SOCIAL inclusion for all children is pivotal at Roseberry Community School in Great Ayton.
All 239 pupils are encouraged to mix by taking part in a vast range of activities from football, drama and French to dancing, and theres even a brand new climbing wall.
Responsibilities are given to kind-hearted students, who meet others in designated areas to ensure everyone has someone to play with.
Then theres the play leading pupils, who are trained to mediate and prevent bullying.
Wearing caps and tabards, their friendly playground presence encourages pupils to play nicely? together.
Equality through democracy is also positively encouraged, through the young members of the school council who add their opinions to school decisions.
Headteacher Jacky Warburton told Gazette People: Since I started here three years ago I have seen great developments.
The building has been refurbished and we have a new school uniform.
We have a breakfast club and a Men Behaving Dadly Club, where fathers come to interact with their children.
We focus a lot on praise to help the children achieve, and encourage them and the parents to become involved.?
The children grow their own vegetables, study different cultures and food, and have at least two hours exercise every week.
Fresh home-cooked meals are also on offer for lunch, and well-behaved pupils with good manners get to sit at the star table? and eat off star-shaped plates.
Rated as good by Ofsted, the school won the Basic Skills Quality Mark twice and is now working towards attaining Healthy School status.
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I really love this school and its great its stepped another step forward. i left this school last year as i moved house. But this could of never happened without mrs.Warburton.