Mount Pleasant Primary School

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Strong oral language skills help children feel confident, connected and ready to learn. This guide explores simple, eve...
12/06/2026


Strong oral language skills help children feel confident, connected and ready to learn. This guide explores simple, everyday ways that parents, carers and educators can support children’s speaking, listening and understanding, from shared conversations and story time to naming feelings and building vocabulary through play and routines.

It also highlights the value of working closely with nurseries, schools and early years settings, using evidence-based approaches and spotting possible language needs early. With expert insight from OxEd, the guide offers supportive advice to help children become confident communicators as they prepare for school.

Little Learners have had lots of fun exploring some lovely beach treasures that some of the children kindly shared with ...
06/06/2026

Little Learners have had lots of fun exploring some lovely beach treasures that some of the children kindly shared with them. The children have enjoyed handling a variety of shells, pebbles and sea w**d. They added some soft dry sand for scooping and feeling with hands and fingers. A lovely sensory and physical activity along with opportunity to hear and use new words.
The children also had fun in the water outside exploring the beach rocks and pebbles. Lots of physical skills as the children balanced and transported them using spoons, placed them into different sized metal containers and filled and emptied with jugs. Some children also added the sea creatures into their play. Lots of early maths learning too through counting, exploring size, quantities and weight.

It's been a very busy week in Nursery!
06/06/2026

It's been a very busy week in Nursery!

In maths this week, the children in Reception have been learning about numbers beyond 10. They learnt that 11, 12, 13 et...
06/06/2026

In maths this week, the children in Reception have been learning about numbers beyond 10. They learnt that 11, 12, 13 etc all have a full ten and a bit. So 11 is 10 and 1, 12 is 10 and 2, 13 is 10 and 3 and so on. The children have enjoyed investigating this.

The children in Meadows, have enjoyed retelling the book 'Little Kipper's picnic' and checking how much their sunflower ...
06/06/2026

The children in Meadows, have enjoyed retelling the book 'Little Kipper's picnic' and checking how much their sunflower seeds have grown over the holiday. They also loved making repeating patterns in maths and looking at books with sliding mechanisms in DT.

The children in Y1, have been looking at different books today with a DT focus. The books had different mechanisms such ...
06/06/2026

The children in Y1, have been looking at different books today with a DT focus. The books had different mechanisms such as sliding or lifting flaps to reveal pictures. They choose a favourite book and some explained to the class about it.

On Thursday, year 2 painted in the vibrant style of French artist Raoul Dufy! Known for his decorative flair and bold co...
06/06/2026

On Thursday, year 2 painted in the vibrant style of French artist Raoul Dufy! Known for his decorative flair and bold colours, Dufy’s work inspired them to explore the beauty of art. Their piece, inspired by the stunning landscapes of Saltburn, will be used as their design for their upcoming weave project in the following weeks.

The children in Y3 finished their death masks. They put the final details on by looking at real death masks to see what ...
06/06/2026

The children in Y3 finished their death masks. They put the final details on by looking at real death masks to see what they needed for their design.

In computing, Year 5 have been working on variables and sequencing. They programmed a sprite to react when it touched a ...
06/06/2026

In computing, Year 5 have been working on variables and sequencing. They programmed a sprite to react when it touched a certain colour, by changing its colour.

On Wednesday, Sarah from the Dolphin Centre came into school to talk to the year five and six children about the Water S...
06/06/2026

On Wednesday, Sarah from the Dolphin Centre came into school to talk to the year five and six children about the Water Safety Code.
Stop and think,
Stay together,
Float to survive,
Call 999 (Do not enter the water yourself)
Sarah also talked about riptides and how even though the water can seem calm, this can be misleading and dangerous.

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Newton Lane
Darlington
DL39HE

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Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm

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+441325244950

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