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 (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…

Our School Values:

For Autumn two our school value is ‘community’.

Our values are; forgiveness, thankfulness, trust, compassion, honesty, respect, love and community.

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:

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:

KS2 ENJOYED THEIR RESIDENTIAL AT CASTLERIGG MANOR:

below: we loved welcoming Bishop Paul to our school to celebrate the new school year.

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We welcomed Sheila Gewolb to St. Cuthbert's, who shared her Jewish faith with the children. ✡️🕎

Shelia spent time with us. We discussed our faith connections and learnt about Jewish feasts and what they represent.

Sheila brought many artefacts with her for the children to explore. She explained their purpose, what they symbolised and the basic tenets of her faith. The children played dreidel, had fun dressing up and tried hard to blow the shofar horn!
The children were very interested & had lots of questions for Shelia.

Thank you so much for visiting us. We’ve had a fantastic afternoon with you. 🙏🏽

#teamcuthberts

BELOW:

we really enjoy joining father and the parish for mass.

our children always read with confidence and pride and they always sing so beautifully too.

below: our Laudato Si group enjoy collecting food for Windermere foodbank on a regular basis.

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1.our macmillan cake sale - where we raised over £180 for macmillan cancer research

2. our wonderful donation of food donations to windermere foodbank- thank you for your support

3. ‘hello yellow day’ - raising awareness and funds for the charity ‘Young Minds’

4. We are very always proud of our readers in church- well done children.

BELOW:

WELL DONE TO some of our 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.

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.

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Massive thanks to Mrs Murray who volunteers her time to prepare our children, as well as children from neighbouring schools for their first holy communion.

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:

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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

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