NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<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>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>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>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>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 &#8211; Muhammad ,Year 2 – Prayer at home , Year 3 – The Mosque , Year [&hellip;]</p>

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

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

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

<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the last week, the children have noticed some new signs around the KS1 and KS2 yards. We have new maps, maths displays and poems all around school. We hope they will inspire our pupils to become new geographers, scientists and poets!</p>

<p>Another group has started at Forest School this week. We learnt about the rules of Forest School; look after ourselves, look after each other and look after nature. We made a bracelet with 3 colours to remind ourselves of the rules. We then went off into the woods to explore and discover. We found some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Here is a reminder of all of the different ways that school is available to support you and your family through the cost of living crisis. winter help letter Nov 22</p>

<p>Some of our children from Years 3, 4 and 5 visited Seven Stories today where they met Lauren Child, the author of the Charlie and Lola books. She is the inspiration for this year&#8217;s Fenwick&#8217;s Christmas window! The children met Lauren and listened to her read an extract of Clarice Bean: Think Like an Elf. [&hellip;]</p>