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Congratulations to the girls who represented our school at the tier 1 netball competition this morning at Shotton Hall. They won 2 games and drew one taking them through to the final which they won 5-2! Excellent netball and sportsmanship! We are very proud of you all.

Year 2 have had a lovely morning carving their pumpkins ready for their spooky writing tomorrow.  

Year 2 had a lovely day at Durham Cathedral and enjoyed finding out why it is a special place in our local area.  

Year 1 have enjoyed making fruit salad this afternoon.

Well done Year 3 for your fantastic Nocturnal Animal projects. They were brilliant and we had a lovely morning sharing learning learning logs and projects. Keep up the good work.

Year 5 making a start on their sketchbook work researching William Morris. Taking pride in presentation is our mantra this term and year 5 are enjoying making design and layout choices in their work.

More exploring of fruit in art in Year 1. We’re using what we know about colour mixing to make fruit prints for our woven baskets based on Handa’s Surprise.

This week Terri Gee from Asda came to visit Reception Class. He brought with him lots of different types of fruit  for the children to try.We spoke about how important it is to try and eat 5 types of fruit a day. We had lots of fun.

The children who take part in Garden Club have been working so hard to get the allotment ready for the Winter. Our latest challenge was to move the bark chippings across the field to the allotment.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Last week Year 2 enjoyed ‘maths is fun’. We have been recapping what we know about 2d shapes and enjoyed a carousel of shape activities.

St. Cuthbert’s now have an AED device in school. We were able to purchase the defibrillator using the very generous donations from the local community during our Asda bag pack last term. We would like to thank everyone for their kind donations as this is a valuable resource for our school.

Well done Harriet! On Monday, Harriet had an amazing 15 inches of her hair cut off to donate to The Princess Trust. What a kind and thoughtful thing to do. We are very proud of you Harriet. Doesn’t her new hairstyle look amazing?

Year 6 enjoyed a visit to Sunderland National Glass Centre to explore the history of glass making and to watch a live demonstration. The children were even able to make their own glass tile, which is currently in a giant kiln, ready to be collected later this week. They have been exploring glassware and perspectives in Art and this was …

Beautiful Y5 work based on The Lost Words. Black out poetry where we chose words from the introduction to make a poem, then acrostics with metaphors. And of course… we are working on beautiful presentation because Mrs Parlett is a presentation pest!

Year 1 practised using dots, dashes and lines today then we used our skills to draw the still life we had made out of some fruit on our tables.

This term we will be learning how to use different techniques  and media when drawing. To start our topic, we began talking about primary colours and how together, these make the secondary colours. Once we mixed primary colours to make secondary colours, we mixed the colours again to make tertiary colours. We made some very colourful colour wheels.  

On Friday we had our first violin lesson. We had a lot of fun and can already point to parts of the violin and make play the g chord. I’m sure we will have some budding violinists.