Last week children attended the Gateshead Athletics Festival 2022. We thoroughly enjoyed taking part in all of the events, from sprinting to long distances running, the hurdles and the javelin. Well done to all children who competed, you did our school...
On Thursday, Key Stage One and Reception took part in sports day. There was a carousel of skills-based activities which the children enjoyed competing...
At Newburn Activity Centre Year 5 took part in a range of activities from: Archery, Rock Climbing and Team Games. In the afternoon, Year 5 participated in Sports Day whereby they demonstrated excellent sportsmanship- well done Year...
Children from Year 3 and Year 4 took part in a regional tennis tournament. The children were excellent and took 3rd place at the competition, taking home bronze medals....
We've been enjoying learning about and taking part in clog dancing lessons. We've found out that in the olden days, this was how people had fun and won prizes. We now know a couple of steps including a tap, spring and a stamp. ...
We held our own Blaydon Races in school last week. The children ran 1 mile around our school grounds and the Year 2 children learnt to sing the famous Blaydon Races song. This was part of our Erasmus project about the history of our local area....
Congratulations to the children who played really well in the basketball tournament at Whickham School. They played four games and did us very proud! Their dribbling, passing, shooting and defending skills from PE came into use. We came second in our group, well...
Great teamwork, skills and enthusiasm were displayed by the children in years 1 and 2 at the athletics festival at St Thomas More this week. Well done to you...
Year Six enjoyed creating, setting out, swapping then collecting their own orienteering routes within the school grounds today. Some people managed to find some points that were difficult to...
We have been practising our dribbling in basketball. We thought about how we should position our hand so that we had the best control of the ball, how high the bounce should be and also about how to protect the ball by bouncing it at the side of our...