Year 6 News

Return To School Information September 2021 When we return to school in September, many of the COVID restrictions we have been working under since March 2020 will be removed, however schools still need to bear in mind that local are restrictions may be put in place. The policies below have been updated in light of these changes and include daily …

After the serious athletics activities, we enjoyed some old school races. Watch our video here  

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Working with Chris and Matthew from Adventure Access at the Marina was amazing. They showed us how to kayak and paddle board before playing games with us in the sea and letting us swim. It was great fun trying these new sports and swimming was good, even if the sea was very cold! We are very lucky to have these …

We worked with the wonderful Hannah from Playology Beach School to explore rock pools and make shelters before sitting back, enjoying our beautiful scenery and roasting marshmallows. Big thank you to Nicey Icey at the Marina for the ice-creams. It would not be a visit to the beach without one!

We enjoy a walk in the sunshine to learn more about the river and wildlife. We tested the water using litmus paper and created colour palettes using natural resources.  

Adventure Access met our year 6 pupils at Durham Riverside at the rowing club, kitted us up and put us out onto the river. It was great fun, playing games along the way like “fruit salad” which involved swapping seats with others in a different canoe. We even went for a little dip in the river to cool down!

Axe Throwing! Something very different. After channelling our inner Viking, we aimed at the target but it was tricky to make the MooseHawk Axe stick to the target, but some of us managed. Well done to Devon, Aron, Leo, Elyse, Jamie and Aron who managed to get their axe to stay in the target board!

We really enjoyed trying our hand at archery. It was harder than it looked to reach the target but with some perseverance we got there in the end!

Our year 6 children would give Bear Grylls and Ray Mears a run for their money with their ability to build suitable shelters and creating their own fires – with the added incentive of roasting marshmallows once they had succeeded. A great start to our day 🙂  

This week would have been our “sats week.” The children still carried out some assessments have performed brilliantly. Their attitude to learning and their effort can not be faulted and we wanted to show them how proud we all. Well done Year 6. Keep up the hard work and make the most of your final term at St.Cuthbert’s 🙂  

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As part of our PHSE this term we have been learning how to be responsible with money. To do this, we played monopoly and thought carefully about our financial decisions.

Year 6 have been looking at local produce as part of their DT this half term. With chocolate easter eggs lining the shelves we decided to explore eggs as our local produce of the week. We used the codes printed on the eggs to see where they came from in the UK and we were really enjoyed looking to at …

Year 6 enjoyed seeing their friends for the first time in a long time this morning 🙂  

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