Download our Section 48 Report here:
We are so proud of our Section 48 inspection from March 2022, grading us as a 1 overall.
We hope you enjoy reading it.
‘Help one another, this is what we do with our hearts…’
Children of St. Cuthbert’s 2016 (AND REVIEWED ANNUALLY BY THE CHILDREN)
Our children’s mission statement sums up St. Cuthbert’s perfectly; we always strive to help and love another.
We treat one another the way we would like to be treated and do everything we can to help our children, our families & friends, our Parish and the people in our community far and wide.
We are always busy helping others…
We hope the below gives you a snap shot into how much our school is integrated into the community and how our Catholic Ethos runs through everything we do…
We have very close links with father AJish Kumpukkal, our Parish priest.
WE ALSO WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR PARISH, have a look at their website:
tHIS YEAR KS2 ENJOYED THEIR RESIDENTIAL AT CASTLERIGG MANOR:
OUR CHURCH IS CELEBRATING 60 YEARS IN JUNE 2024!
we hope you can join the celebrations with us on June 14th at 18.30.
Bishop paul will be celebrating mass with us.
We can’t wait to join the parish community for this joyous celebration
SEE LETTER FOR MORE DETAILS:
Letter regarding Bishop Paul’s visit - June 14th 2024
Our School Values:
Every half term our School value changes.
For summer one our school value is ‘love’.
Our other values are; forgiveness, thankfulness, trust, compassion, honesty, respect and community.
BELOW:
WELL DONE TO THIS WEEKS THREE SCHOOL VALUE AWARD WINNERS.
THESE THREE SUPERSTARS HAVE SHOWN AN IMMESNSE AMOUNT OF LOVE AND KINDNESS TO THEIR FRIENDS AND SET FANTASTIC EXMAPLES WITHIN OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
Our next School Mass (In church) will be ON WED MAY 8TH @ 9.30 AM WHERE THE FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CHILDREN WILL BE CELEBRATING THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILLIATION.
Please join us if you can. We will be asking for donations for our local food bank.
Below is a link for the calendar of the whole year (2024-2025). This covers the different Liturgical themes.
It was very kindly shared by Salford Diocese:
The children love Father Ajish coming into school.
Usually he stays for playtime and enjoys a game of football with the boys and girls.
Father is always so generous when he visits us. This week, he brought us some delicious chocolates…
Thank you Father, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU NEXT WEEK.
APRIL 2024:
the children who will be celebrating their First Holy communion in a few weeks are almost fully prepared.
In this weeks session, we visited the church and the children asked lots of wonderful questions about the two special sacraments they will be receiving.
Massive thanks to Mrs Murray who volunteers her time to prepare our children, as well as children from neighbouring schools. OUR SCHOOL AND PARISH ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE HER SUPPORT.
above. April 2024: Father came into school and talked to KS2 about confirmation. He also stayed for a kick around at playtime…
We look forward to welcoming Father next week, when he is joining us in school to talk about being a Karelian Catholic.
The children have been busy preparing questions for Father.
BELOW: FATHER ENJOYING THE APRIL SUNSHINE AT PLAYTIME WITH SOME OF THE CHILDREN.
APRIL 2024:
We enjoyed celebrating the Feast of the Annunciation, Our Trusts Feast day:
The children have recently written prayers, thanking God for his beautiful planet.
"I ask you, in the name of God, to defend Mother Earth…"
(Pope Francis. Laudato Si)
EASTER 2024:
KEY STAGE TWO ENJOYED VISITING ST. MARY’S C of E church in Windermere to join their Easter Experience:
MRS WRIGHT SPENT THE DAY WITH US!!
MRS WRIGHT WORKS FOR THE LANCASTER DIOCESE AND WE LOVE IT WHEN SHE COMES TO ST. CUTHBERT’S.
SHE LED SESSIONS ON THE HOLY FAMILY, WHICH THE CHILDREN LOVED AND REALLY ENGAGED WITH.
SHE ALSO STAYED AFTER SCHOOL AND DELIVERED SOME TRAINING FOR STAFF ABOUT HOW SPECIAL IT IS TO WORK IN A CATHOLIC SCHOOL.
WE INVITED OUR FRIENDS FROM DEAN GIBSON TO JOIN US TOO:
feb 2024
Our families are always so generous and always support any fundraising we take part in.
As well as raising money for many charities, including; CAFOD, Genes for Jeans, MacMillan Cancer Support we also support charities closer to home:
march 2024:
We wore red for St. Josephs day
Below are some of the beautiful paintings the children drew and painted of St. Joseph:
Every year, We also celebrate our School’s feast day.
How beautiful is this portarit of St. Cuthbert!
The children also learnt all about his life and the love the fact that he was best friends with Herbert, which is the name of our neighbouring church…
February 2024:
Year 3,4,5 and 6 had a fantastic residential at Castlerigg Manor, near Keswick.
Castlerigg is owned by the Diocese of Lancaster and offers residentials at reduced rates for Catholic Schools.
The theme of our residential was ‘growth’, the children had the opportunity to explore how their own faith is growing and evolving.
It was a very special few days and the children made lots of memories:
‘GOD WAS PLEASED WITH WHAT HE SAW…’
THE EXPLORERS ARE LOVING LEARNING ALL ABOUT CREATION:
December 2024:
Merry Christmas from the explorers, who did so well in their Christmas nativity in the church:
Christmas 2024:
The Mini police love visiting members of our local community and spreading Christmas cheer:
Key Stage Two have a lovely relationship with Kendal Care Home and have been sending letters to one another and sharing their news. At Christmas we visited the residents and also sent them some Christmas wishes.
