My DC will be starting primary school in 2025 and we've only recently moved to Chester-le-Street (northeast, County Durham). I don't really know the area yet and am quite picky about schools, given my own experience and research. I'd like DC to be somewhere warm and nurturing (as would any parent). I'd like him to be at a school with high standards for both teaching and student behaviour - a school that gives compelling lessons but also values discipline and routine (of course these things are linked). It's also important to me that my DC goes to a school that doesn't do too much (if any) IT/tech based learning, as so many of them seem to these days.
These are the schools close enough for us to consider - does anyone have firsthand experience/recommendations of any of these schools which they could share, particularly if your criteria was similar to mine? Are there any schools here you were delighted with or would steer clear of? I'd be very grateful. :)
St Cuthbert's
Red Rose
Newker
Cestria
Chester-le-Street CE Primary
Bullion Lane