NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>&nbsp; As a school, our parents and carers helped us to raise nearly £300 through the ASDA Cashpot for Schools. Our school council were given the task of deciding how the money would be spent. The asked each class and made a list of new equipment for the yard. This week, the order of new [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today we celebrated a wonderful final Mass of the school year, in honour of both our patron St Lawrence and our Year 6 leavers. Year 6 led us in prayer, reminding us of Lawrence&#8217;s incredible strength in the face of hardship, and his understanding that the sick and needy were the real treasures of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was Year 6&#8217;s turn to visit Seaton Delaval Hall as part of our partnership with the National Trust. We had a fabulous time exploring the beautiful gardens and learning about the fascinating history of the estate and house. What&#8217;s more, each child received a pass so that they can take their families to visit [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was Year 6&#8217;s turn to visit Seaton Delaval Hall as part of our partnership with the National Trust. We had a fabulous time exploring the beautiful gardens and learning about the fascinating history of the estate and house. What&#8217;s more, each child received a pass so that they can take their families to visit [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To celebrate the arrival of JMW Turner&#8217;s &#8216;The Fighting Temeraire&#8217; at Newcastle&#8217;s Laing art gallery, Year 6 researched Turner&#8217;s watercolour &#8216;The Sun at Venice&#8217; and tried their hands at producing a watercolour of school with some of Turner&#8217;s sense of light. As you&#8217;ll agree, the results are hugely impressive!</p>

<p>Pentecost Sunday marked the beginning of our First Holy Communion Masses at St Lawrence&#8217;s church. Four of our children received the Blesses Sacrament for the first time in a beautiful Mass. We are so proud of how hard the children worked to prepare themselves, and the prayerfulness with which they approached this huge step in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some lucky children in Year 6 had the chance to meet TRH the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. Their Royal Highnesses were visiting the Veterans Launchpad charity in Byker, who work with veterans of the armed forces. Our children spoke to the Duke and Duchess calmly and politely when they were asked questions. Well done!</p>

<p>Required for September 2024 St Lawrence’s Catholic Primary School is proudly a part of the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust. At St Lawrence’s we live and learn in faith and love, through Jesus’ teachings.  Our school is a family where we support each other and strive to fulfil our full potential. The Local Governing Committee [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Please find attached a copy of the Spring term newsletter. A copy has been sent home and it has also been shared on Class Dojo.newsletter march 2024</p>

<p>We had a fabulous day celebrating books for World Book Day. Everyone read the book Barbara Throws a Wobbler, and learnt about the best way to manage our emotions. The children created excellent drawings and even cartoons around the themes of the book. We celebrated our Story in our Box competition entries. All of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St Lawrence&#8217;s gathered together this afternoon together with some of the people of our parish and Father Jonathan to mark the beginning of Lent with a special Celebration of the Word. During the service Father Jonathan invited us to think about things that we might give up for Lent that we will try to never [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 4 had a wonderful time as we took part in practice day 1 of this year&#8217;s Skipping School! Chris from Skipping School showed us some new skipping techniques and helped us to be healthy and enjoy ourselves. This is only the beginning &#8211; we will keep practising until we take part in a skipping [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Congratulations to our attendance prize winners. Each winner&#8217;s attendance has been over 98% for the whole autumn term. We have given away bikes, skateboards, games, vouchers and special match day tickets for 13 January! Well done to all of the winners and their families for their excellent attendance.</p>

<p>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&#8217; Park. What is more, they got to see Newcastle United&#8217;s triumphant 4-0 win over Crystal Palace. This fantastic experience was truly deserved, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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&#8217; Park. What is more, they got to see Newcastle United&#8217;s triumphant 4-0 win over Crystal Palace. This fantastic experience was truly deserved, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>