Join us for the annual Summer fair on Friday 21st June
Latest Happenings at Rivington Foundation School

New PE T Shirts
To support school in what can be a financially challenging aspect of school life, the PTA supported by Chorley Borough...

Leap Year Fundraising Challenge
As you may know, 2024 is a leap year, providing us with an extra day in February. To make the...

Breakfast with Santa
Our most popular event, breakfast with Santa and a surprise visit from a cheeky elf aka Miss Whitehead 🙂

Carols in the Playground
Finishing off the festive season with the children singing carols in the playground

Grandparents Tea Party 2023
The festive season is well under way, Monday saw us hold our annual grandparents tea party. Both sittings were very...

Clothes Bank Collection
Thank you for your continued donations of used shoes and clothing into the textile bank. Our last collection raised £84...

Art Week 2023
Well done to all the children for participating in art week, what a great week we’ve had.

Small School Swimming Champions & Cannon Champions 2023
Congratulations to all our swimmers that took part in the small school swimming gala, we only went and won it!!!...

ASDA Green Token Scheme
Thank you to everybody that voted for us in the Asda Green Token Scheme, we came third overall. The Community...

Rivington Spring Fair 2023
The PTA ran a plant stall at the annual Rivington Spring Fair raising £206 to put towards the new phonics...

Kings Coronation 2023
Well done to year 3 and 4 for colouring this beautiful picture to commemorate the Kings Coronation.

Rivington Spring Festival 13th May 2023
Stalls on the green, music in the chapel, tasty burgers – come and support Rivington Foundation Primary School, Rivington Chapel,...

Cross Country 2023
Well done to all our cross country runners who ran at Astley park in very muddy conditions. Congratulations to Charlie...

Netball 2023
Congratulations to our Yr 5/6 Netball team who have been competing in the Chorley Schools Sports partnership league over the...

Nursery Place Applications September 2023
We are now taking enquiries for places in our outstanding* nursery provision starting in September 2023. For further details or...

Rag Bag Textile bank
We now have a textile bank in the school grounds to collect any unwanted wearable clothes.All money raised goes straight...

ASDA Green Token Scheme
We’ve been chosen for #GreenTokenGiving at #Asda. Vote for us today and we could receive £500 towards our playground fund...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
What better way than to end the term with the children singing carols outside in the snow. A very Merry...

Breakfast With Santa 2022
It was so lovely to have Breakfast With Santa back after such a long time, Thank you to Santa for...

Christmas Fair 2022
Thank you to everyone who helped out, donated and attended the Christmas Fair it was a fabulous day. The final...

Yr 3 & 4 Samba Workshop
Thank you to Unbeatable Energy who came into school today to give year 3 and 4 a samba workshop. They...

School Admissions 2023
School admissions are now open for children due to start primary or secondary school in September 2023. ✅ Be...

Easyfundraising
Did you know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you...

School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year
We are delighted to announce that Rivington Foundation Primary School, has achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the...

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – Oak Tree Planting Ceremony
On Tuesday 29th March the Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire joined us in order to start our Platinum Jubilee celebrations for...

Chorley SSP Cross Country Inter Schools Competition
On Saturday, a beautifully sunny day, 19 children boys from year 3-6 took part in the Chorley SSP Schools Cross...

Online Safety Workshop
Attached are the slides that were used along with the links to some useful resources that Kat mentioned during her...

Goodbye Mrs Gell 🙁
Thank you to all of you who joined us on Friday to say goodbye to Mrs. Gell. After 24 years...

Small Schools Football Tournament
Congratulations to our Year 5 & 6 football team who competed in the small schools football tournament. We finished 5th...

Virtual Book Fair
Simply visit www.booksforbugs.co.uk/shop and choose your books Once you get to the checkout stage please compete the billing details as normal but remember...

Flu immunisation consent
If you would like your child to receive the nasal flu vaccine in school please follow this link to complete...

School Admissions
Please find at the bottom of the page a copy of our admissions arrangements, explaining how we consider applications. This...

Covid -19 reporting during May half term
REPORTING CORONAVIRUS CASES DURING THE MAY HOLIDAY Dear Parents/ Carers, Please see the guidance below for reporting a positive case...

