With Christ at our side to guide us,
we shine in all that we do.
The Y5/6 Tag Rugby team competed in a seven team Champions League event at the District Finals. The St. Bede’s team played with flair and pace in attack, while showing resolute defence as they won team silver medals.
I was extremely proud of the children, who have really improved in recent training sessions and performed superbly. Everyone in the squad contributed so much to the team!
The Scientists in Science Club tonight learnt about forces. The children each created a cone shape which they shaped into a mouse. They then placed their mouse on top of a plastic bottle.
The children found that when they squashed their plastic bottles, the air inside was pushed out through the top and the force created sent the rocket mice flying into the air.
The children had different sized bottles and discovered that the harder they bashed their bottle, the stronger the force of escaping air and the higher the mouse rocketed.
Today the children took part in a very important workshop all about how to cross the road safely. We learned some actions to help us ‘Stop, look, listen, think!’ and practiced crossing a road using traffic lights.
Fours teams of St. Bede’s Basketballers participated in the Hoops4Health tournament at Temple Park. All of our sides enjoyed the day, while two met in the semi-finals. One of our sides then went on to beat East Boldon in an exciting Play-Off Final. They will now play in the District Grand Final (Friday 7th February) at the Newcastle Eagles Community Arena.
We were all extremely proud of all the children who trained enthusiastically for the event, while it was great to see lots of brilliant parental support.
Today Year 1 have had a visit from Lori, who is part of South Tyneside’s Road Safety team. She spoke to the children about how to stay safe when walking on the pavement, and how to cross a road safely. Lori explained that there are four important things to do before crossing a road.
Stop
Look
Listen
Think
The children were also told about other ways of crossing the road including using a pedestrian crossing, lolly pop person and a zebra crossing.
Y3 enjoyed a wonderful Prehistory day at Durham University. The children analysed primary sources from the Stone Age, completed an exciting gallery trail and produced Iron Age emblems by metal embossing.
Everyone had a great day, while it was also lovely to take in a few of the sites like Durham Cathedral!
Y3 enjoyed an exciting Skipping Workshop where they enjoyed learning a variety of individual, pairs and team skipping skills. Everyone had a great time and I hope everyone continues to enjoy skipping in future PE sessions.
Well done to our last winners of 2019!
Congratulations to our November Pupils of the Month!
Who will be crowned December Pupils of the Month? Medals will be given out just before the Christmas break.
Our Sportshall Athletics team were in good form at the District event, where the children claimed Team silver medals. Everyone contributed to the team effort and had a great time at the competition. Amazingly, over half of the team were from Y4 and Y5, which made us even prouder of their performances!
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