The residents also manged to come through and watch our Christmas Nativities and plays:
Community cheer:
Key stage two wrote Christmas blessing for the residents at Kendal Care home:
the best way to spread Christmas cheer, is singing loud for all to hear…
Thank you for joinING us at Lakeland limited ltd for our annual carol singing event, raising money for our amazing PFA:
EVERY YEAR WE ARE SO PROUD OF OUR CHILDREN FOR THE IMMENSE RESEPCT THEY SHOW WHEN WE VISIT THE CENOTAPH IN WINDERMERE:
Below:
Our Harvest festival mass in October was also a lovely event. Thank you for your donations to Windermere Food bank.
We do lots of fundraising at St. Cuthbert’s. Already this year we have raised over £100 for Macmillan through our coffee morning, we celebrated ‘hello yellow’ day and raised over £50 for Young minds and we have also had a non uniform day for CAFOD.
This year, as a school we are working towards the ‘live simply’ CAFOD award. This is where we raise awareness and encourage the children to live sustainably and also encourage our school community to reflect on the teachings of Jesus, Catholic social teaching and Laudato Si. Our Laudato Si group are leading this award, they meet weekly and have planned many ways for st cuthberts to be more environmentally friendly.
In September, Father welcomed us to our ‘new school year’ mass. Our children enjoyed reading and leading the hymns.
We also celebrated Mary’s birthday with Father and the Parish.
Our children always read with confidence and pride. It is always a privilege to take the whole school to mass every half term.
On the last day of term, we celebrated a beautiful Leavers mass with members of our Parish and School community.
Thanks to Father Ajish for leading the celebrations.
We will miss our Year 6’s and wish them the best of luck as they move on to their new schools in September.
Keep in touch Year 6 and shine bright…
We enjoyed sharing lunch with Bishop Paul at the end of year Mater Christi mass at St Bernard’s, Barrow.
Mrs Bone and Miss Brownsord took the whole of KS2 to join the celebrations.
Many thanks to St. Bernard’s for their hospitality and thanks to Bishop Paul for a lovely service.
BELOW:
Thank you to Father Hugh, who visited us from Kendal to celebrate Ascension Mass:
BELOW: HAPPY ST JOSEPHS DAY
October 2022:
September 2022:
Our children will remember their #pilgrimage to the relics of St. Bernadette at #Lancaster Cathedral for a very long time. ⛪️
The children treasured their time with the relics and took great pride in presenting their candle and offerings along with their personal prayers for St. Bernadette.
What a fantastic, memorable & a once in a life time opportunity. 🙏🏽
Thank you to Father Michael, Father John and the #ksc Knights of St Columba Council 60 for looking after us.
#teamcuthberts #windermere
How many of Luke’s parables can you spot in our El Salvador inspired cross?
‘Help one another, this is what we do with all our hearts’ 💗
Thank you for helping us raise £175.66 for St. John’s hospice.
As well as the reindeer dash, we also collected some money Carol singing in Windermere.
Annabelle came into school today & she spoke to the children about the amazing impact their money will have on local patients and their families. The children showed lots of interest and empathy and are keen to help raise more money!
Well done everyone and thank you. 🙏🏽
Annabelle told us about the Kendal colour dash. The link is below, if you want to get involved:
https://www.sjhospice.org.uk/event/kendal-colour-dash-2022/
#teamcuthberts
Feb 2022
God is speaking…
…we are listening:
In RE recently, we have been using scripture and Biblical Imagery to hear the word of God.
Last week Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 looked at the parable of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10. 25-37).
The children wrote prayers about helping their neighbours and showing compassion just like the Good Samaritan did.
Well done Detectives and Trailblazers.
You’ve written some really thoughtful prayers and responses.
#teamcuthberts
When Pope Francis was poorly in the summer, our thoughtful children wanted to send him good wishes. They were so happy when he replied!!! (see below)
“The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all” 🌏
(Pope Francis, Laudato Si 1:23)
Every Wednesday our wonderful Key stage Two children plan and lead a class worship.
It’s always a pleasure to be part of & observe our young leaders proudly deliver our class worships with such confidence and grace.
The children this week planned a worship all about climate change, COP 26 & how we need to nurture & look after Gods planet. 🌏
Well done children- what a great start to 2022.
#teamcuthberts
It was a lovely surprise welcoming Sister Maria to join us for our Christmas lunch this year.
Sister is settled well into her new Parish, in Preston, but we do miss her at school. The children and staff loved catching up with her .
Our Macmillan coffee morning raised almost £200!
Thank you for supporting such a worth while cause.
‘Help one another, this is what we do with our hearts’
We were honoured to welcome Bishop Paul to our church and Parish.
Congratulations to a group of past pupils who received the sacrament of Confirmation. We are very proud of you all.
May 2021
‘Oh Mary, we crown thee with blossom today…’
The children showed immense respect and pride today for our annual Mary procession.
Our special robe is very precious - a Parishioner hand made this for us years ago. We will forever treasure it.
June 2021 - Congratulations to our 9 children who celebrated their First Holy Communion. It was a very special occasion and although restrictions were in place, we still had a wonderful day. Well done children and thank you to Father Darren for a wonderful service.
