KS2:

Detectives and Trailblazers

2023-2024

Drawing bodies in art - 22/3/24

Brewery Dance - 18/3/24

Forest school - 6/3/24

The Marchesi Centre Dementia Cafe visit - 29/2/24

Year 5/6 Bike ability with cycle wise - 19/2/24

The Lakes School Tenner Project - 8/2/24

Castlerigg manor residential - 5/2/24 - 7/2/24

What a fantastic residential we had once again at Castlerigg Manor. We started off with Keswick adventures taking part in in target and battle archery. Once at Castlerigg, the children took part in lots of team building activities. Our last night consisted of a disco!

Our residential was filled with fun, laughter and reflection.

Science forces investigation - 22/1/24

Cumbria Cricket - 6/1/24

Christmas Party Fun - 18/12/23

School ukelele concert - 13/12/23

Mini police - 12/12/23

Bells Ring Out Christmas Performance - 8/12/23

DT Beaker Pots - 4/12/23

Pop Lacrosse with Jo Racle - 30/11/23

Kendal Mountain Festival - 17/11/23

Forest School with Wood Matters - 15/11/23

Remembrance Cenotaph Visit - 10/11/23

Dodgeball Competition - 6/11/23

Science joints investigation - 2/10/23

2022-2023

Translator pen

We have been making good use of our new translator pen in KS2. What an amazing piece of kit!!

Football Tournament

Well done to our team of Footballers this afternoon at the Lakes School. We came THIRD! ⚽️🥅

You played brilliantly in the Inter Schools tournament…

How great do the boys look in our new kits? Thanks again to Arnold Clark 🙏🏽

Music

The children worked incredibly hard to learn and play this piece by Ian Gray, a jazz musician 🎶

In the middle of the piece the children wrote their own piece of improvisation in their group.

Look at all of their concentration faces!

Trailblazer science

In Science this morning we have been looking at the heart. We have made a model using salt dough ❤️

Quicksticks hockey

What a great afternoon some children have had at The Lakes taking part in a Quicksticks hockey coaching festival 🏑

They took part in training exercises and team work games!

Forest school

What an amazing day KS2 have had in the forest with Ro from Woodmatters. 🌳

We have been very busy! We started with pond dipping and managed to find 3 newts 🦎 We then made little wooden hopping frogs using garlic leaves to dye the wood 🐸 We finished the day by working with a partner to create rope to make our own skipping ropes! 🪢

The stations of the cross

KS2 prayed 'The Stations of the Cross' yesterday in our beautiful church, when we reflected on Jesus’ journey to the Cross. ⛪️

It was such a powerful and emotive way to tell the story and the children were engaged and respectful throughout. They responded thoughtfully to questions and started to create some stunning pieces of artwork, which I can’t wait to share with you, once we’ve finished them.

brewery Dance platform, kendal

Well done KS2 for an amazing performance at the Brewery Dance, Kendal. We are so proud of your ‘revolting children’ dance🕺💃

A big thank you to Nicola Moorhead who choreographed our dance!

st joseph’s day

Today is St. Joseph’s Day. ❤️

On Friday we wore red to celebrate this wonderful Saint… enjoy a few group pictures 😀

Science week - 17/03/23

We had lots of fun in class during National Science week.

Here we are testing out our lung capacity as well as the reaction between paints, water and washing up liquid…

Planetarium visit

Thanks to Lancaster University for bringing their amazing planetarium into school today. ⭐️ 🌝 🌏

Freya was so knowledgeable; her passion about the subject was infectious. She talked to us about all the different planets, the stars and constellations…

She also discussed star signs & asked the children to spot their own star signs. I wonder if they’ll remember where to look on a clear night?? 💫

It was a truly magical experience.

Cross country at Elleray

Well done Team Cuthbert’s!!! 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

What a great afternoon KS2 have had at Elleray this afternoon.

The children showed great teamwork, determination & perseverance.
We are extremely proud of them all.

Their behaviour was also exemplary.

Well done children. 😀

Oracy practice

We have been reciting poems in KS2 in improve our oracy skills.

Great work!

World book day

A few more group shots from today… 📗📕📙

Westmorland County show & agricultural society visit

Massive thanks to Westmorland County Show & Agricultural Society for running such engaging, fun and informative workshops in school on Monday.

