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Latest Happenings at Rivington Foundation School
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New PE T Shirts
To support school in what can be a financially challenging aspect of school life, the PTA supported by Chorley Borough...
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Leap Year Fundraising Challenge
As you may know, 2024 is a leap year, providing us with an extra day in February. To make the...
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Breakfast with Santa
Our most popular event, breakfast with Santa and a surprise visit from a cheeky elf aka Miss Whitehead 🙂
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Carols in the Playground
Finishing off the festive season with the children singing carols in the playground
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Grandparents Tea Party 2023
The festive season is well under way, Monday saw us hold our annual grandparents tea party. Both sittings were very...
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Clothes Bank Collection
Thank you for your continued donations of used shoes and clothing into the textile bank. Our last collection raised £84...
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Art Week 2023
Well done to all the children for participating in art week, what a great week we’ve had.
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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!!!...
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ASDA Green Token Scheme
Thank you to everybody that voted for us in the Asda Green Token Scheme, we came third overall. The Community...
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Rivington Spring Fair 2023
The PTA ran a plant stall at the annual Rivington Spring Fair raising £206 to put towards the new phonics...
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Kings Coronation 2023
Well done to year 3 and 4 for colouring this beautiful picture to commemorate the Kings Coronation.
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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,...
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Cross Country 2023
Well done to all our cross country runners who ran at Astley park in very muddy conditions. Congratulations to Charlie...
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Netball 2023
Congratulations to our Yr 5/6 Netball team who have been competing in the Chorley Schools Sports partnership league over the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Breakfast With Santa 2022
It was so lovely to have Breakfast With Santa back after such a long time, Thank you to Santa for...
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Christmas Fair 2022
Thank you to everyone who helped out, donated and attended the Christmas Fair it was a fabulous day. The final...
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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...
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School Admissions 2023
School admissions are now open for children due to start primary or secondary school in September 2023. ✅ Be...
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Easyfundraising
Did you know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Online Safety Workshop
Attached are the slides that were used along with the links to some useful resources that Kat mentioned during her...
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Goodbye Mrs Gell 🙁
Thank you to all of you who joined us on Friday to say goodbye to Mrs. Gell. After 24 years...
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Small Schools Football Tournament
Congratulations to our Year 5 & 6 football team who competed in the small schools football tournament. We finished 5th...
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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...
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Flu immunisation consent
If you would like your child to receive the nasal flu vaccine in school please follow this link to complete...
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School Admissions
Please find at the bottom of the page a copy of our admissions arrangements, explaining how we consider applications. This...
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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...
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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...
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Nasal Flu Vaccine
If you would like your child to receive the nasal flu vaccine in school please follow this link to complete...
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School Admissions 2021
Year 6 – due to transfer into high school in September 2021 The statutory closing date is 31 October 2020....
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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...
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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...
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Useful resources
We have created a new page to the website to help parents and carers access any useful documents or resources...
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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...
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Young Voices 2020
What a fantastic time we had at Young Voices this year! As always, the choir showed great commitment and enthusiasm...
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Breakfast With Santa
Our famous Breakfast with Santa was once again a roaring success. Thank you to all the elves that transformed the...
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Children In Need
Congratulations to everybody for helping raise £210.33 for Children In Need on Friday. Thank you for all your contributions
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Our Football Team
Congratulations to our football team who took part in the small schools competition and finished 3rd overall. Well done to...
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Diva lamps
Reception and Nursery have been busy learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali and have made these beautiful Diva lamps...
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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...
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Harvest Festival
Thank you to everyone who attended harvest and for all your generous donations. The children were amazing!
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Yr6 Towerwood Residential
Year 6 have overcome fears, developed their team building skills, shown perseverance and resilience but most of all discovered new...
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Taekwondo
Two of our year 6 pupils proudly showing off their black belt certificates for Taekwondo with Master Ellison. A fantastic...
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Welcome back!
Welcome back to School and a special welcome to all our new families.
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Our Winning Engineers!
Congratulations to Roman, Riley and Ted who competed in the Primary Engineer competition at Smithills School against many other schools...
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Sports Day 2019
Well done to all our children for their efforts in sports day. Thank you to CSSP and Albany Academy for...
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Summer Fair – Raffle
Raffle tickets will be on sale in and around school, check out some of the amazing prizes on offer.
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Guitar and Ukulele performance
For those of you who were fortunate to attend the assembly on Friday you will have enjoyed the talent and...
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Year 1 Forest School
Year 1 have been enjoying forest school every week this half term, in all weathers!
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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!
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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...
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Sports For Schools
Today the Children took part in the Sports for School scheme. They had a fabulous time meeting the Paralympic cyclist...
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Easter Celebrations 2019
Amazing and Eggs-traordinary! Once again the Easter competitions showed how imaginative and creative our children (and families) are! Thank you...
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World Book Week 2019
What a fantastic week we have had in school. We were lucky to have Wes Magee, Alec Williams and Fizzy...
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Winners! KS2 Football Tournament
Our KS2 football team did us proud in the competition at Holy Cross. They represented our school so well and...
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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...
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Christmas Fair 2018
Thank you for everyone who attended the Christmas fair and to all the Friends of Rivington who helped out! All...
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Year 1 & 2 Cinema Trip
Year 1 and 2 thoroughly enjoyed the cinema this morning. Excellent behaviour everyone!
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Lest We Forget
This is how Rivington Foundation Primary school honoured and remembered Armistice Day . The children created their very own poppies and...
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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...
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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...
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Gardening Day
We had a fantastic day in the school grounds, the children where hands on and helped plant lots of wonderful...