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Cleves Cross Primary and Nursery School celebrated their 50th anniversary by inviting staff, parents and pupils with a connection to the school to an open afternoon event on Monday 3rd July. Staff had found a collection of photos and created a gallery for people to try and spot themselves, friends and teachers.

Congratulations to St Aidan’s Catholic Academy in Sunderland, which is part of Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust for achieving an ‘Outstanding’ rating in their most recent Ofsted inspection.

The PTA of Walbottle Village Primary School organised a colour-run obstacle course as a way of saying thank you to the pupils for all their hard work over the past year.

Endeavour Academy in Durham have been recognised at the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) Awards for their students’ outstanding research into children’s mental health.

Bridgewater Primary School has partnered with the charity Healthworks to create a new recipe book called ‘Air Fry and Eat Well’ that has been inspired by a project to drive down the energy costs for Scotswood residents.

The Department for Education has offered a 6.5% teacher pay rise nationally with ASCL, NEU, NASUWT and NAHT recommending to members that they accept the pay award with ballots being set up for the last weeks of July.

Schools North East sent out the final ‘State of the Region’ survey this term. The survey is conducted regularly across this academic year.  We ask the same set of core questions every term to get a snapshot of the situation in North East schools, tracking developments across the academic year.

Churchill Community College secured funding from Schools North East’s partnership with the Community Foundation to engage their pupils in a variety of extracurricular activities in order to achieve the Pledge Award.

Schools in the North East have faced significant challenges as a result of the pandemic and are now struggling with a crisis in recruitment and retention, steep rises in students with complex needs, increases in children and young people eligible for free school meals, and substantial pressures on budgets.

Stakeholder research group Edurio has released a report which consists of 5 years of data tracking how risk of resignation for staff of different roles has evolved before, during and since the pandemic.  In this report they look at the areas with the strongest retention levels.

Portobello Primary School, in Gateshead, successfully secured funding from the Community Foundation / Schools North East collaboration to start a project that enabled the school to take their year 4 pupils on a trip to learn more about Anglo Saxon life.

David Roberts from the Bank of England visited Laygate Community Primary School in South Shields. This visit was a part of a two day visit to the North East from David who also spoke to the Bank of England North East Agency team.