News

A visit from our Mayor

Our Mayor, Councillor Sue Morris came to our school today for a special visit. Councillor Morris talked to all of our children about the upcoming Queen’s Jubilee and presented all of our children with a special medal in honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It was lovely to see her.

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Year 6 Sports Leaders

A massive shout out to our Year 6 sports leaders that attended the Year 2 outdoor adventure day yesterday at Shotton Hall! They demonstrated excellent leadership skills and were excellent ambassadors of our school. All children led the activities that they  were responsible for with great confidence and they had so many positive comments from not only the sports partnership, …

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Year 2 Outdoor Adventure Day

Year 2 had a fabulous day yesterday at Shotton Hall. They all participated in lots of fun activities and had a lovely time. Their behaviour was fantastic.  

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Getting ready for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Jubilee Ready! We have been getting ourselves ready for our Jubilee celebrations after half term with some art to make our new entrance feel patriotic and party-ready! Thank you to all our classes for your beautiful portraits and drawings.

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Dance Club Showcase

On Thursday 19th May our Dance Club took part in the Sports Partnership Dance Showcase at Blackhall Community Centre where selected schools had been chosen to showcase their dances. Our Dance Club did such a wonderful performance again. We are so proud of what they have achieved, having the courage to get up on stage in front of over 250 …

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Tennis Festival

Y4 were given the opportunity to attend a tennis festival. Four children took part in a competition against other schools playing actual tennis matches. Ten children had a go at some skills to try to beat their own scores as they challenged themselves. The skills included throwing things at targets, passing a tennis ball around a circle using only the …

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Football News

Last week, our A and B football teams played their last league matches for this season. We came up against two very strong teams from St. Mary Magdalene Primary School and the heat made if even more difficult to play. Our B Team played first. As we were short of players, Jude stepped in at the last minute to help …

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Outdoor Learning Day

Last Thursday was Outdoor Classroom day and our children used our fantastic school grounds to enjoy some outdoor learning. Some of the activities that took place were scavenger hunts, potion making, orienteering, mini-beast hunts, active games and making symmetrical patterns. Luckily, the weather was kind to us and it was a great day for everyone involved.

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Prehistoric medicine

Year 6 had great fun today learning about prehistoric medicine and the role of medicine men in tribes. We foraged for our own ingredients to make remedies to treat our patients. The remedies are rather revolting but apparently effective… Tribe 1 – impaled by a wild boar’s tusk while out hunting Tribe 2 – a flint spear was removed from …

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Good luck cards from our Buddies

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.

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Life-sized circulatory systems

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.

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Diary Dates

A reminder of upcoming diary dates for the summer term.

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Girls Football Tournament

St. Cuthbert’s girls football team played in their first tournament tonight. They came top in their group stage after winning all of their games, scoring 11 goals and keeping a clean sheet. In the final, they were very unlucky and lost 1 – 0. It was a very close match and could have gone either way. They all received a …

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Year 2 Table Drumming

We had so much fun table drumming this week. We tried really hard to listen to the beat.

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Ascension Thursday

Thursday 26th May marks the Ascension of Our Lord. Fr. Marc invites you to attend services throughout the parish.

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May Newsletter

Please see the link for our May newsletter. There are lots of diary dates for the upcoming term. May 2022

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Y4 Combat Survival

Last week, Y4 took part in a combat survival adventure day provided by Team Challenge Adventures. They had to work in teams to solve problems and win soldiers for their armies to help rescue The General. The day was filled with lots of different activities including; speed and accuracy, team work, problem solving, and logic puzzles. Everyone joined in to …

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Year 1 PE

During our outdoor adventure lesson in PE, we went outside to use equipment and map key to create a Funny Face using information on our map.

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Year 1 Geography

Today Year 1 have been learning about what countries are in the United Kingdom. They made their own map of the UK with play-dough and labelled it with the countries in it. They also labelled the capital cities in each country.

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Walk against hunger this Lent

Thank you all for your generous donations this Lent, sponsoring your child to walk against hunger. We exceeded both the distance of 2000km and total of £200. This is going to make a real difference to the lives of others. The sponsorship we have raised will go to help the world’s most vulnerable women, men and children. It could help …

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