Children in KS2 had a fantastic morning, learning all about cows, their diet & how they digest their food. They also made creamy butter (which was absolutely delicious), learnt all about food allergies & even had a go at milking a cow!

What a great morning! 🐄 🐮 🥛 🌾 🧇

We definitely have some budding farmers at school…

Forest School adventures

KS2 had another fantastic Forest School session🌳

Linked to our Amazing Americas Geography topic, Ro planned some great things for us, including making teepees and our own bows and arrows 🏹

A big thank you once again to Ro @ Woodmatters for an amazing day ⭐️

Well done KS2👏

Number Day

Thank you for helping us raise £80 for our number day today. 🙏🏽 Your generous donations will help us upgrade and restock our maths resources as well buy some lovely new exciting equipment. 🔢

KS2 were especially challenged; they had to solve problems, order the answers from smallest to largest, and find the corresponding letters to create a sentence.
Amazing team work skills KS2!

mini police

The Mini Police were out in force today, with the children from St. Mary’s and St. Martin’s, completing a community litter pick at the Rek. 🗑️🚮🚯👮👮‍♀️

We were amazed by the amount of litter we found & so close to public bins too!

Well done Mini Police for helping to keep Windermere clean and tidy 🙏🏽

Thanks to PCSO Sarah Blacow for leading our Mini Police group & planning such valuable activities.

cumbria cricketMany thanks to Adam from Cumbria Cricket Ltd for a fantastic day of cricket.

Adam delivered workshops to every child, from Nursery to Year 6, focusing on key skills including throwing, fielding, catching & batting. 🏏

Well done everyone & we hope to welcome Adam back soon 🏏 ☀️

Spellbinding books

WE LOVE TO READ!!!!

Our spellbinding journey has begun.
We can’t wait to read our new books and share our reviews… 📚📙📘📚

Many thanks to our wonderful PFA for buying the books for us🙏🏽

Wheelchair basketball

We were very happy to welcome Nat Pattinson back to St. Cuthbert’s yesterday.

What an amazingly inspiring afternoon we had 🏀 🦽 All of our children, from Nursery - Year 6 had a go at playing wheelchair basketball with World champion wheelchair basketball player Nat Pattinson, who came to school armed with a set of wheelchairs…

Nat and Jack did an incredible job in raising the children’s awareness of disability in sport and all the children (& staff) had a fantastic time learning to play wheelchair basketball, whilst developing skills of perseverance and collaboration as they played. Nat is a sporting legend & has represented his country in world championships, has won countless medals and been able to travel the world with his sport. 🌍 ✈️

What an incredible afternoon and what an honour to welcome Nat back to St. Cuthbert’s, the best Primary School in Cumbria 🌟 🏆 🥇

Special thanks for our fantastic PFA who paid for Nat to visit.
Thank you for everything you do to enrich the curriculum for our children 🙏🏽

Christmas Performance - The Match Girl’s Christmas

This year our Christmas performance was The Match Girl’s Christmas. The children worked extremely hard learning songs, lines and solos to create an amazing performance.

You are all stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Christmas Extravaganza

We had a brilliant afternoon and evening rehearsing and performing in the Cumbria Music Hub’s Christmas Extravaganza.

The children had been learning and practicing the songs for weeks and it all paid off for the amazing performance that they contributed to. Well done KS2!

Forest School - December

KS2 had a great day in the woods. Thank you to Woodmatters. 🌳🌲
The fire kept us all toasty and warm 🔥

The children made some really cool Christmas decorations, using their many woodworking skills. How cool are their snowmen?! ⛄️

They also made and set 4 different natural dyes over the fire. ❤️

What a great day!

We can’t wait for next time.

Orienteering

Well done Team Cuthbert’s!! ⭐️

These 6 super stars had a great orienteering session with several other local schools at Elleray this morning. 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Thank you Elleray for organising a super morning.

Victorian Day

What a great Victorian day we had! The children dressed as Victorian children and were given new names for the day.

Lots of activities took place including handwriting with quills and ink, Victorian dancing, baking and learning and playing Victorian games.

mUSIC LINKS

KS2 had a fantastic morning yesterday with Andy from Music Links and local poet Jonathan Humble.

