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Healthy Schools Award 2025

We have achieved Healthy School status for the second time! This remarkable accomplishment reflects a steadfast commitment to promoting well-being, healthy lifestyles, and a positive learning environment for students and staff alike. Maintaining this prestigious status showcases the dedication of everyone involved—teachers, children, and the wider school community—to fostering a culture of health, both physically and mentally.

Healthy Schools Award Certificate

Bronze Wild Challenge Award achieved April 2025

Children in Nursery have achieved the Bronze Award for protecting and restoring nature in our Early Years Garden.

Children experienced nature through

Carrying out a bug hunt, and using books to support identification of bugs and to learn interesting facts around them.
Looked closer to the natural world around them, choosing one interesting object to study and sketch.
Engaged in pond dipping, where they found a range of different water beetles, water snails and larvae. The children used identification posters to support them.

Children helped nature by:

Making bird feeders.

Creating a bug hotel.

Starting to compost their leftover fruit and vegetables after snack time.

School for Nature Award
Wild Challenge Bronze Award

Green Flag with Distinction Award September 2024

Green Flag with Distinction Award September 2023

Quote from our Green Flag Assessor…

Achieving our accreditation demonstrates that you have gone above and beyond to improve your local community and protect our planet, if everyone shared the same passion, determination, and dedication we’re sure the climate crisis would soon be a thing of the past. We have loved reading about your journey and are incredibly impressed by all you have achieved. We have no hesitation in awarding you an Eco-Schools Green Flag with Distinction, congratulations! Young people in your school are aware of environmental issues and committed to being active and creating positive change. This knowledge and attitude has provided your school with excellent foundations for the many successes that you’ve achieved this year. We’re delighted that the Eco Warriors have been given an opportunity to make a difference through the Eco-Schools programme. It’s clear your Eco-Committee are constantly considering what actions they can take to improve their local community and benefit our planet. Your Action Plan shows that your Eco-Committee have carefully considered how they can involve their entire school in their planned Eco-Schools’ activities to achieve maximum impacts and raise awareness amongst their school community. We enjoyed reading about your plans for your focus areas on global citizenship, marine and water. We love the variety of activities that you and your Eco-Committee have included in the Action Plan. This will no doubt support multi-disciplinary skills and shows how integrated environmentalism is in your school.

Opal Award Autumn 2024

Quote from our OPAL Assessor…

It was a delight to visit Edmondsley and see the quality of your playtimes has continued to be truly exceptional. your site provides children with a rich variety of play opportunities….who could ever be bored at playtime at Edmondsley, from den building to mud kitchens, Parkour performance, small world to reading retreat. your children have the freedom to play and become whoever they choose to be on a daily basis and that in itself is invaluable, happy children equals healthy minds, better able to learn and thrive in a world of uncertainty.

Primary Science Quality Mark 2024

By participating in PSQM, Edmondsley has raised the profile of science, developed and strengthened leadership practices, and ultimately improved the quality and effectiveness of science education further.

Rainbow Flag Award 2022 & Rainbow Flag Award 2025

The Edmondsley Primary School are pleased to announce that we have achieved the Rainbow Flag Award.

The Rainbow Flag Award is a national quality assurance framework for primary schools, secondary schools and SEND schools. The award focuses on positive LGBT+, (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, plus other related identities), inclusion and visibility. The Rainbow Flag Award encourages a whole school approach to positive LGBT+ inclusion, as well as developing strategies to effectively challenge and combat LGBTphobic bullying.

Edmondsley Primary School – Rainbow Flag Award Certificate (Nov 22)

Edmondsley Primary School – Rainbow Flag Award Certificate (March 25)

Durham Police and Crime Commissioner’s Challenge

Children from Edmondsley Primary School participated in Durham Police and Crime commissioner’s Challenge by giving a little extra to make our area safer, stronger and more resilient to crime and anti-social behaviour. Our focus was keeping our family, friends and neighbours safe. Well done!

Durham Police and Crime Commissioner’s Challenge Certificate

PE and Sports Teaching and Learning Summer 2023

We are proud to announce that Edmondsley Primary and Nursery School has been awarded the Gold Award for our PE and Sports teaching and learning. This has been accredited by the School Sports Partnership in conjunction with the School Games Scheme.

It has been awarded to recognise the hard work of all children to lead active and healthy lives as well as the dedication of all staff to promote this ethos. We have shown this by inter and intra school competitions which we regularly take part in, the leadership opportunities within sport which our children are given and the curricular and extra-curricular provision which we offer.

International School Award 2021-2024

Edmondsley Primary School started working towards this award in 2019 when Mrs Anderson visited Tanzania and made links with Mapinduzi School in Moshi. Our link school came to visit us and worked with our staff and children in Edmondsley. We all learned about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our visitors even came with us on a school trip to Alnwick Castle! Following this, our children did some work developing/embedding the sustainable development goals and we sent this to our link school in Tanzania. The children loved seeing our work and we enjoyed reading theirs. Their English was excellent! We continued to forge links between schools by taking part in some challenges relating to the goals. Edmondsley are continuing to teach the children about the SDGs and about our wider world through our curriculum.

Edmondsley Primary School – International School Award Certificate

Healthy Schools Award 2020

At Edmondsley Primary School, we understand the importance and benefits of a curriculum which embraces a positive mind and body through developing healthy lifestyle choices. Staff work hard to focus on giving the children the very best in Physical Education, Healthy Eating Education, Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education and Social and Emotional Mental Health.

This hard work was rewarded when we achieved the Healthy School Status which recognises our dedication to health and well-being for our whole school community.

Eco Schools Award 2020

We were delighted to have our Eco Schools Award renewed. We have continued to promote a whole school approach with everyone embracing the Eco Schools Programme of education for sustainable development.

Edmondsley Primary School – Echo Schools Award

Sainsbury’s School Games Gold Kitemark Award 2019

Edmondsley Primary School has achieved the Gold School Games Mark award for their commitment, engagement and delivery of competitive school sport in 2018/19.

Artsmark Silver Award

Edmondsley has a strong commitment to supporting an arts and culturally rich curriculum. This is supported by whole school arts planning, arts delivery in and out of school, by both teaching staff and local artists, and underpinned by the School Council for pupil voice, pupil engagement in showcasing (such as the art exhibition).