Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Christmas Craft Afternoon

  Thu 12 Dec 2024

  Thank you to everyone who was able to come along and help the children with Christmas craft afternoon. We really enjoyed the opportunity to chat to parents and see you working with your children. Here are some of the pictures from the afternoon.

   

  Next week there are more Christmas events: the Class 1 nativity on Monday, PTA Christmas bingo on Tuesday and the end of term Carol Concert on Thursday.

  

• School Council launches poster competition

  Fri 06 Dec 2024

  The school council has invited children to create posters to promote positive behaviour and friendships around the school.

   

  The class representatives spoke to the rest of the children today and discussed themes such as bullying prevention, kindness and respect.

   

  The school council will choose their favourite posters from each class and these will then be put on display around the school. The winners will be chosen next Friday (13th December).

  

• Pupil Voice Results

  Fri 29 Nov 2024

  We carry out regular surveys to understand how children feel about coming to Darley Churchtown CE Primary School.

   

  The findings from the latest survey, carried out last week, show all the children enjoy coming to school with 52% saying this was true "all the time", 24% "most of the time" and 24% "some of the time".

   

  The survey also found that the vast majority of children (95%) feel safe in school at all times, think that other children are well behaved and feel that they are kept safe and listened to at break and lunchtimes.

   

  Children were also asked whether they understood what constitutes bullying and whether they are taught how to stay safe online. 79% of children were able to define bullying correctly and 98% thought they were taught how to stay safe online.

   

  Although we were pleased with the findings, we will be following up the survey by reinforcing messages around staying safe in school and promoting the understanding of bullying and how children should respond if they have concerns. Look out for further updates in the next few weeks.

  

• School Closure

  Tue 19 Nov 2024

  Good morning, 

   

  Due to the heavy snow across the local and wider area, combined with the poor driving conditions, school will be closed today for all children.  

   

  As you can appreciate many staff travel into school and, despite best preparations, are snowed in, and unable to travel into school. This means that we are unfortunately unable to safely open our school site, unable to provide catering and unable to provide safe staffing levels.  

   

  Staff from school will be sharing some available learning via the school website by mid morning (10:30 a.m.) which children can access to help them practise key skills. We hope there’s also time to enjoy the unusual heavy snow.  

• Skateboards and bikes for Class 3

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  Class 3 have had an exciting week with a skateboarding session yesterday and Bikeability for the Year 6s.

   

  The whole class took part in a skateboarding activity organised by the Rural Derbyshire School Sports Partnership yesterday. They learnt the basics of moving on the board then progressed to 'pancake flips' and turns.

   

  Meanwhile the Year 6s have been taking their Bikeability training. All the children completed the Level 1 certificate on Tuesday and they are now moving out onto the local roads to work on Level 2.

  

• We're in the news!

  Tue 08 Oct 2024 Mr. O'Connell

  It was lovely to see Darley Churchtown make the Derbyshire Times this weekend as they celebrated our children's wonderful Year 6 outcomes: our children surpassed national averages, with 100% of our children achieving the expected standard in every test, with 29% achieving greater depth in reading and 43% in maths. Wow!

   

  You can find out more in the article on the Derbyshire Times' website: LINK

  

• September newsletter

  Tue 01 Oct 2024 Mr. O'Connell

   

  Our September newsletter, the first of the new school year, is available online.

   

  It includes:

  • A warm welcome - it's lovely to welcome our children back, along with new children and families;
  • Congratulations to our wonderful football team!;
  • Exciting updates about our planned Book Looks and Stay and Play (see you soon!).

   

  Thank you for continued care and support for our children, staff and school. Welcome back!

   

  

• School Open sessions for September 2025 starters

  Thu 25 Jul 2024

  SEPTEMBER STARTERS 2025 

   

  Do you have a little one starting school in September 2025?

   

  Come and join us for our open sessions to look round our wonderful school and meet some of our fabulous team!

   

  Come and tour the school, visit the classes and meet our wonderful children and staff!

   

  No need to book, just turn up to our school office. We look forward to welcoming you to our happy and successful school!

  

• Summer fair raises over £1000

  Mon 22 Jul 2024

  The Darley Churchtown PTA has raised £1,350 to support the school through the Summer Fair, which took place on Saturday.

   

  Children and families enjoyed taking part in a range of traditional summer fair activities and games, the raffle was as popular as ever and we even had a visit from the Matlock Town FC gladiator mascot. Thanks to everyone who came along and to the local businesses and other organisations that donated prizes.

   

  The money raised will be used to buy new playground equipment for the children and to contribute towards the cost of some trips next year.

  

• Congratulations to our fantastic Year 6 children!

  Tue 16 Jul 2024 Sara Firth

  A huge well done to our super star Year 6 children! All children in their recent SATs tests scored expected or above in all subjects: maths, grammer and spelling and finally reading! An amazing and well deserved result for you all. We are very proud of you all!