Over the last three weeks, we have been collecting money from the children who are coming to the sleep over. We have decided to run a hospitality business and have a massive sleepover. We have visited other schools in Darlington to find out about their sleep over and we even went to the local Mecure… Read more »

​On Friday, the figures needed to be in. We knew we had received lots of interest from businesses wanting to sponsor us (see the Sponsorship blog). It was our job to count the sleep over total.We had collected lots of money over the two weeks as we were counting and checking totals all the time. Jack,… Read more »

​Members of our Choir were invited to take part in Darlington’s annual Proms in the Park event alongside the winners and runners up from this year’s Mayor’s Singing Contest. Children performed a medley from Mary Poppins and participated in the finale of Rule Britannia, Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory. They performed alongside The… Read more »

​Well, what a fantastic day we had for our KS1 and KS2 Sports Day. The weather could not have been better. The children had slightly longer than usual on the field and managed to complete most of the activities. It was great to see the children laughing, enjoying themselves and being so supportive of each… Read more »

On Friday 14th June, we had some visitors from Barclays Bank who taught us the 7 steps of coding. 15 children from Year 5 and Year 4 were chosen to complete the workshop. We discussed how televisions and computers have changed from the 1950s for the better. We also learned how jobs were changing and… Read more »

​On Sunday 19th May, the Dance Club took part in Darlington’s Mass Dance. They thoroughly enjoyed practising the dance steps as well as learning the sign language. This year’s theme was “This Is Me” and was all about challenging inequality. The children also took part in an Indian and Zumba workshop. Darlington’s Mass Dance is… Read more »

We are the new Junior Road Safety Officers for Reid Street School. Our names are Lewis and Erica and we are in Year 5. We had to complete an application form for this role and then the classes voted amongst themselves for who they wanted to be the officers. The teachers counted the votes and we both won!… Read more »

We’re very excited because once again Reid Street Primary School is taking part in the annual Darlington Community Carnival and this year’s procession is ‘Heritage Themes’.  The carnival will take place on Saturday 29th June. Each school involved has been given their very own special part within the procession on a heritage theme linked to… Read more »

On Friday 22nd March, Pupil Voice and some other children from year 4 went litter picking to make a difference in our local community. Before we set off, we got into groups of five and were given an adult to work with. After that, we all got bin bags for the litter and grabbers to… Read more »

​We love the colour red at Reid Street and are always proud to wear our lovely red jumpers, sweatshirts and cardigans. On Friday 15th March there was even more red in school as pupils wore their red noses, deely boppers and official Red Nose Day T-shirts. Well done to everyone who took part and contributed… Read more »