Rights Respecting

As part of our Y6 Judaism topic at the end of last half term we learnt about the Jewish festival, Sukkot. This is the festival of shelters which is a reminder of when their people were freed from slavery and went into the desert for 40 years. They had to build shelters with only God to protect them. This tradition …

Please see our clubs page for a link to the clubs we are offering for the second half of Autumn Term. https://www.stcuthbertsprimary.com/clubs/

Year 6 enjoyed their first careers conversation today as part of their Positive Footprints, Raising Aspirations programme. Today’s guest was an architect. The children were surprised to hear that it is a career for anyone who is both interested in science and art.

Year 5 shared their celebration of the Word with on Friday with a theme focusing on Harvest. Their Gospel reading was the feeing of the 5000 and their mission was to help fill our foodbank to support our local community

Last week year 6 enjoyed a glow party “dance with me” session with Sophie from the sports partnership. This was good for wellbeing as well as a great way to get active and have fun!  

Reception class shared a wonderful liturgical prayer with us on Friday all about friendship.

We enjoyed celebrating the feast of St.Peter and St.Paul. Our children took part in a liturgical prayer, took part in the assembly hosted by Mark 10 Mission and enjoyed a day of fun, painting stones to go into the prayer garden and learning more about these two amazing saints, all while raising money for the Mark 10 Mission. Thank you …

Amazing Athletes! A huge well done to Matthew. Roman and Finley in Year 6 (who had already amazed us by getting to County level) for their amazing success as part of the Easington team at County Finals today.  Gold medal for triple jump, bronze medal for shot, 4th place for sprint and gold medal for the relay, helping the Easington …

We would like to thanks Adventure Access to a brilliant 4 days. All of our children enjoyed the activities put together and they were very supportive and encouraging making sure all children were able to access the activities and try new things. For more information about Adventure Access and what they offer, please check out their website https://adventureaccess.co.uk/  or their Facebook …

Beach school was lots of fun! Tide was out and we were able to explore the rock pools. On day 3 we cooked marshmallows over an open fire after rock pooling and finding sea glass. Day 4 we were able to find live creatures in the rock pools and bring them back to base to look at them more closely …

Weather was in our favour on our last 2 days down the Marina with Adventure Access. Paddle boarding

Year 6 showed great resilience today and did not let the torrential rain stop them having lots of fun. Battlezone archery was great fun. Children had to work in teams to get their opponents out using real bows and arrows (with a protective covered on the tip)   Bushcraft with good fun with Libby and Paul from Adventure Access. We …

Year 6 had great fun on the water canoeing, playing games and the thing they wanted to do the most in the heat – jump in! (Pictures were more tricky to get with the amount of splashing going on!)   The children were also able to take part in a caving activity. 18 metres of caving system for them to …

Year 6 really enjoyed ending their Friday afternoon with a glow party with Sophie from the sports partnership.  

Y5 Pretzel Making Year 5 enjoyed their DT topic before half term where they learned about the Pretzel Story, how bread rises using yeast, about altering flavours and most importantly making our very own pretzels. A huge thank you to Jan in the kitchen for helping us with this! We are following this up with a careers webinar with a …

This week in Year 5 we have been learning how to debate, even when we don’t fully agree with a viewpoint. So far, we have discussed whether teenagers should be sent to prison linking to our new class text ‘Holes’, we have debated whether Sundays should be kept as a day of rest linking to our Freedom & Responsibility topic …

Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Year 3’s food bank appeal.

Caring for our common home is a catholic social teaching principle children at St.Cuthbert’s value very much and are always keen to find ways to look after our Earth. Article 6 is very child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential. Article 24 is every …