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Our Year 2 children had a fantastic day at Washington Wetlands, learning all about animals and their habitats. They loved pond dipping and were excited to discover all sorts of creatures living in the water. During mini beast hunting, they carefully searched for insects and small animals, finding lots of interesting bugs along the way. We watched the otters being …

A huge congratulations to our first Stars Of The Week for the new term. Well done to everyone who has received house group points this week too.

The Mini Vinnies would like to say a huge thank you to our families for their kind donations and continued support towards our food appeal. Our Lenten appeal was a huge success with a huge range of crafts, chocolate eggs and food donations. Thank you!

This week, Ks1 had a wonderful time in story and craft club with Miss Scarr and Mrs Stubbs. The children first listened to the story of The Rainbow Fairy before creating their own rainbow dreamcatcher to take home.

The sun certainly shone for Ks2 tonight as they had their first cricket session with Mrs Cook. The children first looked at breaking down individual skills before finishing with mini cricket games. Also, a huge thank you to Helen and Finley for their coaching expertise and support tonight. We can’t wait for next week!

In our JRSO assembly, we learned about how to stay safe in and around school. They explained that it’s important to wear bright clothing during the day and reflective clothing at night so that you can be easily seen by vehicles. Each child was also given a reflective keychain to attach to their bag or coat to help keep them …

Over this half term at Lego and Games club the children have had fun making different types of buildings, cars and other objects with the lego. They have also enjoyed taking turns playing games such as hangman, bingo, snakes and ladders.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Parent Drop In event on Monday. It was very well attended and parents told us they found it very useful. We had lots of visitors from various services in our area and lots of information was handed out. As always, a special mention to the Friends of St. Cuthbert’s who …

Our SEND and WEll-Being Parent Drop in Session is on Monday 30th March from 2:30 until 4PM. We have visitors in school with information about services in our local area and the cognition team are delivering a sleep workshop. There will also be refreshments available and a free raffle. EVERYONE IS WELCOME

A huge well done to all of our the children who have received certificates today. We love to celebrate our children’s hard work and talents. Congratulations to our violin players from Years 4, 5 and 6 who have been awarded certificates from Durham Music Service.

Yesterday, Year 3 were using Micro:bits in our computing lesson. We found out how to set up the Micro:bits and then used Purple Mash to code them. We were able to make the Micro:bits show text, flash images and even play music. We had lots of fun and thoroughly enjopyed using our knowledge of coding to help us complete the …

The Family Hub are hosting an event in our local area. Everyone is welcome. See the picture below for more details.

Tonight was the final Dance club session before next weeks dance festival at the Glebe Centre. Each week, the children have shown great enthusiasm and commitment as they explored different dance moves and styles. They have thoroughly enjoyed learning a formation dance, practising positions, timing and coordination. The children have been a great support to one another, demonstrated excellent listening …

Did you know our local Best Start Family Hub has many programmes to support families?  You can find details of those running from April to August 2026 below. Families can register themselves for courses and groups or staff in school would be happy to support with this. Don’t forget that on Monday, you can call into school from 2:30 and …

Tonight, after a quick warm-up to Just Dance on the big screen, Ks1 had their first experience of playing Dodgeball. They worked so hard learning new rules, perfecting their throwing technique and aiming skills. By the end of the session, heart rates were up and faces were red! Well done everyone!

On Monday, 3 of our Ks1 children had a wonderful time with Miss Todd and Mrs Stubbs practising their bike riding skills. They started with bike safety; checking the brakes, the seat and ensuring their helmet fit correctly. After, they played some balancing games before riding around the track of cones. Well done!

Today, we had a visit from our local PCSOs to talk to us about anti-social behaviour. They explained what can be classed as anti-social behaviour and what might happen to people who do it. We also found out how anti-social behaviour can affect people in our community and what we should do if we see or experience it.

We have had a lovely time in computer club. We have been looking at coding and using the microbits to try out different elements of the code. We made the microbits do lots of different things such as; read out text, play music and display images we had designed. We were very proud of ourselves when we used our debugging …

On Friday 20th March, we celebrate the feast day of St. Cuthbert. Our Year 5 and Year 6 classes began the day by attending mass in church and singing to celebrate the saint our school is named after. In the afternoon, we all enjoyed a visit from the ice cream man.  

On Wednesday afternoon, we had a visit from Sean Gaffney (Powerlifter), who helped us complete our sponsored circuit of activities. It was a fun packed, active afternoon and everyone enjoyed the experience. Sponsor money can still be brought into the school office until Wednesday.