Year 6 News

The final curry was an overall success. Even those who were less confident to try it did and some were pleasantly surprised.

After learning about the origins of the traditional curry and food hygiene in DT, year 6 helped to prepare a vegetable korma. The children took responsibility to ensure all surfaces were cleaned before and after use and there was regular hand washing throughout- especially after cutting onions. They cut, peeled, crushed, stirred and seasoned all in preparation for tasting tomorrow. …

In our Judaism topic this week we were learning about the Jewish Festival of Sukkot. During Sukkot, Jewish people remember when God freed them from slavery in Egypt. After they left Egypt, the Jewish people wandered in the desert for forty years, trying to find a place to settle. Along the way, they built temporary homes out of dry palms …

We are very proud of our girls football team who performed very well on Wednesday in the Bishop Cup tournament.  

At the end of Mass on Monday our Year 6 Mini-Vinnies invited families and parishioners to join us on Tuesday 18th October to pray the Rosary for the ACN International – “A million children pray the Rosary” campaign where the focus of our prayers go towards peace and unity in the world.

Year 5 and Year 6 enjoyed going to Mass on Monday where Father Marc gave us the mission going forward to show kindness to one another. Visiting church would not be complete without a photograph with Father Marc.

Well Done! A huge well done to our Cross Country teams yesterday! They ran like the wind and we are so proud of them all – especially when running up the hill! We have had our best results in a long time with our Y1/2 girls placing second and super fast Ada coming first!  Year 3/4 girls also came second …

Our Year 6 buddies have really helped our Reception Class to settle into their new school. They have looked after us at playtimes and produced a lovely assembly for our grown ups to show them some of the fun things we have to look forward to during our time at St Cuthberts. Thank you buddies you have been great!

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 …