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Family First

Great news…The UK’s best family magazine is now free to all parents & guardians- Enjoy! Please click on the link below: Family First – Winter 2021/22 by Seven Star Media – Issuu  

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Year 2 – Instructions

To start off our instruction writing unit, we have spent some time today reading and following a set of instructions to make a paper plate fish. We had a lovely, fun English lesson.  

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Year 2- Equal Groups

We have began our new Maths topic of multiplication and division. We began with a practical lesson of recapping equal groups. We had a lovely time using lots of manipulatives to practise.  

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Local 24 Hour Danceathon

We would like to wish all of our children and, of course, Miss Scarr, who are taking part in Starz Drama School danceathon, the very best of luck as they take on 24 hours of non stop dancing to raise some funds. The money raised will be used to fund a bigger venue to offer more children in the community …

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Boccia Competition

Today, some of our Y5 and Y6 pupils went to a Boccia competition. Both teams did extremely well and had a fabulous time. Well done on representing the school brilliantly.

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School Dinner Menu

Have a look at the selection of delicious hot food available every day in school. The menus run on a three weekly rota and have a huge selection for even the fussiest eaters. If you want to change your child’s meal pattern, please contact the school office.

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Meeting the Mayor

On Wednesday we had a visit from Seaham’s Deputy Mayor Sue Morrison. The children asked lots of questions (from what inspired you to become a Mayor? to what is your favourite football club?). The children all now have a better understanding of the Mayor’s role in Seaham.

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Year 1 Materials

The children in Year 1 worked in groups to play ‘Material Snap’. They looked around the room for something that is made from the material card they picked. The children then created their own song all about materials to the tune Fere Jacques.

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Week 3 Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

This week the children have made their own Owls using paper plates and using their cutting skills. Once they had made their big owl, they were set the challenge to make a baby owl. Well done everyone!

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Science Rocks and Fossils

Today we started our new science topic Rocks and Fossils. Our first lesson was ‘The Hard Rock Challenge’. We had to study a rock sample then describe how it felt, what it looked like, its colour and so on. We then had to work out the name of the rock by our observations. We had a lot of fun using …

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History Stone Age to Iron Age

This term our topic is Stone Age to Iron Age. This week we have been researching the job of archaeologists and how they help us to understand the past. We found out that we can only find out about the Stone Age by what has been dug up as there are no written records for that time. Next week we …

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Y2 Sculptures

As part of our Art topic, we have been looking at sculptures by Henry Moore. Henry Moore made sculptures of humans. We had a lovely afternoon making sculptures with our bodies and then positioning our pipe cleaner human into the same pose. We then used our pipe cleaner human to make lots of different sculptures and sketched these into our …

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Little Library

We had a lovely time in this week’s little library club. Mrs Wilkinson read us the story of ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.’ We really enjoyed it and we couldn’t believe that the wolf wasn’t in fact big and bad but simply had a sneezy cold! Mrs Donnelly then  helped us with our stick puppets and we …

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Y2 ICT – Algorithms

Today, we created an algorithm (a precise set of instructions or rules to achieve an outcome or solve a problem) to instruct a pretend robot (Mrs Kharko) to make a jam sandwich. Some of us had some very funny looking jam sandwiches. We then discussed what happens if the instructions aren’t precise enough.  

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Year 1 Maths Challenges

Year 1 completed lots of subtraction challenges today, using number lines, part-whole models and tens frames. They really enjoyed working together to complete the challenges.

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Year 5 Maths

Year 5 have enjoyed problem solving using multiplicative reasoning. It sounds really complicated but it means using our understanding of multiplication to solve real life problems.  

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January Newsletter

Click the link to read our January Newsletter. January Newsletter Chadwick Celebration Awards online nomination form

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Week 2 – The Hungry Caterpillar

This week our work was based on The Hungry Caterpillar. We enjoyed watching a video to remind us of the story. We then made our own hungry caterpillars by making a green paper chain with a red head.

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COVID information January 2022

Government guidelines on isolation change on Monday 17th January. Please see the most up to day guidelines below.   If you have any questions about a specific case out of school hours, please contact Mrs Noble or Mrs Parlett:  n.noble@stcuthbertsprimary.com e.parlett@stcuthbertsprimary.com Latest COVID updates from government Information for Parents and Carers from Department for Education

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Year 1 Peg Dolls

During Art, we made peg dolls to add to our forest setting. We explored fabrics such as satin, cotton, hessian and fur and then we chose the most appropriate fabric for our Little Red Riding Hood peg doll.

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