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Year 5 and 6 had a visit from the local neighbourhood policing team yesterday. They discussed issues around “stranger danger,” who to trust and what to do if they find themselves in that situation. They were also taught more about staying safe online following our E-safety day before half term. We look forward to working alongside them in the future.

Kirsty from the SENDIASS Team at Durham is coming into school for a parent drop in session where parents can find out more about Special Educational Needs in County Durham. Your child does not need to have a diagnosed need to attend – Kirsty can also give advice around seeking initial support for learning, mental wellbeing, communication and behaviour.  It’s …

To help celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week and to raise awareness, we are learning about the 5 Ways To Well-Being. Each day, we find out about a different way and try out some activities and techniques to help improve our well-being. Children were learning about the final way to well-being today; giving. We talked about the different ways we can …

Extra Curricular Clubs Please follow the link below to see clubs that are running after half term.  CLUBS PAGE

o help celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week and to raise awareness, we are learning about the 5 Ways To Well-Being. Each day, we find out about a different way and try out some activities and techniques to help improve our well-being. Today, the children have been taking notice of the world around them. We have been focusing our minds on …

To help celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week and to raise awareness, we are learning about the 5 Ways To Well-Being. Each day, we find out about a different way and try out some activities and techniques to help improve our well-being. Today’s focus was to keep learning. It was Safer Internet Day yesterday and the children enjoyed a whole school …

To help celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week and to raise awareness, we are learning about the 5 Ways To Well-Being. Each day, we find out about a different way and try out some activities and techniques to help improve our well-being. Tuesday – Be Active Today we were talking about the importance of being active for our physical health and …

To help celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week and to raise awareness, we are learning about the 5 Ways To Well-Being. Each day, we find out about a different way and try out some activities and techniques to help improve our well-being. Monday – Connect We discussed the importance of connecting with others and the difference between being alone and being …

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. We started our week with a Celebration of the Word with the theme of Busyness to Peace. Our reading was from Mark’s Gospel. “In the morning, long before dawn, He got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there.”                …

Our lovely kitchen staff are offering a Chinese treat to celebrate Chinese New Year on Tuesday 6th February. Please see the picture below for menu choices. If your child normally has school dinner, they will automatically be offered this meal choice. If your child has packed lunch but would like to take part in this celebration meal, please let the …

In Year 5, we have been creating dragon eyes in art. We used art pencils to draw the shapes of the scales and the eyeball and outlined them using fine-liners. We investigated colour wheels and looked at complementary and contrasting colours. We experimented with warm and cool colours and tried blending different shades together to get a graduated effect. We …

For our computing unit this half term, Y3 are looking at using  Scratch Coding Activities. We began our first lesson by thinking about algorithms and how it is important to make instructions clear and in the correct order. We practised giving instructions to each other and found out how to adapt and improve them when things went wrong. We explored …

Well done to our latest Stars of the Week. Children received certificates for lots of different reasons this week including; excellent phonics and computing work, being engaged and enthusiastic in lessons and being helpful and kind. Keep up the good work.

In Year 4, we have started our new art topic for this term. We are studying art in architecture. We have learnt about some famous architects and looked at some examples of their work. This week, we were practising some different lines and experimented with shape, thickness and curves. We used these skills to help us to create a continuous …

Spring Term 2024

We had a great last week at school. We played games and danced at our Christmas party, had a lovely Christmas dinner, met Santa, watched a show and watched a movie in our pyjamas, with a hot chocolate. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas Year 1.  

Children and staff would like to say a huge thank you to the Friends of St. Cuthbert’s group, who organised the wonderful Christmas show that the children visited this week. Everyone had a fantastic time laughing and singing songs; it really got us all in a festive mood.  

We enjoyed our last day with some hot chocolate and a Christmas film. Well done Year 3 you have worked so well this term we hope you have a very Happy Christmas and New Year.  

After learning about Sir Isaac Newton’s theory on colour and how we see colours, year 6 enjoyed exploring this further with some child-led investigations using coloured filters. They were amazed to see how the colour filters could be used to block out colours to reveal secret messages.

Year 6 have enjoyed their science topic about light this half term, exploring how we see and the phenomenons created by light. The year 6 children planned, delivered and concluded their own findings to this science investigation into the shadows cast by objects. Their initial question was, “what happens to the size of a shadow as the distance from the …