Colegate Community Primary School is a co-educational Primary School catering for pupils from the ages of 3 to 11 years. The School has a 30 place purpose built nursery, offering five morning or afternoon sessions to pupils. The main school is made up of two buildings, East Block and West Block which house the older and younger children respectively. Adjacent to each building there are two yards and the school also has the advantage of a large on-site playing field.
Colegate is a popular and well respected school in the area and is one of the larger primary schools in Gateshead L.E.A. The school catchment area serves the western part of Leam Lane.
The school was inspected by Ofsted in March 2003 and inspectors described Colegate as a good school with many very good features. Teaching was seen to be good and as a result pupils achieve well. The School’s work with pupils with Special Needs was described as very good as was the quality of the curriculum and staff comitment to raising achievement. Pupils were described as having “very good attitude to learning, relationships are good and pupils behave well�.
The school received a School Improvement Award in July 2001 and an Investor in People Award in 2002 and 2005, a Basic Skills Award in 2002. In 2003 the school gained the International School Award and a Silver Artsmark in 2004 as well as Activemark for the work done in promoting physical education. Colegate School aims to constantly improve in all areas of its work and we are always happy to share our School Improvement Plan with parents or interested parties.