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Stars Of The Week

Well done to our latest Stars Of The Week and Readers Of The Week, lots of reasons to celebrate our children’s achievements this week.

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Y2 Science

For our Living Things and Their Habitats topic, we have been out in our school grounds investigating microhabitats. We conducted a survey to discover which mini-beasts we could find. We had a great time turning over logs, looking in cracks in trees and spotting lots of creatures. It was interesting to see the mini-beasts in their natural habitats and we …

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Football News

Our B Team played in the Turns Family Cup Tournament tonight. They played three games, winning one and drawing two. Luckily, they did enough to go through to the final on goal difference. They all played brilliantly, worked well as a team and showed great sportsmanship. Well done!  

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Football News

After a long season break, our school football teams had a league match tonight against Ropery Walk. The B Team played first and attacked and defended well. The two teams were evenly matched and this was reflected in the score of 1-1. Our goal came from Perseus. A special mention to Oliver who stepped up and did a great job …

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Stars Of The Week

Congratulations to our latest Stars Of The Week. Lots of excellent reasons for children to be awarded their certificates this week. A special well done to our Readers Of The Week too. Our children continue to demonstrate excellent reading skills and enthusiasm.

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Football Fixtures

Please see below for our football fixtures for the remainder of the season. All support is welcome.

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Friends of St Cuthbert’s Newsletter

Our latest news from our ‘Friends’ group including planned Easter discos.

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Year 1 World Book Day and Adam Bushnell Visit

We had a really good day on World Book Day. We all came dressed as a word and had a visit from Adam Bushnell. We watched a rocket ship landing on Mars and designed our own rocket ship. We then looked at the way that Alex Scheffler designed the aliens in the story The Smeds and the Smoos and drew …

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Y5 Adam Bushnell Visit

Adam Bushnell visited us in Y5 today to talk to us about the life of local saint, St. Cuthbert. We enjoyed looking at some Viking artifacts from the time period and designed our own Viking character using the artifacts as inspiration. We learnt all about St. Cuthbert’s early life and his journey to becoming a saint as well as all …

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Year 5 World Book Day

Year 5 World Book Day We had a fantastic World Book Day and some amazing ideas for dressing up as a word! We enjoyed a very lively assembly with Adam Bushnell retelling the story of the Minotaur and spent some time creating our very own Spanish mini books – La Oruga Muy Hambrienta. Can you guess the story? Mrs Parlett’s …

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Year 5 Class Worship

Year 5 Class Worship Our focus in RE for the past few weeks has been ‘memorial sacrifice’.  We have explored what makes a memory important and how memories are kept alive in our families, in our British culture and in religions.  We remembered how Jesus asked his friends at the last supper to remember His sacrifice when they shared bread …

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Year 4 – Youth Village Retreat

What an amazing few days Year 4 had on our residential at the Youth Village with the Youth Ministry Team! The theme of the retreat was the adventures of St Paul. The children learned that you can always have a change of heart and we are all unique with our special gifts and talents. The children especially loved the escape …

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Year 6 World Book Day

Year 6 enjoyed visiting our school library and selecting a book or a genre they would not usually choose as well as looking at what new books the library has to offer.  

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Stars of the Week

Well done to our Stars Of The Week. Awards were given out for being a helping, lovely writing, improved letter formation and being a great role model amongst other things. Our Readers Of The Week were also awarded a certificate and a pencil or a badge. Well done everyone.

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Road Safety Competition

Our Junior Road Safety Officers (Harriet & Robbie) had a tricky time choosing the winners of our competition as they were all brilliant. They decided to choose two winners from each class and did not look at who had sent in which entries to make it fair. Here are our winners: Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 …

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Super Worm Year 1

In Year 1, we have been reading Super Worm by Julia Donaldson. We have been finding out lots of interesting facts about worms and made our very own fact files. We have also been finding out how to make a worm farm. We have followed a set of instructions on how to make our own worm farm and then we …

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Y2 Capacity

We have been measuring in maths and just before half term we were learning all about millilitres and litres.  Mrs Wilkinson set us a challenge to design our own mocktail. We could use as many of the juices as we liked but our mocktail had to have a volume of 300ml.  We enjoyed our challenge and then measured the juices …

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Masses and Liturgical Prayer During Lent

Please see below for a list of Masses and Liturgical Prayer Dates during Lent.

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World Book Day School Lunch

On Thursday 2nd March we will be offering a theme lunch celebrating World Book Day. If your child currently has a packed lunch and would like to have a school lunch on 2nd March please contact the school office by Wednesday 1st March. See below for the menu choices.

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Year 5 Summarising Skills

Year 5 Summarising Skills Our next history focus in Year 5 is ‘Changes in Britain after 1750’, especially changes in Seaham. Our first lesson used our summarising skills, which we practise in English lessons. Each group was given an important change that happened during the Industrial Revolution and we had to create a mime that summarised the important pieces of …

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