School Teams

The school community has five teams. The team names were selected to highlight significant individuals from history who are local to our school.

Team Cookson – Catherine Cookson
Team Darling – Grace Darling
Team Grey – Earl Grey
Team Stephenson – George Stephenson
Team Swan – Joseph Swan

Throughout their time at school, the children will learn about the individuals. (EYFS – Cookson, Darling, Grey, Stephenson and Swan as a brief introduction, Year 1 – Stephenson, Year 2 – Darling, Year 3 – Grey, Year 4 – Swan. All year groups reference Cookson during Book Week).

Children are awarded team points as a form of reward, praise, encouragement and recognition, with the reasons for these being awarded are linked to the children’s:

Academic achievements
Attitude to learning and life
Good manners
Behaviour
Relationships with others
Awareness of the world around them
Archibald Core Values

To highlight the community aspect of the teams we:

Host sports days in teams.
Have team days each term where staff plan activities for their teams.
Design team challenges.

A VIP Day is held at the end of every half term for the winning team. To make this a celebration we:

Invite the children to wear non–uniform.
Host a VIP dinner table with the children coming into the lunch hall first.
Ensure the VIP children in each year group are recognized throughout the day with gestures such as going first in the line, making decisions within the classroom.

Team Stephenson Team Cookson Team Grey