Year 6 News

Our year 6 children had a special visit from their buddies last week during their SATs and they gave them a good luck card and Mrs Groark gave a lovely speech about how she has watched Y6 grow over the years.

Year 6 have fun in Science today creating a life-sized circulatory system. Thank you to Jude, Jack E, Rosa and Jacob for being our human templates.

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 …

Grown ups were treated to a demonstration from the after school fencing club tonight. Children got to show off all of the skills and tactics they had learnt in the last 5 weeks and even compete with the electrical equipment used in proper competitions. It was fabulous to see how much all of the children had grown and developed since …

Article 12 – the right to an opinion Year 6 were asked by Chadwick’s Kitchen to give some suggestions as to what they would like to see on the new menu. Year 6 were very happy to see today, when the new menus were issued, that they had taken into consideration some of their suggestions. We are looking forward to …

Well done to our Y6 children who attended the basketball tournament today. They played brilliantly, worked very well as a team and demonstrated excellent sporting values. They finished in 3rd place so we are very proud of them.

This week the children have showed real dedication to their Lent mission by collectively walking 595km towards their end of Lent target of 2000km. Each Class contributed to the Walk Against Hunger mission and are really proud they are able to make a difference. If you have not already, remember this year instead of sponsorship forms we are using a …

Jack and Isaac from Year 6 had been playing in the school grounds earlier this week and uncovered a real coin dating back to 1913. It was amazing to see the size of the coin and the King’s head which was on one side of it. This coin had been hidden in the mud for many years. Jack and Isaac …

Kane, Corey and Millie from Year 6 were invited by the Fiction Express team to meet the author Cethan Leahy whose book we had been sharing together each Friday. They were selected personally by the author for the outstanding contributions they had made answering questions from the author on the forum each week. This was such a fantastic opportunity for …

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 …

Some children in Y5 and Y6 enjoyed their first experience of fencing yesterday. The qualified coach showed them a range of skills and they were able to try them out while wearing the protective clothing. They learnt the names of the swords and even had a try of using them. We look forward to see what the coming weeks will …

Adam Bushnell visited year 6 to help write a descriptive piece about the Blitz in WW2. Along with rare footage of London, he brought along some exciting artefacts including a Tommy Gun, gas masks for children and babies and some replica smells of the time. The quality of the descriptions were fantastic given the short time frame to write.  

Year 6 enjoyed exploring the purpose being able to find the area and perimeter, working outdoors in their groups, using a range of measuring equipment.

Today, some of our Year 5 and 6 children represented our school in the Swimming Gala hosted by Easington Sports Partnership at Peterlee Leisure Centre. We had a fantastic morning competing in races using different swimming strokes. We won some of the heats and came 5th overall. Well done to all of the children that attended, they showed excellent sporting …

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 …

Today, some of our Y5 and Y6 pupils went to a Boccia competition. Both teams did extremely well and had a fabulous time. Well done on representing the school brilliantly.

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. …