St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Seaham

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 …

21st March marked the international elimination of racial discrimination day. This week in your classes you will be exploring these rights in more detail. Remember your classroom is a safe space to ask questions and your adults, as duty bearers, will help you answer. A reminder of what Articles 2, 12 and 30 mean:   Time to think:   Rights …

Reception Class had lots of fun this week working with coach John and Mr Harding. They took part in a multi skills mayhem challenge where they had to move around the different stations and demonstrate skills in running, jumping and catching. We were all very impressed with the skills we saw.

As part of our PHSE this term we have been learning how to be responsible with money. To do this, we played monopoly and thought carefully about our financial decisions.

Since there is no Easter disco this year to show off our egg decorating creations, we used the left over eggs from our DT to make our own. Egg-cellent decorating year 6. First we designed our egg: Then we decorated:

Year 6 have been looking at local produce as part of their DT this half term. With chocolate easter eggs lining the shelves we decided to explore eggs as our local produce of the week. We used the codes printed on the eggs to see where they came from in the UK and we were really enjoyed looking to at …

Year 6 enjoyed seeing their friends for the first time in a long time this morning 🙂