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Year 4 Class Liturgical Prayer

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First Holy Communions 2023

     

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Y5/6 Cricket Competitions

We have had two very busy days this week, the girls and the mixed cricket teams have been playing at competitions held at Blackhall and Castle Eden cricket clubs. The girls team came 3rd out of 12 teams and were awarded a bronze medal. The mixed team came 5th out of 15 teams and just missed out on the semi-finals. …

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Year 6 meet the chicks

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Raising Aspirations – Skills

Year 6 enjoyed their second lesson of our raising aspirations programme all about skills. They enjoyed using their skills to complete a series of challenges – tongue twisters, guess the voice and playdough models. Then they applied their own skills to designing a game for their friends to play. Next week … CV writing!

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Stars Of The Week

It has been another excellent week to celebrate the success and acheivemnets of our children. Well done to everyone who received a certificate or earned house group points this week.

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Year 3 History homework

Wow! What amazing projects from year 3. Year 3 were tasked to complete a project about Ancient Egypt for their homework and they didn’t disappoint. We had so many different pieces from models to powerpoints, from writing facts to bringing in costumes. We were amazed by the amount of work children put into their homework. We had a celebration of …

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Year 5 Heritage Walk

Year 5 enjoyed their heritage walk before half term, learning about some of the buildings we can still find from the past and how and why the Londonderry family developed the harbour and coal mines. Thank you to the family members who joined us and also to Bell’s Fish Shop who explained their heritage theme to us and even prepared …

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Y5 Pretzel Making

Y5 Pretzel Making Year 5 enjoyed their DT topic before half term where they learned about the Pretzel Story, how bread rises using yeast, about altering flavours and most importantly making our very own pretzels. A huge thank you to Jan in the kitchen for helping us with this! We are following this up with a careers webinar with a …

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Year 5 Debating Skills

This week in Year 5 we have been learning how to debate, even when we don’t fully agree with a viewpoint. So far, we have discussed whether teenagers should be sent to prison linking to our new class text ‘Holes’, we have debated whether Sundays should be kept as a day of rest linking to our Freedom & Responsibility topic …

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Y3/4 Football After School Club

We had a great time at Football Club tonight. We played some games to warm us up and practised some basic football skills such as dribbling and passing. We finished off with a game where everyone got stuck in and applied the skills we had been practising.

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Vacancy – School Crossing Patrol

Vacancy – School Crossing Patrol Durham County Council Road Safety Team are keen to appoint a School Crossing Patrol to a vacancy to work on the Traffic Island, Stockton Road, Seaham. The hours of duty to be worked each week [term-time only] are:-8.05 – 8.50 am2.55 – 3.40 pm Monday to Friday[1hr 30 mins daily  / 7 hrs 30 min weekly]. …

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Dance Club Year 3 & 4

Our Year 3 and 4 Dance Club have been working so hard on their performance of From Now On from the Greatest Showman. They enjoyed dressing up in circus theme and performing at the Festival. This was also the first year we were able to invite parents back into school to watch. It was lovely to have you there supporting …

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Raising Aspirations – Qualities

Year 6 enjoyed their first Raising Aspirations lesson which focused on qualities. After a quiz to explore different qualities, the children took part in a series of challenges to see what qualities they possessed.   At the end of the activities, the children designed their own quality sweet. On this they wrote down 3 qualities they feel like they have …

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Year 2/Year 6 Outdoor Adventure Day

Year 2 had a fabulous fun filled day on Wednesday at an outdoor adventures day organised by our amazing sports partnership. The children all took part in a carousel of fun and sporting activities throughout the day and there were lots of happy faces and good sportsmanship seen.  As well as our Year 2 children, we also took six of …

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Change of Email

Change of email Staff and the office have new email addresses now that we have moved our computing system across to the Bishop Chadwick system. The new office email can be found on our contact page: office@stcuthbertsprimary.com and teacher email addresses can be found on class pages.

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Gold Standard Work

Great job from our Y6 pupils who achieved Gold Standard presentation this week. We’re so proud of you all for setting a great example to our younger pupils!  

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Grinton Lodge – Day 4

Today started with an orienteering activity around Grinton Lodge. We had to follow maps to help us find the locations of the stampers and fill our cards with different patterns. We worked in teams and were timed to see how quickly we could finish. The winners received a prize. This afternoon, we visited The Forbidden Corner and had a fantastic …

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Grinton Lodge Day 3

An amazingly sunny day at Grinton today.  We set off early for a challenging walk and scramble up Fremington Edge where we were rewarded with a beautiful view of Swaledale.  We are so incredibly proud of the whole group today. It was warm, very, VERY steep and our third hike of the week but every single one of the children …

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Grinton Lodge – Day 2

We have had another lovely, sunny day today. After a delicious breakfast, we headed out onto Grinton Moor. We learnt the names for some of the birds that live on the moors and found evidence of bell pits that were used in lead mining. We climbed up the hill and had a great view of the valley below. We ate …

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