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Attendance prize winner at the match!

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Mr S. Moore • 0 Comments

Thanks to our friends at Byker Community Trust, school was able to offer a very special prize for our lucky attendance prize winner at the end of last half-term: tickets to St. James’ Park. What is more, they got to see Newcastle United’s triumphant 4-0 win over Crystal Palace. This fantastic experience was truly deserved, as our lucky winner has yet to be absent once this year. Fantastic work!

Farewell to Father Shaun

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Mr S. Moore • 0 Comments

Today we bid a fond farewell to Father Shaun, who is leaving our parish. Our First Holy Communion children from Years 5 and 6 planned a special Celebration of the Word to thank Father Shaun for his time with us and to wish him well in his journey forward. We took as our text Romans… Continue Reading

Year 6 at Borrowdale

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Mr S. Moore • 0 Comments

Last week, Year 6 had a wonderful residential three-day trip to Borrowdale in the Lake District. We spent our time pushing ourselves to achieve new things; our activities included rock climbing, orienteering, ghyll scrambling and canoeing on the beautiful Derwentwater. Throughout our time at the residential we worked hard to build our resilience and work… Continue Reading

World Faith week; Islam

Posted on June 12, 2023 by Mrs A. Hagon • 0 Comments

This week all classes have been studying the Islamic faith. It has been a wonderful week full of colour and excitement! Each class looked at a different area of the Muslim faith; Early Years – Prayer mats ,Year 1 – Muhammad ,Year 2 – Prayer at home , Year 3 – The Mosque , Year… Continue Reading

Knots at Forest School

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Mrs G. Villalobos • 0 Comments

Today at Forest School, Year 5 Nurture Group learnt how to tie reef knots. They then use these knots to make woodland mobiles using interesting items they found in the woods such as feathers and pine cones. The children showed great resilience trying and again and again to learn the reef knot. Later whilst exploring,… Continue Reading

Lenten Walk for CAFOD

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Mrs A. Hagon • 0 Comments

During Lent we have been walking every day as part of our Cafod appeal, we recorded our walks each day in our RE books. Each day we started our daily walk/run with a prayer. We thought about the journey that Jesus made to the cross on Good Friday. Today we celebrated our final walk by… Continue Reading

New Parent Library

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Miss C. Murray • 0 Comments

We know that all of our parents and carers have very busy lives and can often find it difficult to get to libraries or bookshops to buy books for themselves. We have therefore created a Parent Library in the reception area. There are a variety of books which have been kindly donated by parents and… Continue Reading

World Book Day!

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Miss C. Murray • 0 Comments

We have all had a brilliant day celebrating World Book Day in school. The children came dressed as their favourite book characters, or simply in clothes they feel comfortable reading in. Thank you to all of our parents who came along to our Stay and Read sessions this morning, it was lovely to see children… Continue Reading

Open The Book at Christmas

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Mrs A. Hagon • 0 Comments

Our wonderful Open The Book team returned to school this week to act out the Christmas story. They dressed up and involved lots of boys and girls to retell the Nativity Story. It was an essential part of our Advent preparations for Christmas. Thank you and a very Merry Christmas to our Open The Book… Continue Reading

Mini-Vinnies Christmas Coffee Morning

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Mr S. Moore • 0 Comments

This morning saw the return of the Mini-Vinnies Christmas Coffee morning, Organised by our Mini-Vinnies, this was a fantastic chance for friends of St Lawrence’s Parish to spend some time with the children. Mrs Garforth led the KS2 Choir and Orchestra in a wonderful concert of Christmas songs, supported by Mr David Grant on the… Continue Reading