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...
Every Friday we have Praise Assembly to celebrate achievements in and out of school. Mittrha showed us her sporting medals today!...
This week, Key stage 1 visited the fantastic railway museum, Locomotion, in Shildon! Children found out about the famous George Stephenson and the amazing contribution he made to the history of the railway! They enjoyed a workshop and looking at the trains to see how they had...
This week , we had some special visitors to our school. Tracy Allison manages the Community Hub in the Metrocentre and is running a project about plastic pollution in rivers and seas. Our school has been chosen to help with this project and our Year...
First of all, the staff at Riverside would like to thank all of the family and friends that came to support the children from Reception up to Year 6 today. All of the children have had great fun competing against the house teams in their...
A big thank you from Riverside! We had a great time celebrating Earth Day and raised £62 pound for The Sea Life Trust charity. Thank you for your kind donations. Mrs Ritchie and the Eco-Cops...
Well done to all the children who brought in used batteries last term. The batteries collected by each class have been weighed by the Eco- Cops and the results are finally in! Weighing a huge 11.5 kilograms, a huge well done to Year 4 who collected...
Today, we celebrated world book day in school and dressed up as our favourite book or story characters, or in comfy clothes, for a day of reading and book related activities! We started the day with an assembly by Mrs Knott to talk about Reading and...
While KS1 are lucky enough to have the chicks with them, we have been weighing and measuring their height every day! The chicks have grown at a very rapid rate and our tallest chick is now 17cm! The heaviest chick is 100g or 21 cubes (Year...
Key Stage 1 have some gorgeous little arrivals this week. So far we have ten little hatchlings in year 1, nine in year 1/2 and ten in year 2! How lucky are we? No doubt you'll hear all about them over the next few weeks. Check...