We have enjoyed celebrating National Career’s week at Reid Street. We have completed work on careers, jobs and stereotypes and had many visitors into school. Reception had visits from Nurse Walton, PC Banks and PC Jones. The children enjoyed learning about their jobs and even got to dress up in the police and nurse’s uniforms…. Read more »

As always on ‘Children in Need’ day, our whole school dressed up with spots and Pudsey clothing for charity. We brought in donations to raise money for Children in Need to send off to the less fortunate. Altogether, we collected £313 across the whole school to donate. Last term, we (Reid Street Rota Kids) have… Read more »

​After securing a place in the final, Reid Street Choir performed at Ushaw College alongside 11 other schools for a chance to win Durham Music Service Primary Choir of the Year 2019. The children sang ‘Christmas Wish’ and demonstrated fantastic harmonies, diction and perfect pitch. This resulted in them achieving 1st place in the competition… Read more »

​On Thursday 21st November, 12 children from our dance club took part in a show at Middlesbrough Theatre alongside other schools from across the county.  Children from years 4-6 helped choreograph a dance to ‘Aladdin – Friend Like Me’. This evening was a great success and not only did the children enjoy participating in the… Read more »

​Children had great fun today taking part in the Inclusive Ice Festival at Billingham Forum. Throughout the morning the children had the chance to experience what it felt like to have fun on the ice with both skates and normal shoes. The use of penguins provided the children with the confidence to engage in all… Read more »

​On Wednesday 23 rd   October we learnt about staying safe around fire. The lady who came in told us that fire can be very dangerous when children are near it. We learnt that children that are 10 or older can have a criminal record if they are involved in a small or big fire even… Read more »

​Our annual Harvest Festival took place on Wednesday October 16th.  The theme this year was ‘Autumn’ and all year groups chose an aspect of this linked to the season of Harvest, which was celebrated by the whole school.   Our Head Boy and Girl introduced the Assembly and were the ‘comperes’ throughout. From the week before our… Read more »

​COME AND JOIN OUR TEAM! We are very lucky to have a dedicated team of reading volunteers who come into school on a weekly basis to listen to our pupils read.    ​Our volunteers provide valuable one to one support to pupils which benefits their reading significantly.  The more pupils read, the more progress they make… Read more »

​We held our Autumn Book Fair this month which proved to be very successful.  Thank you to all the parents and carers who brought their children along and supported this event, your generosity has helped the school to earn £334 in rewards allowing us to buy new books for our reading shelves.  Pupils always get… Read more »

​On Friday, the whole school took part in our annual International Day. We enjoyed dressing up in different culture’s clothing and performing our Brazilian dance for parents and the school. We discussed respect for different cultures and shared reasons why we chose our clothing for the day.