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Year 5 World Book Day We had a fantastic World Book Day and some amazing ideas for dressing up as a word! We enjoyed a very lively assembly with Adam Bushnell retelling the story of the Minotaur and spent some time creating our very own Spanish mini books – La Oruga Muy Hambrienta. Can you guess the story? Mrs Parlett’s …

Year 5 Class Worship Our focus in RE for the past few weeks has been ‘memorial sacrifice’.  We have explored what makes a memory important and how memories are kept alive in our families, in our British culture and in religions.  We remembered how Jesus asked his friends at the last supper to remember His sacrifice when they shared bread …

We had lots of fun on World Book Day we came dressed as a word and then a real life author came into class to work with us. Adam Bushnell came in and helped us to create a story about aliens and a space rocket so we could become authors just like him!  

What an amazing few days Year 4 had on our residential at the Youth Village with the Youth Ministry Team! The theme of the retreat was the adventures of St Paul. The children learned that you can always have a change of heart and we are all unique with our special gifts and talents. The children especially loved the escape …

Year 6 enjoyed visiting our school library and selecting a book or a genre they would not usually choose as well as looking at what new books the library has to offer.  

Well done to our Stars Of The Week. Awards were given out for being a helping, lovely writing, improved letter formation and being a great role model amongst other things. Our Readers Of The Week were also awarded a certificate and a pencil or a badge. Well done everyone.

Our Junior Road Safety Officers (Harriet & Robbie) had a tricky time choosing the winners of our competition as they were all brilliant. They decided to choose two winners from each class and did not look at who had sent in which entries to make it fair. Here are our winners: Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 …

In Year 1, we have been reading Super Worm by Julia Donaldson. We have been finding out lots of interesting facts about worms and made our very own fact files. We have also been finding out how to make a worm farm. We have followed a set of instructions on how to make our own worm farm and then we …

We have been measuring in maths and just before half term we were learning all about millilitres and litres.  Mrs Wilkinson set us a challenge to design our own mocktail. We could use as many of the juices as we liked but our mocktail had to have a volume of 300ml.  We enjoyed our challenge and then measured the juices …

In our collective worship we were discussing how wonderful God’s world is.We talked about the things that we find amazing and beautiful. Lots of us mentioned flowers. We then went over to our prayer garden to plant some Spring flowers around the statue of Mary.

Please see below for a list of Masses and Liturgical Prayer Dates during Lent. [gview file=”https://www.stcuthbertsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Masses-and-Liturgical-Prayer-during-Lent-1.pdf”]

On Thursday 2nd March we will be offering a theme lunch celebrating World Book Day. If your child currently has a packed lunch and would like to have a school lunch on 2nd March please contact the school office by Wednesday 1st March. See below for the menu choices.

Year 5 Summarising Skills Our next history focus in Year 5 is ‘Changes in Britain after 1750’, especially changes in Seaham. Our first lesson used our summarising skills, which we practise in English lessons. Each group was given an important change that happened during the Industrial Revolution and we had to create a mime that summarised the important pieces of …

Please see below for the complete spelling lists for Y5 this half term. Children will work on a different spelling pattern each week and complete a spelling test on a Friday. Children have all been given a paper copy of the spellings and a copy has been text out to parents.

https://cafod.enthuse.com/pf/st-cuthberts-primary-school We are taking part this Lent with the CAFOD Big Walk. We did this last year and were very successful, exceeding our target of 200km and £200. Every child in school will be walking everyday to contribute to helping us achieve this target. Please show your support and make a donation using the link below to sponsor them on …

Well done to our final Stars Of The Week for this half term. Awards were given out for being a good role model, improving presentation and thoughtful RE work amongst other things. Our Readers Of The Week were also awarded a certificate and a pencil or a badge. Well done everyone.

Gymnastics Stars A big well done to our 6 gymnastics teams, 2 individual competitors and 2 creative gymnasts who took part in this morning’s Key Steps competition and this afternoon’s gymnastics festival.  We are all so proud of your teamwork, your effort in learning routines and how well you supported one another. It has been lovely to hear feedback from …

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 …