St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Seaham

Year 6 have enjoyed having Mr Robinson from St.Bede’s in every fortnight to teach music. This half term we have been learning a song called “siyahamba” which once the children were able to get the hang of saying were able to sing in a round with harmonies and even use their knowledge to adapt the song to new lyrics.

Launching the Big Walk for Lent   Today we were visited by CAFOD who reminded us about all the important work they do and help us launch our “Big walk for Lent.” We looked at how helping during lent links with stewardship and participation – Gospel values we enjoy living out at St.Cuthbert’s! We took part in this before and …

Today, while our Mini Vinnies met, they were visited by Margaret and David, parishioners of our church and members of the adult SVP. Margaret and David are keen to work alongside our Mini Vinnies in their many endeavours this year and it was lovely getting to know more about the work of the adult SVP in our local parish. If …

Yesterday we launched the Mission Together “Lent through a lens” competition. We are asking all children over half term to take a photograph of something which they think represents Lent. On the back of the entry sheets there is some space for children to generate ideas to help them to decide what to photograph. All entries submitted will be judged …

Our JRSO’s launched a competition last week to support the topic of staying safe during the dark nights. They were blown away by the entries and are having a hard time choosing the winners. The winners will be announced during Friday’s assembly.

The school Council have been extremely busy this afternoon looking at all of the ideas they gathered from the parent questionnaires. We looked at all of the suggestions and ranked them in order of what they, as children, could have an impact on. From this the children are going to choose one issue to tackle.

This week in Year 2, we have began our thanksgiving topic in RE. We talked about what we give thanks for, how we give thanks and how this makes us feel and we made posters to share our thoughts. We also heard the story of The Last Supper from Luke’s Gospel. We role played the scripture we had heard and …

In our explore lesson in RE we have been talking about our experience of a special meal. We talked about a birthday party, Christmas and a Baptism celebration. We worked with our partner to share memories of a shared meal and discuss why it was special. We then had a Valentines class family snack together, where we served food and …

Well done to our latest Stars Of The Week who have been awarded for hard work, great behaviour and showing Gospel values.

In our science work this week we were looking at how penguin’s feathers work. We learnt that penguin’s feathers are waterproof because of the oil they produce.We had a penguin outline and used a wax crayon to produce a wax coating. We then dropped water onto the penguin. We found out that the water stayed on top of the coating …

Today we listened to the story of Stone Soup and thought about the importance of sharing. We thought about all the times we have shared with others. Following our discussion, we decided to make posters asking for donations to the local foodbank. We talked about how if every child brought in one item, we could collect a total of 206 …

This week in Year 2, we have have been learning about instructions. We followed a set of instructions to make a paper plate fish. We have been looking at the features of instructions and ordered a set of instructions for Mrs Dickinson to make us some yummy toast and jam. We are now busy writing a new recipe for George’s …

On Tuesday it was Safer Internet Day. We talked about what happens when we post online.  We learnt that information put online about someone can last a long time. We looked at different scenario cards and discussed whether the information was or was not safe to post online and why.  

Our focus has been: ” We love because we are loved.” Our year 6 pupils who are taking part in the Faith in Action award have been exploring what it means to love one another and what it means to be loved by someone. We explored videos about this from CAFOD then listened to scripture from John’s Gospel (John 15:12-17) …

Mini Vinnies enjoyed gathering together to create their posters for their upcoming coffee mornings now dates for Mass have been confirmed. The coffee mornings will take place after each school Mass with the first one being after Mass on Monday 27th February in the day chapel. All donations from the coffee morning will go towards developing our prayer garden. All …

Year 6 have enjoyed using the Let Us Pray resource to put together their own collective worships. This week’s group used scripture about encouragement and alongside their learning about books of the Bible in RE, they explore a wide range of scripture from both the Old and New Testament about encouragement. Adam and Shanelle took great pride in documenting it. …

Thursday 2nd March is World Book Day. In school, we are continuing to encourage the importance of vocabulary, so like last year, we are asking the children to come to school dressed as a word. For example, they could come dressed in bright clothing to represent the word ‘vibrant’ or they could come with painted spots to represent the word …

Please see our first newsletter from our newly established Friends group. Don’t forget to get in touch if you’d like to be of help! [gview file=”https://www.stcuthbertsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/newsletter-1.pdf”]

Step Up To The Plate Our brilliant Year 5 children learned all about global food poverty as part of some work about natural resources in geography. Using the CAFOD campaign for inspiration as well as Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti message, we thought about how imbalanced our food systems are where so much is wasted but 1 in 10 people go …

As we came to the end of our Special Books RE topic, we reflected on all we had heard and learnt,  As a whole class, we planned  a class liturgical prayer using the scripture from Mark’s Gospel; Jesus feeds 5000 which was one of the scriptures we had listened to and retold in our topic. In the story, Jesus showed …