Rickleton Primary School

📣We are opening our doors on Sat 19th Sept for an open morning between 9.00 and 10.30!

Graded Outstanding in all area by Ofsted in June 2025, we can’t wait to show you what our fantastic school offers all pupils!

We hope to see you there! 🎉

After 42 years the wonderful Mrs Smith is retiring tomorrow! We can’t thank her enough for the care, dedication and love she has given the school, pupils, families and staff over her many years at Rickleton!

Retiring teaching assistant Julie going to miss children "immensely" after 42 years at the same school

Another amazing colour run!! 🌈🩷❤️🧡💛💜💙🩵💚🌈
Thank you to everyone who took part, sponsored the children and helped to run the event!

Thank you FORPS for another successful event! 🎉🙌🏻

Our wonderful school choir and singing at Beamish Museum on Sunday!

If you are fancying a day out, please pop along to the pit village in Beamish around 11.30am to see their performance!

https://www.beamish.org.uk/events/beamish-folk-3/

Thank you

Beamish Folk - Beamish Museum Local musician Bill Elliott will be joined by Rickleton Primary School Choir for a special performance of Folk songs from the region.

📣 Save the date!! 📣

We are thrilled to be opening our EYFS doors for an open morning on Saturday 20th June from 9.00am - 10.30am!

Come and see our wonderful provision which was graded Outstanding in June 2025.

Find out more about our flexible Nursery hours, wrap around care and the amazing opportunities we offer the pupils at Rickleton!
We hope to see you there!

If anyone you know is looking to train as a Primary School teacher, please share the attached flyer for the Washington and Chester le Street Teacher Training Alliance. Our 1-year course for those with a 2:2 degree or higher, immerses trainees in a local school for the full year offering the best opportunity to develop as a teacher and gain employment in future years. For more information please look at the school website:

https://www.rickletonprimary.co.uk/page/?title=Train+to+Teach&pid=110


To apply click on the following link:
https://find-teacher-training-courses.service.gov.uk/course/2W4/U815

The National Book Tokens are running a competition and we need your help to hopefully enable RPS to win!

Nominate our school to with one of their five huge prizes. Plus, you could win a £100/€120 National Book Token for yourself!

Simply complete the form on the link below and vote for Rickleton! Vote as many times as you can and please share far and wide!

https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools-prize

Thank you!

Win £1,000 / €1,000 for your school’s library! Help your school – plus win a £100/€120 National Book Token for yourself. Nominate a school to win our big prize and encourage reading for pleasure all year round.