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  • Durham Dash 2025

    Published 12/06/25
    An incredible, long night at Beamish Museum last night for the Durham Dash with runners and field eventers competing in a huge event against over 40 local schools with more than 1000 children taking part. When results were announced at the end,, the
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  • Colour Run 2025

    Published 11/06/25
    Thank you to all of the children who took part in the sponsored Colour Run - it was another fantastic whole school event!
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  • York Y6 Residential

    Published 11/06/25
    Our Y6 children have thoroughly enjoyed their residential trip to York! They spent 3 action packed days visiting lots of attractions such as Jorvik, The Dog, York Museum, Eden Camp and The Chocolate Factory! 
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  • R+ Scarecrow

    Published 10/06/25
    Over half term holiday club, Rickleton Plus children took part in a competition to design and build a scarecrow for our community garden to protect all the lovely fruit and vegetables.   The photo shows the scarecrow being installed in the str
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  • Swimming Success

    Published 05/06/25
    Congratulations to our Swimming teams who took part in the Sunderland Schools Gala this morning. Entering two boys and two girls teams in to the Freestyle and Medley races, all teams swam competitively and showed great sporting attitudes. Our boys te
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  • Y5 Netball Success

    Published 05/06/25
    Congratulations to our Y5 netball teams, who completed their Chester le Street School league fixtures tonight. Both A and B teams have won all of the fixtures in their league and, as the results and league table attached show, should be rightly proud
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  • Nursery Open Morning

    Published 30/05/25
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  • Disability Softball Cricket

    Published 23/05/25
    40 KS2 children have enjoyed a week of softball cricket coaching with Daryl Smith from the Durham Cricket Foundation. Daryl is a specialist coach and ensure that all children developed a good understanding of the game and had a great experience devel
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  • Aquarium Visit

    Published 23/05/25
    Our Reception children visited the aquarium in Tynemouth. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the aquarium and seeing their learning come to life. They took part in a workshop called ‘Rockpool Encounters’, where they learn
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  • Under the Sea Parent Event

    Published 23/05/25
    Our EYFS children invited their grown-ups in to take part in a special workshop. They worked together with a grown-up to create a sea creature using a paper plate as the base and then combining this with other creative resources. They enjoyed sharing
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  • Celebration of the Harraton Colliery

    Published 19/05/25
    On Saturday 17th May, Rickleton Primary School opened its doors to celebrate 60 years since the closure of the Cotia pit. The school is built on the site of the old pit so this was a very special occasion for the school and local community. The day
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  • Local Sporting Success

    Published 16/05/25
    A very successful week of sport in school with our Girls' Football team winning the Washington Schools' Girls' Trophy and our Y4 Football team winning the Washington Schools' Y4 Trophy. Add in our Y5 netball A team winning their first
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