with some great stalls alongside some fantastic Christmas decorations made by our pupils. Come along to really start the festive season and support our school.

Well done to the Indoor Athletics squad who succesfully made it through to the next round at Maiden Castle today ... fantastic achievement.

Yesterday, we took part in the Be Internet Legends assembly run with Parent Zone - the theme was Be Kind and our pupils have suggested great ways to be kind when being online.

After our recent Scholastic Book Fair, we have been able to purchase some fanstatic books, chosen by our pupils, to bolster up our Accelerated Reading choices. Books open up our world.

This week, some of our athletes went to the Sports Hall Athletics with DurhamCLS-SSP and we have qualified for the County Level round representing Chester-le-Street. The behaviour and effort of our pupils was exemplary.

The children enjoyed a brilliant performance from 'The Rocking Tigers' this morning. We are all very much in the festive spirit after Santa Claus was coming to Town.

We had a great Santa Fun Run in aid of St Cuthbert's Hospice - no snow but lots of fun! Click for a Thank you from Santa and his elves. youtube.com/watch?v=B_UotA…

Very best wishes to everyone from Red Rose Primary School for the Christmas season and wishing you all the best for 2024.

Great results for our XCountry teams on Saturday. Joy and Max coming 1st in their events. Girls team came 1st overall. Lots of first time runners - amazing! Thank you to all parents for supporting and cheering on. Well done to every competitor - excellent running.

Amazing results at the weekend for our X-Country team with 1st place in Boys, Girls and Overall. Well done to everyone who competed. This success adds to qualifying for the County Finals in Tag Rugy, Swimming, Indoor Sportshall Athletics and X-Country. Sporting Success 👏

Recent Sporting success! Children from y5/6 came joint 3rd in the County Sports Hall Althletics and then children from y 3,4,5,& 6 came first in the County Swimming Competition. Some amazing individual and team swims - 2 parts of the triathlon nailed!

Our amazing swimmers competed at Ponds Forge, Sheffield and won first state school for both freestyle and medley. Achieved getting throgh to the A final and finishing 7th in the country. Absolutely brilliant - well done. As Dory says - Just keep swimming.