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The Friends of St. Cuthbert’s are organising an Autumn disco on Friday 7th November at Seaham Town Hall. Please see the flyer below for more details.

Local author, Adam Bushnell visited us today to help us plan a piece of writing about a local myth. First, we talked about some local myths that Adam has written about and then designed a hideous monster to be the villain of our myth. We had lots of fun labelling the different parts that made our creatures troublesome to the …

Congratulations to our latest Stars of the Week. Children were given awards for things like great presentation of work, fantastic writing and being a kind friend. We love to celebrate the wonderful things our children do. Well done to you all.

Year 3 enjoyed an inspiring narrative writing session with author Adam Bushnell. The children planned their own versions of a story inspired by the lost city of Atlantis, ready to share at home.  

Year 3 took part in an exciting and educational Stone Age Day led by Kate from Historic Workshops. Pupils explored how early humans lived by examining replica hunting tools, animal bones, and other artefacts. They learned about survival skills, food gathering, and prehistoric art before creating their own cave drawings inspired by real Stone Age examples.

Tonight, OPAL club was lead by Mrs Cook who showed us how to light a fire using a flint. She taught us the rules on how to be safe whist in the fire circle along with tips and tricks to get the perfect toasted marshmallow. I think you’ll agree by looking at their faces, they all enjoyed their marshmallows!

Yesterday, gymnastics club put their balancing skills to the test, practising different ways of travelling and balancing on the benches. They were super brave marching and jumping on the benches before balancing on one leg and on their bottoms. Well done gymnastics club!

Tonight, 8 Year 6 children headed over to Seaham High School with Miss Scarr to compete in their first ever dodgeball competition. Dodgeball is well loved within school but competing is a first for our school. The children have worked super hard , learning new rules and practising against their classmates to prepare them for the event. We are delighted …

This half term, Year 5 have been looking at staying safe online in our computing lessons. So far, we have thought about our online footprint and how we should behave when we are online. We answered some questions about websites and apps where we are online and created our own GIFs. We have also thought about online reputation and designed …

Well done to our latest Dance Club Star of the Week. This week, the award was given for excellent listening and trying hard with all of the dances.

Year 5 learned all about the Jewish festival of Passover and the symbolism of the Seder meal. We tried some charoset, karpas and matzo and learned how the different textures and tastes represent the bitterness, tears and the cement used by slaves to build the pyramids.

Friday 10th October is World Mental Health Day. To raise awareness of promoting positive mental health and well-being, we have been sharing ideas of how we look after our own mental health. We shared ideas of thing they do to help them to feel calm and relax. They made a list of suggestions to share with others. Some of the …

Tonight, although the sun was shining, OPAL club battled against the wind to great their own leaf family portrait. The children worked really well in teams, deciding what natural resources would make the best body parts. We had eyes made from berries, hair made from grass and some even experimented with the juice from the berries and mud as paint …

Yesterday in after school club, we recapped all of the things we had learnt with Mrs Wilkinson last year in Reception class. Mrs Wilkinson was blown away with how much the children could remember and their use of vocabulary. The children then decorated a bag and went to collect some Autumn Treasures. They used some of these treasures to create …

On Friday, Year 2 enjoyed a Peter Rabbit Picnic as part of our DT topic. We tried four different types of sandwiches made with different types of bread and thought about the appearance, smell, flavour and texture. We discussed what we liked and didn’t like about each bread and filling. Today, we made our own sandwiches. We developed our cutting, …

Year 3 learned about the rock cycle using Starburst sweets. We squashed the sweets together to show how granules and particles form sedimentary rocks in layers. Then we added pressure and heat to create metamorphic rocks. Finally, we created igneous rocks with larger crystals and air bubbles.    

Well done to all of our children who received certificates this week. Awards were given for great writing, fantastic maths and amazing contributions in lessons. As we celebrated the feast of the Guardian Angels this week, children were also awarded for being guardian angels to others. This was a wonderful way to help each other and be good friends.

Year 6 had a great visit to Sunderland National Glass Centre on Wednesday. They have been focusing on sketching glassware as part of their observational drawing unit in art this half term and it was a great opportunity to explore how veristile glass is as a material and the vast ways it can be used to create art. They visited …

This week, the children in gymnastics club worked really hard, focusing on their stretches at the beginning. The session followed on from last week where they recapped some of the rolls before moving onto forward rolls. Well done!

Tonight, OPAL club hunted for sticks, twigs, leaves and other natural objects to create their own bug hotels. They found spaces around the school grounds which they felt would be best suited to the wildlife we see in school. I think you’d agree, they did a great job!