Year 4 News

Y4 were given the opportunity to attend a tennis festival. Four children took part in a competition against other schools playing actual tennis matches. Ten children had a go at some skills to try to beat their own scores as they challenged themselves. The skills included throwing things at targets, passing a tennis ball around a circle using only the …

Last week, Y4 took part in a combat survival adventure day provided by Team Challenge Adventures. They had to work in teams to solve problems and win soldiers for their armies to help rescue The General. The day was filled with lots of different activities including; speed and accuracy, team work, problem solving, and logic puzzles. Everyone joined in to …

Click the link to see the Year 4,5 and 6 Dance Festival performance. Dance Festival Video

Last week, Dance Club took part in the Sports Partnerships Dance Festival. Our children had a chance to show other schools what they had been working on over the year. Our Dance Club was made up of children from years 4, 5 and 6 and they have all worked really hard especially as they were not always able to be …

Parent Appointments We will be holding face to face parent appointments after the Easter holiday on Thursday 28th April. If you would like to make an appointment, please select your child’s class below and complete the attached form. Please make a note of the time you select as this will not be sent out to you separately. Reception Class Year …

A big thank you to all of our families who have been so generous in their donations this week for our Ukraine appeal – as you can see we collected a lot in a very short space of time. Mrs Kharko and some of our children sorted everything and it was collected on Friday. As a Rights Respecting School we …

As homework, Y4 were asked to complete a project about The Romans. They could present this in any way they wanted and they did not disappoint! We had models, swords, shields, posters, information booklets and even a Colosseum! The children presented their projects to the class then enjoyed exploring and discovering each other’s work.

Wow! Congratulations to our amazing gymnastics stars!  Gold medals for our Y1/2 A team and Y5/6 A team and silver medals for our Y3/4 A team. Our Y3/4 B Team just missed out on medals but came third. Well done to our brilliant Y5 second place champ who will now go through to County Finals!  A huge well done to …

Government guidelines on isolation change on Monday 17th January. Please see the most up to day guidelines below.   If you have any questions about a specific case out of school hours, please contact Mrs Noble or Mrs Parlett:  n.noble@stcuthbertsprimary.com e.parlett@stcuthbertsprimary.com Latest COVID updates from government Information for Parents and Carers from Department for Education

Happy New Year to all our children and families! We are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school tomorrow and beginning our spring term. Amid the increasing numbers of COVID cases, we would like to reassure you that we will continue to follow Local Authority, Trust and governmental guidance and will continually assess the ever-changing situation. At St. …

Last week, Key Stage 2 were visited by local author and artist Kylie Dixon. The children listened to a book reading of Kylie’s new book and were shown how to draw some of the characters that appear in the story. Kylie also brought some of her artwork to show the children different techniques with different media. She shared some great …

Last week, Year 4 visited the Sunderland Empire theatre to see The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. They have been reading the book and exploring The Chronicles of Narnia in their English lessons this term. The performance was amazing and everyone enjoyed the experience.

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As you may have seen recently, many refugees have been uprooted and relocated from Afghanistan to the North East of England. The SVP society at St Cuthbert’s House are collecting donations for these families. Our Mini Vinnies group in school are appealing for toiletries, games, toys, scarves, hats and gloves for adults and children.  Mrs Strong and our Mini Vinnies children …

Instead of parent meetings in school, we will be phoning parents for an update this term. Please click on the link below for your child’s class and select the time slot you would like.  PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THE TIME YOU SELECT WHEN YOU SELECT IT. Office staff do not have access to these forms so will be unable …

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 Y4 children have been baking biscuits again this afternoon. They were able to weigh out ingredients, prepare and roll out the dough and then cut and shape their biscuits. They added some delicious chocolate chips to the mixture too. The biscuits smelled beautiful while they were baking and will be cooled and wrapped for the children to collect in …

On Monday, Y4 began their cookery DT topic with some biscuit tasting. We discussed the different tastes, textures, ingredients and packaging that the biscuits came in. The first group had the opportunity to make some biscuits. They did very well with weighing and measuring ingredients, using techniques such as the rubbing method and the creaming method and cutting their shapes. …

How lovely to be all back together this week for whole school assemblies!