After enjoying a super interactive & fun workshop, our children recorded a song, all about the rules we live by.
The song will be premiered in the coming months… we can’t wait for you to hear it!

We are hoping to perform our song at Kendal Calling 2023!!

Music Links are an education charity delivering interactive workshops involving famous musicians and local artists.

They create & build confidence in young people.

Take a look at their website:

https://music-links.org.uk

WINNERS!

Champions 🏆🏆
Well done to our KS2 football team.
Played 6 games and won them all. 👏
18 goals scored and no goals conceded. Fantastic football!

Massive thanks to Windermere school for hosting & to Jim from the FA for coaching us.

Visit to the Relics of St. Bernadette

A small group of Year 6 children travelled to Lancaster to visit the relics of St. Bernadette. Father Michael spoke to us first and we shared all the information we had learnt about St. Bernadette with him. He was very impressed! We presented a St. Cuthbert’s candle and some special offerings to leave at the Cathedral, as well as prayers written by the children. This very special experience will stay with the children for a very long time.

Westmorland County Show

The children had an amazing day at the Westmorland County Show.

This is an annual adventure…

Welcome back Detectives and Trailblazers!

Miss Brownsord and Mrs Bone are very excited for this year. We also have Mrs Pearson supporting us in class. We look forward to working with our new Year 3 children and welcoming them into KS2.

Some of this half term topics include:

Maths - Place value, addition & subtraction English - Shackleton’s Journey: Recounts

RE - Detectives: The Christian Family. Trailblazers: Creation Science - Earth and Space

Topic - Marvellous Maps PE - Quicksticks hockey

KS2 ARCHIVES:

We are very busy in Key Stage Two.

Year 3 & 4 are called the Detectives.

Year 5 & 6 are called the Trailblazers.

As well as working separately in some subjects, we do lots of work as a Key Stage.

Have a look below at what we have been up to so far in:

In DT we have been learning about toys with moving parts. Today we built cam systems to test the movement of different types of cam.

This week we have been making chalk drawings of shells.

Kite making

Our finished kites are now ready to fly. Children designed and made their own diamond kites and the more complex delta kites.

Science week

Detectives and Trailblazers have done lots of exciting science this week. We’ve learnt about gases by weighing balloons, crushing bottles, moving feathers and blindfold smell tests. We’ve learnt about forces by making kites. We’ve learnt about solids and liquids by working with ice-cubes, ice-cream and melting chocolate and we had a fantastic time with Professor Pumperknickel on out visit to St Martin’s and Mary’s Primary School.

Ukraine Day

Trailblazers and Detectives spent the afternoon celebrating Ukraine. We made posters to show our support with the message of peace, love and hope in Ukrainian. мир, любов і сподіватися

Here are a few of the posters.

#istandwithukraine #teamcuthberts

“Help one another. That is what we do with all our hearts.”

Lectio Divina

God is speaking…
…we are listening:

In RE recently, we have been using scripture to hear the word of God.

Last week we looked at the parable of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10. 25-37)

The children have written prayers about helping their neighbours and showing compassion just like the Good Samaritan did.

Well done Trailblazers, you’ve written some really thoughtful prayers.

#teamcuthberts

God is speaking…
…we are listening:

In RE recently, we have been using Biblical imagery to hear the word of God.

Last week we looked at the parable of The Good Samaritan, through this painting by Francesco De Ponte Bassano.

The children discussed the messages they can see & the lessons we can learn from the Parable. For Example, being able to show compassion just like the Good Samaritan did.

Well done Detectives, beautiful work.

KS2 have been making mosaic insects in art.

What an amazingly inspiring afternoon we have had today. 🏀❤️

All of our children, from Nursery - Year 6 had a go at playing wheelchair basketball 🏀 🦽

World champion wheelchair basketball player Nat Pattinson came to school today, armed with a set of wheelchairs…

Nat did an incredible job in raising the children’s awareness of disability in sport and all the children (& staff!) had a fantastic time learning to play wheelchair basketball, whilst developing skills of perseverance and collaboration as they played.

Nat is a sporting legend & has represented his country in world championships, has won countless medals and been able to travel the world with his sport. 🌍

What an incredible afternoon and what an honour to welcome Nat to St. Cuthbert’s 🌟 🏆 🥇

#teamcuthberts