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St Bede’s Art Gallery

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🎨 Our First St Bede’s Art Gallery!

We’re delighted to invite you to explore our very first St Bede’s Art Gallery, a celebration of creativity, reflection, and faith. Over the past academic year, children from Nursery to Year 5 have taken part in the Spirited Arts competition, exploring the theme “All God’s Creatures.”

Each piece of artwork has been thoughtfully linked to words from Scripture, helping our pupils reflect on the beauty and meaning of God’s creation. From colourful collages to intricate sculptures, the children have poured their hearts into expressing how animals and nature connect to faith, care, and wonder.

🖼️ The gallery is on display for you to enjoy from Monday to Wednesday this week on your way to and from the curriculum meetings. We hope it brings you joy, inspiration, and pride in the incredible work your children have created.

This is our first time hosting an art gallery, and we hope to make it a yearly tradition—not only to showcase our children’s talents, but also to help raise funds for the school.

📖 Before you leave, please take a moment to share your feedback or ideas in the book provided at the door. Your thoughts will help us grow and make future exhibitions even more special.

Thank you for your continued support.

Summer Sport & Art Club 2025!

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Our children were all amazing in our Summer Sport & Art Club this week! We took full advantage of the dry, sunny weather to enjoy a wide variety of activities around our school grounds.

The children embraced all of the activities with a great attitude and really enjoyed themselves with their friends, while developing new skills. I’m sure the club will also help many of the Infant children in their transition to the juniors in September; while it was a joy teaching our talented children.

I hope you all have a great summer with your families and continue to enjoy keeping active and creative!

Sports Day 2025!

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Well done to all of our children who enjoyed taking part in our Sports Day in such a positive spirit in the South Shields sunshine. It was great to see them supported by our wonderful school community with so many warm smiles on the day. Congratulations to Bernadette who retained their title by a narrow 3 points with the event going down to the final race. Thank you once again to everyone who made this a lovely community event.

 

 

Congratulations Roman – District Football Team Selection!

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Congratulations to Roman who has been selected to represent South Tyneside Football team next season. He will play alongside and against the best footballers in the north east region. Roman performed superbly progressing through several trials in the summer term, before being selected for the final District squad – an incredible achievement! We are  all very proud of you at St. Bede’s Roman and hope you enjoy every moment of the experience; personally I look forward to following your exciting journey next season.

Year 6 – A Sporting Memory Lane …

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During their time at St. Bede’s, Year 6 have contributed so much to school sport and it has been lovely getting to know them and seeing them grow. Looking back nostalgically at these photos, there have been many wonderful memories of the children enjoying physical activity together. It is sad that Y6 wll be moving on this week; but good luck in your new schools where I’m sure you will thrive and thankyou for many magical moments at St. Bede’s.

Mr. McVittie

 

 

Summer Sport Certificate Presentation!

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Congratulations to the many children who have represented St. Bede’s during the summer term in athletics, cricket and gymnastics. We also had the pleasure of presenting a trophy to Sam who has represented the District football team this season. Everyone has shown a lot of determination in their performances and I look forward to seeing your development next year. Thank you for your great efforts!

Double District Gold Athletes – Medal Ceremony!

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Our Y3/4 & Y5/6 athletes were presented with their gold medals today which were kindly provided by the South Tyneside School Sport Network. Earlier this month they sensationally both became South Tyneside Champions at Monkton Stadium. Both teams then went on to represent our District in the County Finals where they again performed superbly. Congratulations on your golden performances!

Year 6 Leavers’ Disco

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On Monday night, our wonderful year 6’s enjoyed their school Leavers’ Disco.

We had the great DJ George Thompson playing the tunes and getting the children involved in some very competitive games!

The girls turned up looking glamorous, the boys turned up looking cool……. they all left looking dishevelled and a little sweaty!!

They also enjoyed a McDonald’s Happy Meal which were kindly funded by our lovely PTFA.

The children and staff had a great evening.

Y3 Orienteering Certificates For Our Outdoor Adventurers!

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Last week Y3 were presented with their Orienteering certificates after their brilliant teamwork and problem solving skills helped them to navigate around Marine Park recently.

I look forward to presenting more certificates and medals on Tuesday for recent events.

Y3 Art Nouveau & Patterns in Nature

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We have many keen artists in Y3 and they have really enjoyed their Patterns in Nature unit. The inspiration has been the brilliant Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art Nouveau era (1890’s to the eve of World War One). The children have explored using a wide range of art and design techniques using colour, pattern, tone, line and shape. They have especially loved painting with watercolours to control tone in their pantings. They have produced some wonderful art that they should all be proud of- well done everyone!

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