If you or anyone you know have a child born between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 they are eligible to start school in September 2025.
We would be honoured if you were considering our school and would love to meet you and show you round.
Please contact the school office by phone (01325 380758) or email (office@stmaryscockerton.org.uk) to arrange a visit, tour and chat.
Applications must be made to Darlington Borough Council School Admissions by 19th January 2025.
Our school is a place where all are welcomed and invited to build a community where God’s love is shared to enable positive engagement, action and education; allowing children, staff and pupils to be inspired to raise their eyes, open their minds and explore the world God created. Participating in God’s mission of love to both the local community and the wider world, we live fully as global neighbours. This work has been externally recognised and led us to be awarded the Bronze Global Neighbours Award by Christian Aid.
We are located on the west side of Darlington in the Cockerton Village area. We are a single form entry school and accommodate around 210 children in school. We have a wide catchment and we take children from all around the surrounding area and we feed into all the local secondary schools.
If you would like to visit us or would like more information about the school, please get in touch with the school office.
Children in Class 5 have had a wonderful time looking more closely at the planets in our Solar System.
They used fruit to look at the relative sizes of the planets and considered the usefulness of using a scaled model as well as the possible inaccuracies in these. They had to use a large yoga ball to represent the Sun but found out that this would actually have to be four times the size if it were to scale!
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This morning, Class 6 had the opportunity to participate in an online lesson to learn more about the importance of Holocaust Memorial Day.
During the zoom, they met Hedi Argent MBE who escaped to England at the age of 10 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. The chidlren listened to her story and her experiences.
They were able to participate in a Q&A and were over the moon that some of their questions were answered live.
Their key takeaway from Hedi is "small acts of kindness are so important, try your best to do this everyday."
For Holocaust Memorial Day, which is on 27th January, Class 6 will be sharing their learning with their parents and carers in their class assembly.
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What a great start to our Small Steps, Big Impact initiative for Classes One and Two to grab extra active minutes before school.
Their was a lovely atmosphere as parents, carers and toddlers joined the children to earn Active Tokens.
The class jars are over half full already so I think the classes will be getting extra playtime very soon if this continues!
Well done everyone!
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Last week, everyone in Year 3 enjoyed their first ukulele lesson with Miss Howard. First there was a warm up game involving keeping the beat and rhythm and then Miss Howard played the ukulele to the class before a class set of instruments was given out. Everyone learned how to hold the ukulele correctly and then the children rehearsed strumming along to rhythms and music. This was a lovely experience for the children and, after a great start, we are all looking forward to seeing how they progress this term.
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Class 4 had a fantastic STEM workshop on Friday, led by electrical engineers from the Smallpeice Trust on a national live Youtube event.
Following their science work last term, they learned more about circuits, conductors and insulators and how to build switches in to circuits, including building a pressure switch! Their minds were blown to find that Playdough is an amazing conductor, so they built wires made of Playdough! Photos of their circuits even made it onto the Youtube Live event!
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Just to reassure anyone who saw the fire engine outside school this morning that it was a false alarm.
I have been to school and would like to thank the County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service and our security cover for checking everything is ok.
Very thankful our lovely school is so well protected and all is well.
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Colourful community book bench unveiled in Cockerton
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A colourful community book bench, featuring the designs of local youngsters, has been unveiled at Cockerton Library.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
This week, Class 1 were thrilled to return to find that the Brain had grown! They met the Faithful Friends and solved some Quest Conundrums for PK. They built homes for the Faithful Friends and used adjectives to describe their favourite of the four.
It has been wonderful to see the children applying their phonic knowledge to independently create working codes.
Where will the quest take them next week?
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