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We have had lots of fun this week leading up to Christmas. Keep checking back for more photos!

Your children may receive electronic devices for Christmas this year.  To help you understand how to set parental controls across all the main devices and websites your children use please click here.

This week Year 1 have been using our new chrome books and started looking at directions.  we used the bee-bot app on purple mash and tried out some of the fun games.

Some children in Year 6 have been carrying out a maths booster once a week. This week they had the opportunity to put their knowledge into practice by selling the chocolate and oranges which were kindly donated by Morrisons at Doxford Park, before going back to class to work out the total towards the cost of their transport to Robin …

As you all know, this week is anti bullying week.  The theme this year is ‘Power for Good’ which means that you have the power to do the right thing.  We have had an assembly so that you can understand what bullying is and you know what to do if it happens to you or if you see it happening. …

On Tuesday, Year 6 visited The Work Place at Newton Aycliffe and took part in a safety carousel. We took part in workshops with: the Police, RLNI, First Aiders, Fire Service, Northern Powergrid and Road Safety. With the Police, we learnt about the importance of internet safety, cyber crime and the reason certain games and social media has age restrictions. …

In year 2 we had a lovely day on Halloween and enjoyed carving pumpkins. We also listened to some spooky music while we wrote our spooky writing.

Wearing something red today was to help raise awareness about racism. We were showing racism the red card! In our school today we have all been learning about racial discrimination and stereotyping. We are learning how to challenge prejudices we may encounter and how to educate other to live peacefully in our multi-cultural society. We know, we all have rights! …

We have been on our first school visit. We went to Pizza Express at Dalton Park. We got the service bus and made a yummy pizza to take home for our tea.

Year 6 had buddy time today and because we love to read we were reading to our buddies. We read stories like; We read peace at last, little teddy left behind, Mr big. We loved reading our stories and playing with our friends and buddies. Reception: We love listening to our teachers read stories and we love play time when …

This weeks ‘Man of The Match’ are Taylor and Ryan.  Well done boys!

On Monday 3rd October Mrs Coates came into our class and told us about her experience from WW2 as well as stories she had from friends and family members. She brought in real artefacts from the era, letters, ration books, cards, a wedding photograph as well as shrapnel. She told us the story about how her mother worked in a …

We are absolutely delighted to have achieved the Silver School Games mark in recognition of the sporting opportunities we offer our young people.  We’re already working on our Gold standard ready to apply at the end of the year. Keep up to date with all of our sporting events on our PE & Sport pages.

By Ryan D First half: St. Joseph’s were a good team and did some great tackles. It took a while but some great passes resulted in a well worked team goal scored by Ryan. Ethan and Daniel made some good clears from in front of the goal. Goalie, Michael made some great saves and at the end of the half …

We celebrated Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday in year 2. We came dressed as our favourite characters from Roald Dahl stories. We enjoyed lots of fun activities during the day and we even designed and made our very own ‘Wonka Bars’.

Report by Ryan D. On the 16th September 2016 St.Cuthbert’s played a football match against Ropery Walk. This is how it went: A team The game started and straight away Taylor went past three of their defenders and put it right into the top corner – 1-0! It took a while but Jack took a corner and put it in …