Year 6 News

Thank You, Your Majesty: Art Club Tribute to HRH Queen Elizabeth II Our Year 5 and 6 art club spent their first session creating some stunning portraits of our late queen to display in our entrance way along with some of the prayers of our children. Article 15: We have the right to join groups Article 29: Education should develop …

House Point Winners – George House Group! Well done to George House Group who earned the most points overall for their amazing behaviour around school this half term. As it was such a hot day on Tuesday, we decided to have some fun in the shade and cool down!  

Well done to our KS2 violinists and guitarists. What a lovely performance from you all. It was great to welcome our parents back into school too. Year 3 have come to the end of our First Access to violins and they were absolutely amazing. They now have the opportunity to continue their learning with Mrs Sellers in Year 4, 5 …

Today Jack from year 6 and Corbin from year 2 chose to spend their own time collecting litter from around the school grounds. Jack, who has been part of the Eco Council this year, is very passionate about caring for our common home and we are so proud of these 2 boys and their dedication not only to looking after …

Year 6 have been working all year towards their faith in action award. This award encourages the children to experience their faith and reflect carefully throughout. They created some great online prayer journals outlining how they were experiencing their faith, how it brought them closer to God and how they acted moving forward. They explored themes like God’s love and …

Year 6 had an amazing day at the Primary Youth Festival ran by the amazing staff at the YMT. We sung, danced, laughed, shook our pom-poms all before reflecting more carefully on this years theme of “stepping into the unknown.” We all took part in a liturgy at the end of the day and Oscar and Lydia (our head boy …

We would like to give Freddie, in year 6, a huge congratulations for making to the athletics county finals for shotput and achieving third place overall! This is a fantastic achievement! Well done 🙂

We have had 2 more fantastic days thanks to Adventure Access but this time we were at the Marina in Seaham. A perfect site right on our doorstep. The weather was ideal for 2 days at the beach and we were all glad to be able to go into the sea to cool down.  We would all like to give …

Another amazing day thanks to Adventure Access. Today we were along the beautiful Durham Riverside where we took part in canoeing and rock climbing. Canoeing Along the riverside we worked in teams canoe up the river where we stopped to play some games. We all got very competitive playing battleships and tested our balance when playing the fruit game which …

Year 6 had a fantastic time on day 1 of their residential at Brancepeth. Bushcraft During our bushcraft session, the children had to forage for natural resources and made their own shelters. We tried tasting some sorrow which we found which the children decided was either unpleasant or tasted like apples. This was followed by creating our own fires and …

The children, who will be going to St.Bede’s Catholic School in September, were invited to lead a liturgy in the Chapel at the school. They were joined by Mrs Cessford (Headteacher), Mrs Ord (Head of RE) and Mrs Balls (Chaplin) as well as Mrs Noble and Miss Huntley. The children lead the liturgy and hymns exceptionally and it was a …

Year 6 spent a morning in Church with Deacon Peter taking part in an exposition. As we are in the Year of the Eucharist and leading up to the feast of Corpus Christi it seemed like a good way to reflect more closely on the significance of the Eucharist. We spent time in silent reflection, combined with words from Deacon …

The Y5 and Y6 girls cricket competition took place at Castle Eden Cricket Club yesterday. The girls worked brilliantly as a team and showed excellent sporting values. After winning lots of their matches, the team made it to the final and came second overall. We are very proud of their achievement.

Year 6 are really enjoying learning about medicine through the ages. Today we looked at the role of plague doctors and why they dressed in such peculiar outfits. Kane came dressed for the part! Very practical although slightly alarming!

This morning we all went to church to crown Mary. We have been learning that May is the month of Mary. Our First Holy Communion children have been leading the rosary at parish mass each Saturday afternoon and today they led us in a decade of the Rosary before we crowned Mary. Well done also to our graceful dancers who …

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A massive shout out to our Year 6 sports leaders that attended the Year 2 outdoor adventure day yesterday at Shotton Hall! They demonstrated excellent leadership skills and were excellent ambassadors of our school. All children led the activities that they  were responsible for with great confidence and they had so many positive comments from not only the sports partnership, …

On Thursday 19th May our Dance Club took part in the Sports Partnership Dance Showcase at Blackhall Community Centre where selected schools had been chosen to showcase their dances. Our Dance Club did such a wonderful performance again. We are so proud of what they have achieved, having the courage to get up on stage in front of over 250 …

Year 6 had great fun today learning about prehistoric medicine and the role of medicine men in tribes. We foraged for our own ingredients to make remedies to treat our patients. The remedies are rather revolting but apparently effective… Tribe 1 – impaled by a wild boar’s tusk while out hunting Tribe 2 – a flint spear was removed from …