Welcome to our school website
I have great pleasure in welcoming you all to our new website. Saint Margaret Clitherows is first and foremost a family school, very proud of its strong Catholic ethos, standards and pastoral care, nurturing our young people as they continue on their faith journeys. Please feel free to browse around our website and see how your wonderful children and staff share their talents.
In our school we firmly believe that "Jesus is at the heart of everything we do".
"Everybody is somebody at Saint Margaret Clitherows"
Mrs N Jamalizadeh - Head Teacher.
What is life like in our school?
At St. Margaret Clitherow's School, we pride ourselves on being friendly and open to all. We love the boys and girls entrusted to us and take great pride in nuturing their academic, social and personal skills. Our teachers teach engaging and interesting lessons through a wide range of varied topics.
If you would like to find out more about what life is like in our school, we have a school blog which is updated regularly by our children. Our children like to share the things that they have done and learnt. Each class has two members on our website development team and they put together blog entries about their classwork. Click here to view our blog section. 
Through our topic work we have learnt about history, with the Romans and World War 2 being particular favourites. We have learnt about geography through current and world affairs such as the World Cup or the Olympics. We have even learnt science through exploding coke and water bottles!
The boys and girls from our Foundation Stage unit would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Elgey and the wonderful people at the Build Centre in Stockton for their generousity! We have taken delivery of a varied range of building materials in order to improve our outdoor area. The rest of the school enviously looked on with the excited FS children as a big wagon pulled up and used a big crane to unload some wooden sleepers, gravel and paving flags. Mrs Wilberforce excitedly exclaimed “We’re going to build a whole new story area!” The children gather around and talked about their new equipment. Although they all wanted to build a castle or a fort straight away, we had to explain that we would have to use Mr Flanagan’s expertise to help us put everything together. We are really grateful to Mr Elgey and the Build Centre in Stockton for such a fabulous gift! As soon as we’ve build up our new story area, we’ll have to put some photos on to show you!
In Year 3/4, the children have recently each been issued with an iPod touch. Through the selection of specialist educational apps, the children are able to bring their learning into the 21st century. Some children even take their devices home and extend their learning beyond the classroom. For a selection of some of our more favourite apps, visit our app page!
We celebrate achievements in school through rewards and prizes given throughout the school year:
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Our house system puts each child into a house and they earn house points through excellent work and effort.
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Golden Tickets are given to reward children who show the right attitude in school.
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Our Head Teacher's award is given weekly by the Head Teacher to children who have stood out for any reason!
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We celebrate our best writers with their being being given pride of place on the notice board on the playground for all to see!
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Finally, our SMC (sensible, mature, caring) award is given termly to those with the best attitudes in school.
Our children like to keep fit and we encourage all children to take part in many different sports clubs. We offer a comprehensive sporting curriculum and we take part in local sports partnership events. We are particularly proud of our efforts in Football, Hockey, Netball and X-Country where we have traditionally done very well! We ask that all our children attempt and try their best to enjoy exercise, games and fitness - winning is not always important, having fun and being sporting is!
Being at S.M.C (our given nickname) and being part of our school family is a special place to be. Please have a look around our website and find out more for yourself!
