Well done to our latest Stars of the Week. A special mention to the whole of Year 6 who received a class certificate for their hard work and excellent attitudes ahead of SATs next week.
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Gymnastics Showcase
Today, children from KS1 and KS2 performed their gymnastics routines to Miss Scarr and Becky from Easington Sports Partnership. Becky scored each child on the ability to perform, remember and deliver the routine to the best of their ability. The children had a wonderful morning showcasing their gymnastic talents and look forward to learning their new routines as they move …
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Our football teams have played twice this week. On Monday, we played against Seaham Trinity Primary School. The B Team played really well and demonstrated excellent communication, teamwork and sporting values. The score finished 3-0 to Seaham Trinity but the boys played a brilliant game. Player of the Match was Vinne for his hard work. The A Team played very …
Read More »Year 6 Sporting Event
Last Friday, three year 6 children were invited to a ‘Festival of Fun’ run by Easington School Sports Partnership. The children moved around a carousel of activities which included: soft archery, seated volleyball and new age kurling. A huge well done to the boys for representing our school and showing excellent sportsmanship and teamwork.
Read More »Year 3 Skipping School
On Monday, Year 3 had a wonderful skipping session with Gail from Skipping school. They built on existing skills from Year 2, learnt new skills and even doubled up with a partner. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and can’t wait to continue practising on the yard.
Read More »St. Cuthbert’s Stars
Well done to our latest stars of the week. Children received awards for hard work, showing respect, demonstrating talents and producing lovely work. There was also awards from our Times Table Rock Stars day yesterday. Children worked really hard to be victorious in the Battle Of The Bands times tables competition and some children in each class were recognised for …
Read More »Reception Class Bug Hotel
This morning, Reception class had a visit from Des and Alison from Greenscape. We made some bug hotels for our Reception garden so that our mini beast friends have somewhere nice to sleep. We used bamboo and pine cones and we all had a go with the hammer to pin the net on. Afterwards, we all planted our own sunflower …
Read More »Year 1 Outdoor Adventure Challenge
Year 1 had lots of fun on Friday morning with Kev and Heather. We listened to the Secret Garden story and had to complete lots of tasks to gain flowers. We made our very own team name and built our own team gardens. We all had a lovely morning working as a team.
Read More »Y3 Computing
Year 3 have been using Microbits to make some code and program their devices to follow instructions. Today, we made step counters. We used our knowledge of the microbits program to create code to make our microbits count our steps everytime we moved them. We had to debug the program when things didn’t work and try other ideas. We will …
Read More »Gardening Club
We’ve had a great start to gardening club with Peter and some of our seeds are already growing. We have enjoyed planting potatoes, French beans, leeks, basil, lettuce and spring onions. We even planted sunflowers to take home. This week we have also began filling our own compost bin.
Read More »Football News
Both of our football teams played against Westlea Primary School tonight. The A team match was a very close game. Karim saved a penalty but later in the half, Westlea scored and then defended very well. Our boys worked brilliantly in the second half and Evan managed to score twice to make the final score 2-1 to St. Cuthbert’s. Oliver …
Read More »Working with an author
We were lucky today when Adam Bushnell an author came to work with us. He showed us how we could plan an exciting Egyptian story. We started by creating an Egyptian monster who was made up of different animals. Adam used some of our ideas to show us how to draw our creatures. It was then our turn to draw …
Read More »Adventure Challenge Day
Today Kev and Heather came to visit us in school. Kev had received a worrying message from our Sergeant Major telling us that he had been captured and we needed to complete some challenges in order for him to be released. We had lots of different tasks. We had to work together as a team and rewards were given for …
Read More »Year 2 Food Technology
Super Sandwiches A big well done to Year 2 for their chopping, grating, spreading and sprinkling skills this afternoon. We made a DELIcious range of sandwiches from wraps to pitta pockets to hearty doorstops. We hope families enjoy their taste testing tonight!
Read More »Year 2 Barbara Hepworth Sculptures
We have enjoyed making a range of sculptures in Year 2 and learning about different artists. We thought about the work of Barbara Hepworth and how the spaces in her work encourage us to look through at the space behind and around. We made pieces out of salt dough using different tools for patterns and spaces and then glued them …
Read More »St. George’s Day School Lunch
Our lovely kitchen staff are preparing a St. George’s Day themed school lunch on Tuesday 23rd April. Please see the picture below to view the menu. If your child has a school lunch, they will automatically be offered this choice. If your child normally has a packed lunch but would like to enjoy this special menu, please contact the office …
Read More »Summer Term Dates
You can download a copy of our summer dates here. Please keep them handy – we have lots going on! [gview file=”https://www.stcuthbertsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Updated-Summer-Dates.pdf”]
Read More »Maths Rockstar Day
Maths Rockstar Day We will be holding a Maths Rockstars Day on Thursday 2nd May and inviting all our pupils and staff to dress as rockstars for the day while we have some maths fun. Please see the letter below for details and the video explaining our TTRockstars programme for pupils from Y2 to Y6. [gview file=”https://www.stcuthbertsprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TT-Rockstarz-Letter.pdf”]
Read More »Locomotion Year 1
We had such a fabulous day at the Locomotion museum. We learnt all about George Stephenson’s life and his inventions. We saw his Locomotion and acted out the first steam train journey from Shildon to Stockton. We also looked inside a train engine.
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