Covid 19 (LFT & PCR tests)
Please can I kindly remind all parents and carers that if a child or family member is displaying symptoms, children...

Nasal Flu Vaccine
If you would like your child to receive the nasal flu vaccine in school please follow this link to complete...

School Admissions 2021
Year 6 – due to transfer into high school in September 2021 The statutory closing date is 31 October 2020....

M&M Theatre Company – The Wizard of Oz
On Tuesday 29th September we are pleased to welcome the M and M theatre company to school.The company normally send...

Covid -19 Update 7th Sept
What is Catch-up Funding? Children and young people across the country have experienced unprecedented disruption to their education as a...

Useful resources
We have created a new page to the website to help parents and carers access any useful documents or resources...

World Book Week 2020
We have had a wonderful World Book Day/Week. Thank you for all your support, the children looked amazing. The aim...

Young Voices 2020
What a fantastic time we had at Young Voices this year! As always, the choir showed great commitment and enthusiasm...

Breakfast With Santa
Our famous Breakfast with Santa was once again a roaring success. Thank you to all the elves that transformed the...

Children In Need
Congratulations to everybody for helping raise £210.33 for Children In Need on Friday. Thank you for all your contributions

Our Football Team
Congratulations to our football team who took part in the small schools competition and finished 3rd overall. Well done to...

Diva lamps
Reception and Nursery have been busy learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali and have made these beautiful Diva lamps...

Yr5 & 6 Science in the environment
Year 5 and 6 have been studying our local reservoirs and recording observations of living things in their habitats for...








Harvest Festival
Thank you to everyone who attended harvest and for all your generous donations. The children were amazing!

Yr6 Towerwood Residential
Year 6 have overcome fears, developed their team building skills, shown perseverance and resilience but most of all discovered new...

Taekwondo
Two of our year 6 pupils proudly showing off their black belt certificates for Taekwondo with Master Ellison. A fantastic...

Welcome back!
Welcome back to School and a special welcome to all our new families.

Our Winning Engineers!
Congratulations to Roman, Riley and Ted who competed in the Primary Engineer competition at Smithills School against many other schools...

Sports Day 2019
Well done to all our children for their efforts in sports day. Thank you to CSSP and Albany Academy for...

Summer Fair – Raffle
Raffle tickets will be on sale in and around school, check out some of the amazing prizes on offer.

Guitar and Ukulele performance
For those of you who were fortunate to attend the assembly on Friday you will have enjoyed the talent and...

Year 1 Forest School
Year 1 have been enjoying forest school every week this half term, in all weathers!

Year 2 treats for working so hard throughout SAT’s
Year 2 enjoyed treats at the barn for working so hard throughout SAT’s. We are so proud!

Yr 5 & 6 enjoying “Out and About Week”
We went for a big nature walk, exploring our wonderful local area with a science focus – identifying trees. Then...

Sports For Schools
Today the Children took part in the Sports for School scheme. They had a fabulous time meeting the Paralympic cyclist...

Easter Celebrations 2019
Amazing and Eggs-traordinary! Once again the Easter competitions showed how imaginative and creative our children (and families) are! Thank you...

World Book Week 2019
What a fantastic week we have had in school. We were lucky to have Wes Magee, Alec Williams and Fizzy...

Winners! KS2 Football Tournament
Our KS2 football team did us proud in the competition at Holy Cross. They represented our school so well and...

Breakfast with Santa 2018
The ever popular Breakfast with Santa was once again a huge success, special thanks to the elves who worked hard into...

Christmas Fair 2018
Thank you for everyone who attended the Christmas fair and to all the Friends of Rivington who helped out! All...

Year 1 & 2 Cinema Trip
Year 1 and 2 thoroughly enjoyed the cinema this morning. Excellent behaviour everyone!

Lest We Forget
This is how Rivington Foundation Primary school honoured and remembered Armistice Day . The children created their very own poppies and...

Friends of Rivington Foundation Primary School
PTFA – The PTFA has gone through some slight changes and we welcome Mrs. Roberts as our new chair. We...


Year 3 & 4 Trip to Astley Hall
Year 3 & 4 took a day trip to Astley Hall in Chorley and got an insight into its history...

Gardening Day
We had a fantastic day in the school grounds, the children where hands on and helped plant lots of wonderful...