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Year 2 Celebration of The Word

A BIG well done to Year 2 for a wonderful assembly and celebration of The Word. Today we led the school in a Remembrance assembly. The children were wonderful, reading their parts and singing beautifully from start to finish. Thank you to our parents for coming to watch and showing us your support. We are all very proud of Year …

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November Newsletter

Please click the link to view our November 2023 Newsletter. There are some important diary dates for upcoming events and activities and you can find out what has been going on in school over the last few weeks. November Newsletter 2023

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Reception: Remember, Remember the 5th of November

In Reception class today, we learnt all about the history behind Bonfire night. We enjoyed lots of firework activities to develop our fine motor skill. We also built some CVC words.

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Lego Club Week 1

This week in Lego Club we were Space Rangers and we are on a super secret mission to build a new spaceship.  

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St. Cuthbert’s Stars

Well done to the children who received awards this week. Keep up the good work.  

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Fiction Express Friday

Year 6 have enjoyed reading the first chapter of their chosen book on Fiction Express this half term – Son of the Samurai by Adam Bushnell. These 3 boys were very happy with the quick reply back from author, Adam Bushnell, after they had commented on the forum in reply to his question. We can’t wait to see what happens …

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Articles of the Week – A reflection of Black History Month

As we come to the end of October, we reflect on Black History Month. Black History Month takes place in October every year and is a celebration of key figures and events in Black history. Having begun in the USA, it has been celebrated in the UK since 1987, with the emphasis on celebrating particularly the history and contributions to …

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Darwin’s Finches Investigation

Year 6 have been learning about how the finches discovered on the Galapagos island by Charles Darwin informed his theory of evolution by natural selection. We used different sized objects which represented the size of the food accessible across the island as well as using spoons, tweezers, a peg and toothpicks to replicate the different beak types. It was clear …

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Y6 shelter building

As part of our Y6 Judaism topic at the end of last half term we learnt about the Jewish festival, Sukkot. This is the festival of shelters which is a reminder of when their people were freed from slavery and went into the desert for 40 years. They had to build shelters with only God to protect them. This tradition …

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Flu Immunisations

The immunisation team will be returning to your child’s school on 16 November 2023 to complete the immunisation programme. If you have not already completed a consent form and wish for your child to be vaccinated, please complete the link below: Flu Immunisations If since giving us consent your child has received the vaccine from the GP or hospital please contact us …

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New School Dinner Menu

You can click the link below to view the school dinner menu for this term. School Lunch Menu

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Autumn Disco

Our Friends of St Cuthbert’s Group have organised an Autumn Disco. Please see below for details.

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Clubs – Autumn Half Term 2

Please see our clubs page for a link to the clubs we are offering for the second half of Autumn Term. https://www.stcuthbertsprimary.com/clubs/

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World Mental Health Day

On 10th October, children at St. Cuthbert’s took part in lots of activities to raise awareness of mental health and discovered ways to promote their own and other’s positive mental health. Children dressed in something green to echo the colour of the World Mental Health Day took part in a whole school assembly that promoted being a “Bucket Filler” and …

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Reception Class – Motion for the Ocean

The children had a visit from Georgina Fuller to learn all about our oceans and how to protect them. Following on from this, they have created a lovely piece of class art work which is to displayed this weekend in the town hall at Seaham’s @motion4the ocean art exhibition. Visit Seaham Town council’s Facebook page for my details.

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Year 1 History Trip

We have had a great afternoon visiting Church Street and eating ice cream. We had a sketch map of Church Street and mapped out the things that we could see. We will then be comparing this to the 1950s high street.

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Autumn (Reception class)

Reception class have been learning all about autumn and the changes that happen. We have enjoyed the stories, ‘The Leaf Thief’ and ‘Leaf Man’ This week, we have explored the autumn treasures we brought from home, we have been on an autumn walk in our school environment and made autumn crowns and we have painted autumn trees. The children have …

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Football News

Tonight, the A Team played in the Harry Page Cup Final against Ryhope Juniors. This was possibly the most exciting football match we have ever see for a cup final. The boys were going into this final on the back of their unlucky loss on Tuesday against Ryhope. We didn’t let that bother us, we kept our heads up and …

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Glow stick dancing

Today was a fun day not only did we get the chance to dance with glow sticks we were able to sing along to our favourite songs. Thank you to Sophie for coming in and showing us some cool dance routines.

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Year 2 Dance Session

Today Year 2 enjoyed a “dance with me” session with Sophie from the Sports Partnership. We had fun learning new dance moves using the glow sticks and singing along.  

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