Year 6 News

Year 6 have been learning about how the finches discovered on the Galapagos island by Charles Darwin informed his theory of evolution by natural selection. We used different sized objects which represented the size of the food accessible across the island as well as using spoons, tweezers, a peg and toothpicks to replicate the different beak types. It was clear …

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 …

Our Friends of St Cuthbert’s Group have organised an Autumn Disco. Please see below for details.

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/

This term, in our History lessons, Y6 have been exploring crime and punishment throughout different time periods. Today, we were investigating the Victorian period and Y6 were sentenced to ‘hard labour’ in a Victorian prison. We had a go at some activities such as picking oakam, the tread wheel, standing still and stretching and moving a heavy weight backwards and …

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.

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!  

Year 6 have enjoyed music lessons this half term with Mr Robinson, from St.Bede’s. We have used Kodaly to help with our singing, sang with a melody, bass and harmony as well as composing our own riffs inspired by the song “ain’t no mountain high enough” all while building on our knowledge of syncopation. This week we even explored the …

Autumn Term Clubs – Half Term 1 We have several clubs running this half term. Please follow the link if you would like to book a place for your child. Please note that places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Different clubs will be on offer throughout the year. MONDAY:  Year 1 & 2 Gymnastics Club …

PE days beginning from Monday 11th September.

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 …

Year 6 have completed their Faith In Action Award and celebrated by preparing a final liturgical prayer for Mrs Balls, the chaplin from St.Bede’s who has helped them to complete their award this year, Mrs Noble and Father Marc. They were very inspired from their visit to the primary youth festival and included songs they enjoyed and it inspired them …

The theme of this year’s Youth Festival was “bold and brave” and was perfect as the messages really related to the children as they are going to be bold and brave as they move onto secondary school. There was lots of singing and dancing (photographs are hard to get when they were having so much fun) After completing some activities …

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 …