St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Seaham

Last Thursday was Outdoor Classroom day and our children used our fantastic school grounds to enjoy some outdoor learning. Some of the activities that took place were scavenger hunts, potion making, orienteering, mini-beast hunts, active games and making symmetrical patterns. Luckily, the weather was kind to us and it was a great day for everyone involved.

Year 6 had great fun today learning about prehistoric medicine and the role of medicine men in tribes. We foraged for our own ingredients to make remedies to treat our patients. The remedies are rather revolting but apparently effective… Tribe 1 – impaled by a wild boar’s tusk while out hunting Tribe 2 – a flint spear was removed from …

Our year 6 children had a special visit from their buddies last week during their SATs and they gave them a good luck card and Mrs Groark gave a lovely speech about how she has watched Y6 grow over the years.

Year 6 have fun in Science today creating a life-sized circulatory system. Thank you to Jude, Jack E, Rosa and Jacob for being our human templates.

A reminder of upcoming diary dates for the summer term.

St. Cuthbert’s girls football team played in their first tournament tonight. They came top in their group stage after winning all of their games, scoring 11 goals and keeping a clean sheet. In the final, they were very unlucky and lost 1 – 0. It was a very close match and could have gone either way. They all received a …

We had so much fun table drumming this week. We tried really hard to listen to the beat.

Thursday 26th May marks the Ascension of Our Lord. Fr. Marc invites you to attend services throughout the parish.

Please see the link for our May newsletter. There are lots of diary dates for the upcoming term. May 2022

Last week, Y4 took part in a combat survival adventure day provided by Team Challenge Adventures. They had to work in teams to solve problems and win soldiers for their armies to help rescue The General. The day was filled with lots of different activities including; speed and accuracy, team work, problem solving, and logic puzzles. Everyone joined in to …

During our outdoor adventure lesson in PE, we went outside to use equipment and map key to create a Funny Face using information on our map.

Today Year 1 have been learning about what countries are in the United Kingdom. They made their own map of the UK with play-dough and labelled it with the countries in it. They also labelled the capital cities in each country.

What does the Eco Team do? The Eco Team meet regularly to think of ways to care for the environment and the world around us. Pupils in the Eco Team are passionate about ways in which they can make a difference. You can keep track with the decisions we make and discussions we have by looking at the links, which …

Junior Road Safety Officers During the academic year, our Junior Road Safety Officers (or JRSOs for short) will promote road safety, safe crossing and safe travel to and from school. This will be done through competitions, assemblies, undertaking research and communicating to parents through newsletters and the website.  In September we were shocked to find there was no lollypop person …

Thank you all for your generous donations this Lent, sponsoring your child to walk against hunger. We exceeded both the distance of 2000km and total of £200. This is going to make a real difference to the lives of others. The sponsorship we have raised will go to help the world’s most vulnerable women, men and children. It could help …

Tuesday was the last session of Library Club for our Y2 children. We read the story of The Gingerbread Man and the children enjoyed joining in with some of the parts and then re-telling it to their friends. They decorated their very own Gingerbread Man but their favourite part was eating them at the end of the story.

Click the link to see the Year 4,5 and 6 Dance Festival performance. Dance Festival Video

Last week, Dance Club took part in the Sports Partnerships Dance Festival. Our children had a chance to show other schools what they had been working on over the year. Our Dance Club was made up of children from years 4, 5 and 6 and they have all worked really hard especially as they were not always able to be …

Parent Appointments We will be holding face to face parent appointments after the Easter holiday on Thursday 28th April. If you would like to make an appointment, please select your child’s class below and complete the attached form. Please make a note of the time you select as this will not be sent out to you separately. Reception Class Year …

Grown ups were treated to a demonstration from the after school fencing club tonight. Children got to show off all of the skills and tactics they had learnt in the last 5 weeks and even compete with the electrical equipment used in proper competitions. It was fabulous to see how much all of the children had grown and developed since …