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Key Stage One

Sunflower Pledge!

More children in Key Stage 1 (Mrs Knott and Mrs Ritchie and Mrs Sumner's Class) have been planting beautiful sunflowers today in the memory of Mrs Judge who absolutely adored gardening, nature and the outdoors. If anyone who has not yet donated and would like to...

Key Stage 1 River walk

Key Stage 1 enjoyed a lovely  sunny walk along the river this week to look at our local area. We had planned our route in our ICT lessons using digi maps and then we wrote the directions for the route we would take including the street...

Pledge a Sunflower

Thank you to all those who have kindly donated and pledged a sunflower in memory of our wonderful Mrs Judge. The children have thoroughly enjoyed planting their seeds and are looking forward to caring for them over the coming weeks. For those who did not...

Measurement in Year 1

Year 1 in Mrs Knott's class have been learning about measurement in their Math lessons. Today we began to investigate and measure the capacity of different containers using non-standard units of measure. Today we worked in teams and used sand as our non standard unit, to see the...

World Book Day!

The children have had an absolutely AMAZING day celebrating World Book Day at school! They started their day with an assembly by Mrs Knott and talked about why Reading is important, not only for school but also for pleasure at home! The children then took part in...

Autumn House Games 2022

The Riverside House Games have started today. The children worked in their house groups and competed against the other houses. They showed excellent teamwork skills! Once all classes have finished, the results will be announced! At the end of the year, we will have an overall House...

Thank you for attending Sports Day!

Thank you very much to everyone - family and friends - that came along yesterday to enjoy our Sports Day at Riverside. A special thanks to those parents who joined in with the adult races. The children and staff all had great fun and we hope you...

KS1 Trip to Bamburgh and the Grace Darling Museum!

KS1 enjoyed learning all about Grace Darling's life and experimenting with lots of different items/clothing during the workshop. We then explored the Church of St Aidan's and its grounds finding both Grace's grave and memorial site. Also, we looked out across the waves to Longstone Lighthouse...

The Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations!

There has been a buzz in the air today at Riverside as the children all came into school to find their classrooms decorated for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations. From Nursery to Year 6, all of the children have been learning about the Royal family and the...