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Day 1 – Children’s Mental Health Week

To help celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week and to raise awareness, we are learning about the 5 Ways To Well-Being. Each day, we find out about a different way and try out some activities and techniques to help improve our well-being. Monday – Connect We discussed the importance of connecting with others and the difference between being alone and being …

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Children’s Mental Health Week

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. We started our week with a Celebration of the Word with the theme of Busyness to Peace. Our reading was from Mark’s Gospel. “In the morning, long before dawn, He got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there.”                …

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Celebrating Chinese New Year

Our lovely kitchen staff are offering a Chinese treat to celebrate Chinese New Year on Tuesday 6th February. Please see the picture below for menu choices. If your child normally has school dinner, they will automatically be offered this meal choice. If your child has packed lunch but would like to take part in this celebration meal, please let the …

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Y5 Art

In Year 5, we have been creating dragon eyes in art. We used art pencils to draw the shapes of the scales and the eyeball and outlined them using fine-liners. We investigated colour wheels and looked at complementary and contrasting colours. We experimented with warm and cool colours and tried blending different shades together to get a graduated effect. We …

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Y3 Computing

For our computing unit this half term, Y3 are looking at using  Scratch Coding Activities. We began our first lesson by thinking about algorithms and how it is important to make instructions clear and in the correct order. We practised giving instructions to each other and found out how to adapt and improve them when things went wrong. We explored …

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Stars Of The Week

Well done to our latest Stars of the Week. Children received certificates for lots of different reasons this week including; excellent phonics and computing work, being engaged and enthusiastic in lessons and being helpful and kind. Keep up the good work.

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Y4 Art

In Year 4, we have started our new art topic for this term. We are studying art in architecture. We have learnt about some famous architects and looked at some examples of their work. This week, we were practising some different lines and experimented with shape, thickness and curves. We used these skills to help us to create a continuous …

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New PE Timetable

Spring Term 2024

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Christmas Activities in Year 1

We had a great last week at school. We played games and danced at our Christmas party, had a lovely Christmas dinner, met Santa, watched a show and watched a movie in our pyjamas, with a hot chocolate. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas Year 1.  

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Christmas Show

Children and staff would like to say a huge thank you to the Friends of St. Cuthbert’s group, who organised the wonderful Christmas show that the children visited this week. Everyone had a fantastic time laughing and singing songs; it really got us all in a festive mood.  

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The Last day of Term

We enjoyed our last day with some hot chocolate and a Christmas film. Well done Year 3 you have worked so well this term we hope you have a very Happy Christmas and New Year.  

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Y6 investigating colour

After learning about Sir Isaac Newton’s theory on colour and how we see colours, year 6 enjoyed exploring this further with some child-led investigations using coloured filters. They were amazed to see how the colour filters could be used to block out colours to reveal secret messages.

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Y6 Light Investigation

Year 6 have enjoyed their science topic about light this half term, exploring how we see and the phenomenons created by light. The year 6 children planned, delivered and concluded their own findings to this science investigation into the shadows cast by objects. Their initial question was, “what happens to the size of a shadow as the distance from the …

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Year 6’s Christmas Breakfast

Year 6 enjoyed ending the term with a christmas breakfast before their movie and hot chocolate. It is their last christmas as pupils of St.Cuthbert’s and it was important for us all to make the most of it. Most children in Year 6 were even brave enough to try “Buddy the Elf’s breakfast” recreated from the one he makes in …

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Blessing of our Baminellis

Father Marc came after Mass on Monday to bless our Bambinellis. Year 6 gave him his own Bambinelli. To learn more about Bambinelli Sunday, see the video below:

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Feliz Navidad

Year 6 enjoyed a christmas themed spanish lesson this week. They learnt some new vocabulary, read a story about a little tree who was helped by Santa before creating their own christmas cards for their families and writing inside in spanish whilst singing along to “feliz navidad.”  

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Mini Vinnies appeal for the local foodbank

Margaret and David from the adult SVP in our Parish came and collected what we had for the local food bank. The food bank, at Eastlea, were overwhelmed with the generosity from our school community and we know it will make a difference to the lives of others this Advent. The toy donations were delivered by Margaret and David to …

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Our Violin Concert

We were so proud of Year 3 who showed us all how hard they had been working with Mrs Sellars. They entertained us during their violin concert.Well done Year Three.  

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Christmas Party Day

We had so much fun at school today. In the morning we enjoyed our Christmas party where we danced and played lots of party games. In the afternoon it was off to the Town Hall where we enjoyed a super Christmas show lead by two elves where we sang and danced even more! A big thank you to the Friends …

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Year 2 Christmas Party & Show

Today we have had a very exciting day. This morning we went over to Seaham Town Hall to watch a Christmas performance called Merry Tinsel Toes. Then on the afternoon we had our Christmas party. We danced, played games and even managed to time for some party food.

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