Riverside Primary Academy | Key Stage Two

Key Stage Two

Snow White and the Man in the Mirror visit Riverside!

This morning, we had a FANTASTIC assembly with some special visitors! The Man in the mirror and Snow White from Time Theatre School came to talk to the children this morning in assembly. They told jokes, laughed and danced with the children! The teachers loved dancing along...

Harvest Festival!

Today, in assembly we held our annual Harvest Festival. We began by looking at some of the vegetables harvested from our own forest school area and some of the fruit and vegetables from our harvest songs. Then, some Year 4 children presented information about Harvest...

Year 5 Tudor Workshop

On Monday, Richard ‘That History Bloke’ visited Year 5. We learned lots of new information about life during the Tudor era. The class took part in a true/false quiz to test current knowledge about the Tudors, they looked at a variety of Tudor artefacts and discussed...

Riverside Football Team

Last night, our football team played at Ryton Federation in the County Cup tournament. Although we did not make it to the finals, they all played extremely well in all three games.  I was so impressed with their teamwork skills, resilience and support of each...

Eco Award Celebration!

Riverside Primary Academy are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded our first Green Flag by Eco Schools England this year . This special award recognises the work we have completed as a school to learn about environmental issues as part of our curriculum...

Praise Assembly

Every Friday we have Praise Assembly  to celebrate achievements in and out of school. Mittrha showed us her sporting medals today!...

And They’re Off!

Our Year 6 pupils set off on their residential trip this afternoon, for a fun-packed weekend at Dukeshouse Wood. The whole school joined their parent/carers outside to wave the children off on the coach. We will try to post updates over the weekend on the website, if...

Community Litter Pick with Year 5

Year 5 completed a litter survey and litter pick this afternoon  with Tracy who manages the Community Hub in the Metrocentre.  A big thank you to Tracy and her helpers for providing all the litter pickers, gloves and bags to complete this litter pick. The...

Community Litter Pick

All of the children in Year 3 and 4 have been out in the community litter picking today. Thank you  to all of the children for their help! ...