St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School

12/10/2026

💛 What a Hello Yellow day we had! 💛

At St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School, Windermere, we had a fantastic day celebrating the importance of mental health and wellbeing as part of Hello Yellow Day in support of YoungMinds 💛

Mental health is just as important as physical health. It’s all about our thoughts, feelings and emotions, and it’s important that we talk about them, look after ourselves and remember that it’s always okay to ask for help. 🌟

On Friday, we spent the morning looking after our own wellbeing through a range of fun activities, including emotion bingo, brain breaks, sleeping lions (as requested by our School Council), exploring different wellbeing ideas and designing posters filled with positive affirmations. 💭✨

The positive vibes continued throughout the day! At break time, we enjoyed some happy music, plenty of dancing (including learning some line dances! 💃🕺), basketball and colouring. There were smiles all round! 😊

We are also delighted to share that, thanks to everyone’s generosity, we raised just over £30 for YoungMinds to support their important work with children and young people’s mental health. 💛

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make our Hello Yellow Day so special.
Let’s keep spreading positivity, kindness and the message that our mental health matters every day! 💛🌈

08/10/2026

💛🌟 HELLO YELLOW – TOMORROW! 🌟💛

Tomorrow, we’re joining in with Hello Yellow to support young people’s mental health and raise money for YoungMinds. 💛

We’d love everyone to get involved by:

💛 Coming to school wearing something yellow (or a yellow accessory)
💛 Bringing in £1, or whatever you can afford, to help support this fantastic cause.

Mental health matters, and it’s so important that we remind our children that it’s good to talk, it’s okay not to be okay, and there is always someone who will listen. 💛

Let’s come together, spread some sunshine and show our support for young people’s mental health! ☀️💛

💛 YoungMinds

08/10/2026

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ Well done, KS2! 👏

A huge well done to our KS2 children who took part in the inter-schools cross-country event at The Lakes School yesterday! 🌟

We are so proud of you all for your fantastic effort, determination and resilience. You showed great perseverance, challenged yourselves and represented our school brilliantly! 💪💙

Well done to everyone who took part — you should all be incredibly proud of yourselves! 🏅

💙 The Lakes School Windermere UK South Lakes School Games Active Cumbria

02/10/2026

30/09/2026

Stewards of creation 🌍

In RE today we have been learning about how to be good stewards of creation. Stewards of creation look after our earth, care about how our Earth is treated by others and are responsible for taking actions in their daily lives to manage the earth and its resources rather than exploiting them.
As a class we talked about ways we can be good stewards of creation - recycling ♻️ , giving to charity, using less fuel, caring for plants and animals, saving water 💦 and electricity ⚡️ and not cutting down as many trees 🌲
We created our own posters to put around our school and as you can see we worked very hard on them!

Diocese of Lancaster Education Service

28/09/2026

💚 A HUGE THANK YOU! 💚

A massive thank you to everyone who supported our Macmillan Coffee Morning Cake Sale on Friday! 🧁🍰☕️

We are absolutely delighted to share that, together, we raised an incredible £124.90! 🎉👏

Thank you to everyone who baked, donated, bought cakes and supported this very special cause. Every penny will help support Macmillan in the amazing work they do for people living with cancer and their families. 💚

We are so proud of our wonderful Team Cuthberts community! Well done to our School Council for running the event.
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Thank you for your generosity and support — what a fantastic total! 💚

Macmillan Cancer Support

25/09/2026

🌧️💚 A BIG WELCOME TO OUR NEW WATER BUTT! 💚🌧️

It was lovely to welcome Louise from Brockhole Learning to school as she delivered our brand-new water butt, kindly gifted to us by United Utilities. 💧🌱

Even more special, the beautiful decorations around the water butt are all the work of our children! 🎨👏 We love seeing their creativity become part of our school environment.

We’re looking forward to putting our water butt to good use, collecting rainwater and making the most of this precious natural resource. 🌍💧

Our Eco Club are particularly excited and can’t wait to get started! 🌿🐝

A huge thank you to United Utilities and Brockhole Learning for helping us make our school even more environmentally friendly. 💚

🌍💧Brockhole on Windermere

25/09/2026

We had an epic adventure to start our day! 🚁

Our usual Thursday morning walk turned into possibly the best morning we have had this year so far!

We were ready to collect some conkers on the Rec and as we arrived we saw a helicopter that had landed. We went over and the lovely pilot Anthony showed us round the helicopter, answered our questions and even let us sit inside the helicopter! He explained that he was there to collect a poorly patient and was guarding the helicopter whilst waiting for the doctors and patient to arrive.

We were able to watch from a distance as it took off as well! It was very loud but the helicopter flew right over us!

We have done lots of work this half term on people who help us in our community so we were so excited to chat to him about his job and the importance of the air ambulance to our community.

Thank you so much to Anthony at Great North Air Ambulance Service gnairambulance for a fantastic experience. Fundraising incoming . . . .

24/09/2026

Our Explorers have been busy learning all about Baptism and exploring the meaning behind the special symbols used during the sacrament — including water, oil, a candle and the beautiful signs and actions that make Baptism so special. 💧🕊️

We are so lucky to have St Herbert’s and Our Lady of Windermere church right on our doorstep, giving our children the opportunity to experience their learning in such a meaningful and memorable way. ⛪️❤️

The children absolutely loved bringing their learning to life by taking part in a Baptism of baby Poppy. They took on the roles of parents, godparents and other members of the Baptismal celebration, thinking carefully about the responsibilities and promises made during this special sacrament. 👶🏼💧✨

What a wonderful way to learn, explore and understand our faith through real-life experiences.

Well done, Explorers! 🌟

⛪️💙 Diocese of Lancaster Education Service

23/09/2026

Vet visit 🐶🐾🩺

This afternoon we were lucky enough to have a visit from Alex who works as a vet at Oakhill Vets. Alex came to chat to us about his job as a vet to support EYFS with their learning about pets and KS1’s Science topic Living things and their habitats.

We had a fantastic afternoon learning about what Alex does on a day to day basis, the kinds of animals he treats and what he treats them for. The children learnt about how Alex would perform a check up on a pet, how he would look after a horses teeth, what he might do if an animal has broken a bone and even how he would release trapped gas in a cow!

It was a wonderful hands on, informative session which gave the children valuable insight into a verts job and the important role they play in our community caring for living things.

Thank you so much to Alex for giving up his time to come into school and talk to us!