St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Seaham

Year 6 enjoyed exploring the purpose being able to find the area and perimeter, working outdoors in their groups, using a range of measuring equipment.

We enjoyed a special assembly delivered by Mr Conway when he visited school on Thursday. He shared a great story about Mother Teresa. Phobe, from year 3, was chosen to dress up in robes given to Mr Conway’s relatives from Mother Teresa. During his story about Zacchaeus, Jake from year 6, volunteered to help act part of it out. It …

Today, some of our Year 5 and 6 children represented our school in the Swimming Gala hosted by Easington Sports Partnership at Peterlee Leisure Centre. We had a fantastic morning competing in races using different swimming strokes. We won some of the heats and came 5th overall. Well done to all of the children that attended, they showed excellent sporting …

Yesterday the children discovered what’s attracted to magnetcs and why. They created their own games using the magnets and metal objects in the classroom. We had lots of fun making our own magnetic fishing rods and magnetic mazes.

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Children’s Mental Health Week is going very well. Today, the children have been learning about how important it is to express themselves and what better way to do that then to wear what you want? Children came to school in a wonderful range of different outfits. We had princesses, cool casuals, super heroes, fancy dress, pyjamas, and some very questionable …

World Book Day is celebrated on Thursday 3rd March 2022. This year, it is the 25th Anniversary so school will be celebrating by offering children a range of activities to take part in. For more information, click the link to see how St. Cuthbert’s Catholic Academy are celebrating this year. World Book Day

When Key Stage 2 were visited by local author and artist Kylie Dixon in December, they were asked to take part in a competition to design and colour a character from one of Kylie’s books. All of the children did a fabulous job and the work put into the entries was amazing. Once finished, the pictures were sent to Kylie …

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of World Book Day, on 3rd March 2022, we are offering a special school dinner to mark the occasion. Take a look at the menu below to see the choices available. If your child does not normally have a school dinner and would like to enjoy this special meal, please contact the office to let …

As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, we are inviting the children express themselves by “Wearing what they want” to school on Wednesday 9th February. Please click the link for more information. Wear What You Want Day

Today in our last art club session, we listened to the story of The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. The children made their own fish using a paper plate and felt tips. They needed to use lots of bright colours to show the different coloured scales. The children have worked hard over the weeks and we have enjoyed working with …

Reception Class have enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year in class this week. They have made dragon masks and dancing dragons. In Maths they enjoyed playing games with the special red envelopes and weighing the different animals who took part in the race to see which one was the heaviest.  At the end of the week we completed our celebrations by …

Wow! Congratulations to our amazing gymnastics stars!  Gold medals for our Y1/2 A team and Y5/6 A team and silver medals for our Y3/4 A team. Our Y3/4 B Team just missed out on medals but came third. Well done to our brilliant Y5 second place champ who will now go through to County Finals!  A huge well done to …

We have spent our maths lesson this morning consolidating all we have learnt so far in our multiplication topic. We worked hard making groups of in lots of different activities. Well done Year 2. You showed this morning how amazing you are!  

Little Library Club was lots of fun yesterday. We read a story about slimy slime creatures and thought about some slimy things that we might see at home. The children thought of snails, slimy soap, slippery jelly and gooey baked beans. We then had a go at making our own slime creatures out of Play-Doh. Everyone had a great time …

As a treat, our wonderful kitchen staff cooked up a storm to celebrate Chinese New Year. The children enjoyed some traditional Chinese dishes and a delicious choice of desserts. There were lots of big smiles and clean plates!

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To start off our instruction writing unit, we have spent some time today reading and following a set of instructions to make a paper plate fish. We had a lovely, fun English lesson.  

We have began our new Maths topic of multiplication and division. We began with a practical lesson of recapping equal groups. We had a lovely time using lots of manipulatives to practise.  

This week is Chinese New Year. Since it is the year of the tiger we looked at the story of The Tiger Who came for tea by Judith Kerr. We made 2 tigers, one using art sticks and for the other we followed instruction to make an origami tiger. We hope you like them.