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Year 5 and Year 6 visited Seaham Park Cenotaph today to take part in a liturgy before observing a 2 minutes silence, remembering the significance of today. They reflected on the soldiers in WW1 who lost their lives as well as reflecting on service men and women who have since fought bravely and gave their lives for our country. We …

We are so proud of the children in Y6 who received their first Holy Communion on Saturday surrounded by friends, staff and family. They celebrated receiving their sacrament in school on Monday with their friends. Our children receiving their first Holy Communion. Saturday 6th November 2021.   Celebrating with friends, party food, music and a special cake.

In Tuesday’s club, we explored LINE. How can we create different lines? Thin or thick? Straight or wavy or spiky? Solid or dotted or dashed?  We enjoyed creating these autumnal zentangles with sharpies then filling them with watercolour to make them look more 3D.

Our Little Library Club was lots of fun after school today. We shared a great story, Room On The Broom, and completed some design and colouring activities. The children were then able to explore the books in the library and choose one to take and enjoy at home. They can change their book next week or keep the same book …

We are so proud to say we have recently achieved our gold rights respecting award. This has been an ongoing journey for both staff and children in school since receiving our silver award in 2018. This is the highest accolade awarded by UNICEF UK. We will continue to teach our children about their rights and continue campaigning.   If you …

At the start of the year our JRSO’s Katy, Lydia and Ella met with two firemen who wanted to speak to children and parents at the end of the school day to educate them on keeping safe on the roads. The project was called ‘EDWARD’ (Every day without a road death). The children took part in Road Safety Week and …

Naomi from the D.L.I came to visit year 6 to help them learn more about how people were affected by WW1. The first part of the workshop explored the lives of the soldiers. The children used both primary and secondary sources of evidence to learn more about them and their experience of WW1, all of which were very different to …

In Year 1, we have been reading The Gingerbread Man. Yesterday the children were shown footage of the Gingerbread Man in our classroom with his friends. We really want to find him, so we are making our very own missing posters.

Dear Parent/Guardian, Protecting Children Against Influenza (Flu) and Complications The nasal influenza vaccination is being offered to all children in Reception-Year 11. Our team is scheduled to visit St Cuthberts SEAHAM this Autumn as part of this programme. If you would like your child to receive this immunisation in school, please ensure your consent form has been submitted within one …

Take a look at the shoebox trenches year 6 made over half term.

Today some of our children attended the Hi-5 netball festival. There were seven schools in total and the girls showed excellent communication and team-work on their way to a third place finish overall. Well done girls!

The Year 1 children had a visit from the firefighters on Tuesday to learn about fire safety. The children had a look around their fire engine and all had a turn at using their hose.

Both of our teams were playing in a league fixture tonight against Ryhope Juniors. The A-Team took an early lead but Ryhope quickly levelled the score and scored another to make the score 2-1 to them. In the second half, we didn’t give up and kept at them. There were goals galore in the second half and the score finished …

Year 6 enjoyed writing some 12 word stories based on the animation, Alma. To help create the spooky atmosphere we used torches, a darkened room and thought about how we would read the story aloud.  

COP26 Since returning to school in September, our year six children have been looking at the effects of global warming. We took part in a virtual conference with other schools both in the UK and overseas. As part of this, our children (and staff) all made a pledge to show what they are willing to do combat climate change.

The children in Year 1 had a special book delivery. They loved spending time reading the new books in our classroom.

Today, we celebrated World Mental Health Day. The children had the opportunity to take part in many activities to raise awareness of Mental Health and help promote good Mental Health in themselves and others. We talked about our similarities and differences and learnt some new words, uniformity and diversity. Uniformity is when things are the same – we wear our …

Doing things you enjoy is very good for your mental health  

We enjoyed spending some time with our buddies on mental health awareness day. Seeing our buddies makes us happy. We took part in an outdoor scavenger hunt.

Our B Team played their first tournament of the season tonight. They were absolutely fantastic! We had three matches to play and were on amazing form. The first game was played against Westlea and our boys won. Dominic scored a cracking goal from outside the box! Finley and Dominic worked really well upfront with some excellent passing and striking. The …