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Year 6 delivered a wonderful collective prayer to the whole school and their families on Friday, reminding us why November 11th is remembrance day, what we remember and why we remember, reading from John’s Gospel and observing a quiet meditation and 2 minute silence. “Go home and tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today.” …

Meet our 2022-2023 Mini Vinnies ‘Mini Vinnies’ are children in our school from Year 3 to Year 6 who are encouraged to embark on their first steps as possible ‘Vincentians for life’ by supporting our local community and those in need. As Mini Vinnies, the youngsters have their own ‘treasured’ Prayer, Pledge and Badge and meet together regularly to think of ways they …

Congratulations to our Stars Of The Week for this week. Children in KS1 and KS2 were awarded certificates for some amazing things this week. Keep up the good work! Children were also awarded certificates and a special pencil for being Reader Of The Week. It was lovely to hear about children enjoying and promoting reading to their friends. A big …

These ambassadors will help ensure: Children learn about rights Children can exercise their rights There is a culture of respect across the school There is pupil engagement and a shared sense of community and belonging Help children’s voices to be heard and valued Encourage others to take their right to an education seriously Take part in Global citizenship so children …

This week in science club we were learning about static electricity. We designed our own charactered then charged up the atoms in our balloons by rubbing them on our jumper. When we held the balloon next to our characters they floated or stuck to the balloon. Then to end our club we looked at the effects of static electricity when …

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Reception Class enjoyed their first after school story club. The story we were looking at this week was Elmer. We watched an Elmer story and were then set the task of making our own Elmer with a new coat. Everyone worked so well designing a new coat for Elmer.Lots of interesting Elmers went home.

Congratulations to our latest Stars Of The Week. A new award was introduced today, Reader Of The Week. We are encouraging children to read more often and read for pleasure both in school and at home.

Year 1 and Year 2 had a great time in science club learning about and investigating chromatography,  

Year 6 took part in an outreach workshop with Naomi from the D.L.I and 3 of her veteran volunteers. The children learnt about WW1, handled primary and secondary sources of evidence and explored the ways different groups of people were affected by the war in our local area with the help of some role play. Chronology task Analysing sources of …

We are very proud of our Year 5 and Year 6 children who represented our school at the tag rugby competition on Wednesday. The A team came 4th and the B team came 7th overall which is an amazing achievement.

  We were given an animal and a headband. We put our animal on our headband and were asked to group ourselves. Once we did this we thought about what sort of things the creatures in our group had in common and we thought about whether any other creatures could have also joined our group. We then got into 5 …

Yesterday, as part of out History topic, we visited Durham Cathedral. We learnt all about why the cathedral is a special place. We also learnt a little about the history of the cathedral. Did you know that it was once a prison? We visited the shrine of St. Cuthbert and then enjoyed the story of Cuthbert through drama. We really …

On Thursday, KS1 children enjoyed a jam packed afternoon of dancing with Sophie from the Easington School Sports Partnership. The children were given opportunities to take part in a wide range of dance styles along with using a variety of dance props. Glow sticks and disco lights added to the party atmosphere.

Some pumpkins were delivered to our class. We had lots of fun working in teams, designing a face for our pumpkin and then carving out the flesh and seeds. We tried to make the same face as our  pumpkin.

Reception had such a lovely afternoon when Sophie a dance teacher came to work with us. We used glow sticks, ribbons and pom poms to dance with. We also used  the parachute to help us to listen and follow instructions. Thank you Sophie we had a super dancing time.

On Wednesday, children and parents in year 6 were invited to meet staff and former St.Cuthbert’s pupils who are in year 7 at St.Bede’s. Due to the popular demand of their open evening, they wanted to give parents and pupils at St.Cuthbert’s the opportunity to ask questions and meet staff. Our former pupils shared what they have enjoyed about their …

As a school on Tuesday 18th,  we took part in the “million children pray the rosary” campaign for peace and unity in the world. Deacon Peter visited Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 and explained what the rosary was and why we pray it. Then together they recited the Hail Mary, Our Father and Glory Be together. At 11am Year …