Date Time Event Wednesday 2nd September 8:30am School reopens for children Thursday 10th September 9:00am Y6 – Trip to Safetyworks Tuesday 15th September AM Whole School - School Photographs - Individual Wednesday 16th September AM Whole School - School Photographs - Class Thursday 17th September 8:50am Reception – Phonics/Reading Meeting - Parents/Carers Invited Tuesday 22nd September 8:50am Y1/Y2 – MacMillan Reading Café – Parents/Carers Invited Wednesday 23rd September 8:5

Dear Parents and Carers of St Cuthbert’s, We are writing to inform you that we have children on roll at St Cuthbert’s who have a severe...

Congratulations to our Year 6 pupils who have achieved the Faith in Action Award. Your kindness, compassion and commitment to living out your faith have been an inspiration to our school community. We are incredibly proud of you—well done!

Our fantastic Mr Bright was nominated for (and won!) the North East, Inspiring History Teaching award for his amazing work with Historic England, developing our local history curriculum and creating a great local heritage trail for our area. Check out the video above to hear all about it. Huge congratulation from all of us at St Cuthbert's!

Good luck to our amazing Year 6 leavers as you begin your next adventure! We are so proud of everything you have achieved and know you will continue to shine at secondary school. Remember, you will always be part of the St Cuthbert's family. Year 6 enjoyed their final music lesson with Mr Miller where they combined singing and playing the ukulele. Year 6 have been working so hard with their leavers' assembly. The rehearsal this morning was just brilliant ahead of them going t

It's been a fantastic week in Year 1, working together and enjoying our last few days before the Summer. Year 1 worked together to design a background slide with all of their favourite things in it! What a fantastic year. Well done, everyone and have a fantastic holiday! This week, Year 1 learned all about the rich history of the Punch and Judy puppet show! We learned that Victorian children enjoyed watching it just as much as we do. We planned and made some fantastic moving

The children have had a fantastic year in Reception Class. They loved seeing their buddies ever week and will miss them when they go to high school. We hope all of the Reception children and their families have a great Summer. We have loved using the scales to weigh the sea creatures to find out which is the heaviest and which is the lightest. In RE, we have been learning about the creation story. We made our own book retelling the story of how God created the world in sev

We had a fantastic time at our end of term ‘Nursery Fun Day’. We played party games, danced in the hall and had lots of fun and laughter. Have a lovely Summer Nursery! Nursery have been exploring everything under the sea. We decided to make our own sea life collage: we decorated some fabulous fish and stunning seahorses. We have also explored lots of sea themed tuff trays. Nursery were so surprised when we discovered our very own beach and ice cream van in the Role Play Room.

Year 4 have worked hard all week to create their own portable lamps, made from recycled materials!. We also got to celebrate a full cube jar afternoon in own clothes and played with our toys. Have a great summer Year 4! Year 4 worked hard to complete their final piece in Art this week. We looked at reflection, movement and shadows in our work. We also began creating the circuits to make our portable lamps in DT! Year 4's chopping and cutting skills are getting sharper with ea

Year 3 have been enjoying spending time with their friends during our last week in school. The children have had a fantastic year making lots of memories and have worked really hard. We hope you all have a lovely summer! Year 3 had a wonderful trip to the Great North Museum! Year 3 have had a great time this week cutting and sorting different types of rocks into their 3 different categories. We couldn't believe how many there were! Year 3 have worked really hard this week to

A selection of photos from out fantastic year in Year 2!!! Have a wonderful Summer! We created art based on the Piton Mountains in St. Lucia in the style of influential artist Yayoi Kusama. We used watercolours, oil pastels and acrylic paints, practising a range of brush and painting techniques Year 2 have done some art work about Kenton's history of coalmining inspired by local artist, Sarah Hill. Here are some pictures of Year 2 enjoying sports day! Year 2 having fun in pho

Y5 have enjoyed their last day before moving to the 'top of the shop' and Y6. After all the hard work and progress made, we've enjoyed a more leisurely day. Have a lovely summer, Y5! Y5 rounded off our week with a transition session in Y6 and our summer cube jar activity afternoon. It was a lovely day to play outside. Y5 thoroughly enjoyed our Ice pop Friday. We chose our favourite colour from staff. Whilst eating them, we sat and chatted in the sunshine. A perfect Friday! Y

Year 5 and 6 thoroughly enjoyed chess after school club this half term. They joined the club with a range of skill, knowledge and experience of the game and all left confident after practising their skills and challenging classmates and teachers.

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St Cuthbert's were delighted to receive a fantastic donation from Tesco in support of our school fair! A group of our pupils had the exciting opportunity to collect the items, and they were thrilled to see the generous contribution. We're incredibly grateful to Tesco for their kindness and support, which will help make our school fair a wonderful event for everyone!

This year, the Heritage Heroes have played a vital role in developing our multilingual local area heritage tours. They helped distribute these to community hubs, including the doctors’ surgery, library and foodbank, ensuring that local history is accessible to a wider audience. They also took part in our archaeological excavation trial during the summer, uncovering some fascinating artefacts on the school site. In addition, they proudly led our VE Day assembly and have been c

Our children had a fantastic sports day - complete with hydration breaks, time in the shade and enthusiastic spectators! 9 teams, 9 events, exceptional Year 6 leaders and some spectacular performances. Well done to everyone involved!

Parents, carers and professionals are invited to join RISE for our free webinar 'Helping your child with anxiety and worries', where we’ll explore what anxiety looks like, what keeps it going, and simple ways to help children face fears and build confidence. There’s no need to book, just scan the QR code or visit bit.ly/RISE-Anxiety to join us on Friday 3 July at 1pm