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This week it was time to dig up the potatoes that we had planted in February. We then took our potatoes to Jan in the kitchen who is going to cook them for our dinner on Monday. We are really looking forward to Monday lunch time.

Reception Class have enjoyed supporting England this week. They made flags and came into school dressed in red, white and blue. Let us hope they bring good luck to England for Sunday !

Working with Chris and Matthew from Adventure Access at the Marina was amazing. They showed us how to kayak and paddle board before playing games with us in the sea and letting us swim. It was great fun trying these new sports and swimming was good, even if the sea was very cold! We are very lucky to have these …

We worked with the wonderful Hannah from Playology Beach School to explore rock pools and make shelters before sitting back, enjoying our beautiful scenery and roasting marshmallows. Big thank you to Nicey Icey at the Marina for the ice-creams. It would not be a visit to the beach without one!

We enjoy a walk in the sunshine to learn more about the river and wildlife. We tested the water using litmus paper and created colour palettes using natural resources.  

Adventure Access met our year 6 pupils at Durham Riverside at the rowing club, kitted us up and put us out onto the river. It was great fun, playing games along the way like “fruit salad” which involved swapping seats with others in a different canoe. We even went for a little dip in the river to cool down!

Axe Throwing! Something very different. After channelling our inner Viking, we aimed at the target but it was tricky to make the MooseHawk Axe stick to the target, but some of us managed. Well done to Devon, Aron, Leo, Elyse, Jamie and Aron who managed to get their axe to stay in the target board!

We really enjoyed trying our hand at archery. It was harder than it looked to reach the target but with some perseverance we got there in the end!

Our year 6 children would give Bear Grylls and Ray Mears a run for their money with their ability to build suitable shelters and creating their own fires – with the added incentive of roasting marshmallows once they had succeeded. A great start to our day 🙂  

Reception Class enjoyed learning how they could stay safe near water. The day started with a zoom assembly from the RNLI and then they took part in lots of different water activities. They made a water safety jigsaw to take home. They explored what they had to do if they needed to float in water and practised making that shape. …

Year 3 are learning  to use the bow during violin lessons. Mrs Sellers and I are so impressed with how hard the children are trying. It’s quite tricky, however I think we’ve definitely got some budding violinists. Well done Year 3!  

A huge well done to Year 3 for fantastic some Ancient Egyptian homework. I am so proud of the standard of work brought in.  Doesn’t our display look amazing? A big thank you to the grown ups for helping too. Well done.    

This week would have been our “sats week.” The children still carried out some assessments have performed brilliantly. Their attitude to learning and their effort can not be faulted and we wanted to show them how proud we all. Well done Year 6. Keep up the hard work and make the most of your final term at St.Cuthbert’s 🙂  

A few weeks ago we listened to the story of, ” Oliver and his Vegetables ” and, “Jack and the Beanstalk”. We decided to try and grow some of our own vegetables and our own bean stalks to see if they would grow as tall as Jack’s beanstalk. Over the last few weeks we have been watering the seeds and …

This week we read the book about Oliver’s Fruit Salad which was all about a little boy who thought he didn’t like fruit. Our challenge was to design our own fruit kebab. We could choose up to three fruits and the fruits had to be arranged in a repeated pattern. Once we created our design we had to follow the …

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Reception Class were really excited when the eggs arrived in school on Monday. They couldn’t wait to finally meet the chicks that hatched out over the week.  

Reception Class had lots of fun as they came to the end of their space topic. They were set a challenge of making a pet mouse to send up to space to keep their alien company.They were given a selection of plastic bottles so they could find out which bottle made the mouse go the highest up in the air …