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Year Six Arrive Safe and Sound!

Year Six have arrived at Kingswood safe and sound. Hopefully if Miss Fleming can get a better wifi connection we hope to be able to post some more pictures throughout the weekend. I wonder what adventures lie ahead for them...

School Christmas Fair

We will be holding a Christmas Fair on Friday 23rd November here at Riverside Primary Academy. Any parent/carers with a small business, who would be interested in purchasing a stall to sell their products, please contact one of our parent governors below; Fiona Brown: fiona_espie@hotmail.co.uk Liz Fearon: lizwatson123@live.com                          ...

MacMillan Coffee Morning

Due to our coffee morning being incredibly popular, we will be hosting THREE Macmillan Coffee Mornings this year. WEDNESDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER - FOR ALL NURSERY AND RECEPTION PARENTS, CARERS AND CHILDREN THURSDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER - FOR ALL  YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2 PARENTS, CARERS AND CHILDREN FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER...

Applications for Reception 2019 – NOW OPEN!!

If your child was born between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015 you can apply now for your child to start reception class in September 2019. Apply online at: www.gateshead.gov.uk/schooladmissions Online applications must be submitted by 15 January 2019. If you do not submit your form by...

KS1 Golden Ticket Winners

On Monday afternoon it was the turn of our KS1 pupils to spend their five Golden Tickets on a trip to the Jumparena. Everyone had a fantastic afternoon out of school and burned off a lot of energy in a very hot and sweaty trampoline park. Well...

Golden Ticket Winners!

These KS2 pupils have 5 or more golden tickets and as a reward Mrs Goodfellow took them to Jumparena this afternoon!! We all had an amazing time and worked off our school lunches. A huge thank you to the staff from Jumparena who were lovely and...

Sports Day 2018

Thankfully the recent good weather continued long enough for us to hold Sports Day 2018 as planned this week. A huge thank you to all the staff for preparing the events, the children for their excellent attitude and behaviour and to our parent/carers who came along...

Be a Smarter Parker

We have received a number of complaints about illegally and inconsiderately parked vehicles near our school which coincide with the school’s start/finish times and in particular when there are whole school events such as sports day. This not only causes inconvenience to local residents but also...

Food-ball’s Coming Home – Thursday 12th July

  Our school meal provider, Dolce, are planning a world cup theme menu on the Thursday 12th July. The menu has a variety of international themed dishes which we are certain the children and staff will love. If your child does not yet stay for school lunches but...

Race for Life 2018!

What a beautiful day, a fantastic turnout and great fun! We have all had a lovely time and would like to thank everyone that turned up to watch the children run during the event and stayed to enjoy the sun and stalls afterwards. Also, a...