NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

To finish off our World Book Day celebrations, all children were invited to create posters which promote reading in school. After lots of excellent entries from across the school, one winner was chosen from each class. There was then an overall winner who's poster will be displayed in all classrooms and libraries. Each class winner won a brand new book and a special book tote bag to take it home in. Our overall winner also won a £20 book token!

World Book Day became ‘Wild Book Day’, when St Lawrence’s Catholic Primary gave the annual celebration of reading a novel twist. Pupils from Nursery to Year 6 at our school took part in the international event, with activities all themed around a particular story. “This year, the whole school was reading Wild Book Day by Karl Newson and James Brown,” explained our Head of School, Mrs Robson. In it, books come to life when children aren’t looking at them, and they get up to lo

We had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day with a very successful Stay and Play session. The children were thrilled to welcome their families into school and proudly showed them all the things they enjoy playing with each day. It was lovely to see everyone exploring the activities together, sharing stories, and joining in with the fun. The children really enjoyed having the chance to play alongside their grown‑ups and talk about their favourite toys and games. Thank y

This week brought some very exciting news to nursery — our caterpillars have arrived! The children were full of curiosity as they gathered round to take a closer look. They were fascinated by their tiny movements and enjoyed talking about what they could see. We can’t wait to watch them grow and change over the next few weeks. The children are already asking lots of questions, and we’re looking forward to learning more together about the life cycle of a caterpillar.

Year 5 won the whole school attendance prize again this month, so had another trip to the cinema to see the new movie GOAT! The competition is on for this month's highest attendees in school- we'll definitely be trying hard to win again, these monthly cinema trips are very fun!

Year 6 have completed their projects based on the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.   These wonderful pictures were produced in groups of 2 and three - really taking on board the ideas of the famous American artist. They aimed to embrace her love of flowers, colour, size and the ability to immediately draw the attention of an audience. Pupils sketched out the flowers before using vivid pastel colours to create some remarkable pieces.

This term in art year 1 have been learning what the primary colours are and how we can colour mix to make the secondary colours. The children used their knowledge to create painted plates inspired by Clarice Cliff. They were only given the primary colours and had to colour mix if they wanted a different colour on their plate.

To consolidate our history learning, we went on a trip to the  George Stephenson Railway Museum. Here the children could see real life trains from different time periods including a train that George Stephenson built himself! There was a real excitement and joy from the children on this trip.

Year 4 recently went over to the lighthouse project to complete a DT cooking project. We planned out our recipes and measured all of our own ingredients. We worked in our groups of 3 to make delicious cookies.

On Friday as part of our Art lesson. Year 4 created winter scenes using colours associated with winter. We linked our paintings into our new book, Narnia. We created pictures based on what we think Narnia looks like.

Last week, Y5 were at the Lighthouse project cooking Spaghetti Bolognese for our DT project, "Farm to Fork", we have investigated how food begins in farms and fields then ends up on our plates. The children chose and cut all of their ingredients, cooked it and ate it! We had so much fun and Mrs Chiru has even had pictures from home where children have shown their parents what we did and cooked a whole family meal!!

We invited Mr Moore into our classroom and asked him questions about the different books that are used at Mass. He talked to us about the hymn book, the Bible, the lectionar

In Year 2 we had a problem! Mrs Woodley had ripped her umbrella so we had to test different materials to find a suitable one to fix it. We decided that the material had to be light, flexible, strong and waterproof so we got to work to test each of the materials to see which one would be most suitable.

Year 3 enjoyed taking part in an immersive Ancient Egyptian day led by Durham University Oriental Museum. They handled original artefacts as mini archaeologists, using observation and enquiry skills to form theories. Later, they used x‑rays to investigate a mummy, discovering clues about life, beliefs and culture. They learnt about protective amulets and made their own from clay. The experience ended with a dramatic Weighing of the Heart ceremony, where a member of the class

This week in science we have been learning all about objects and materials. The children learnt about 6 different material types and what an object is. We found out that an object is made from a material. After sorting different objects into the material they are made from, the children went around the classroom on an object hunt. They were looking for an object that is made from a material we have looked at. This opened up interesting discussions and the children realised th

To begin our Science topic, we went on a materials hunt around school. We thought about the materials that we see inside and outside of the classroom and the properties of each material. We plan on doing some invesigations on the suitability of different materials as our topic goes on.

This week, we made wraps using lots of healthy ingredients. We practised different skills, including snipping, cutting, spreading and grating as part of our work in Design and Technology. This also linked in with our work in Science on choosing foods to keep us fit and healthy. Our wraps were delicious and we plan on making more at home!

What perfect timing! As we’ve been learning all about winter weather and the clothes we need to keep warm, the real winter chill arrived – and even brought snow! The children were thrilled to explore the snowy outdoors. They felt the crunch under their boots, noticed how cold the snow was, and shared brilliant ideas about why we wear coats, hats, scarves, and gloves in winter. Back inside, the creativity continued as the children made their own beautiful snow-themed pictures.