Rights Respecting

Now the weather has started to improve, children from Y6 have kindly helped with the upkeep of our new prayer garden ready for classes to begin taking part in their liturgical prayers in this lovely outdoor prayer space.  

Gold Standard Superstars A big well done to the children who achieved 3 Gold Standard pieces of work this week.  They visited Mrs Parlett and Mrs Noble’s stationery ‘tuck shop’ for a little treat. We have been using a new handwriting scheme in school and are aiming high for amazing presentation in all our work – you can see our …

Year 6 Liturgical Prayer

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 …

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.  

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.

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 …

https://cafod.enthuse.com/pf/st-cuthberts-primary-school We are taking part this Lent with the CAFOD Big Walk. We did this last year and were very successful, exceeding our target of 200km and £200. Every child in school will be walking everyday to contribute to helping us achieve this target. Please show your support and make a donation using the link below to sponsor them on …

Gymnastics Stars A big well done to our 6 gymnastics teams, 2 individual competitors and 2 creative gymnasts who took part in this morning’s Key Steps competition and this afternoon’s gymnastics festival.  We are all so proud of your teamwork, your effort in learning routines and how well you supported one another. It has been lovely to hear feedback from …

Yesterday we launched the Mission Together “Lent through a lens” competition. We are asking all children over half term to take a photograph of something which they think represents Lent. On the back of the entry sheets there is some space for children to generate ideas to help them to decide what to photograph. All entries submitted will be judged …

Step Up To The Plate Our brilliant Year 5 children learned all about global food poverty as part of some work about natural resources in geography. Using the CAFOD campaign for inspiration as well as Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti message, we thought about how imbalanced our food systems are where so much is wasted but 1 in 10 people go …

SHOW YOU CARE, PARK ELSEWHERE! Harriet and Robbie, who are in Y6, have been working tirelessly to think of ways to help with the ongoing traffic issues we have at the end of the school day. They identified that cars are parking too close to the gates making it difficult for them to turn around without coming into the school …

Chinese New Year Lunch Jan and her team will be preparing a special Chinese New Year menu on Tuesday 24th January. If your child usually has packed lunch and you would like them to take part, please contact Mrs McGann in the school office.

It is always lovely to have buddy time but this one was special being able to exchange christmas cards we had made and do some christmas craft.

It was wonderful to see so many young scientists take part in this half terms science club. We ended our club recapping our learning, talking about our favourite parts and giving feedback for what they would like to learn next time. Then we explored some already famous scientists and began looking at how scientists are portrayed in books and on …

In year 6 we have been developing confidence in our own ability and taking pride in our work. To help develop our self-esteem we are now doing a weekly show and tell. Any child who is proud of something they have done that week can share it with others. Their friends can either give a compliment or ask a question.  …

Congratulations to our Stars Of The Week for this week. Children in KS1 and KS2 were awarded certificates for some amazing things this week. Keep up it up! Children were also awarded certificates and a special pencil for being Reader Of The Week. It was lovely to hear about children enjoying and promoting reading to their friends. A big well …

This weeks science club were exploring magnetism and investigating materials which were magnetic. First we looked at what happened when we put the different poles together and then what happened when we put the same poles together. Next we had a challenge to see who could pick up the most paper clips with their magnet Then we completed some mazes …

Year 6 delivered a wonderful collective prayer to the whole school and their families on Friday, reminding us why November 11th is remembrance day, what we remember and why we remember, reading from John’s Gospel and observing a quiet meditation and 2 minute silence. “Go home and tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today.” …