With Christ at our side to guide us,
we shine in all that we do.
The St. Bede’s Sports Leaders Team have been amazing this year supporting our younger children to get involved in healthy exercise with their friends. They organise a rich, variety of activities for our children to enjoy during lunchtimes. Thank you to all of our Sports Leaders for doing such a selfless role to inspire others to keep active!
I am delighted to share that one of our Y5 pupil’s has been selected to represent South Tyneside District Football team next season. He was initially nominated as an excellent footballer for the trials, with over 60 other elite boys from the borough. He went on to show a lot of skill, determination and maturity to negotiate multiple trials to make the final squad for the 2024-25 season. We look forward to following his progress next season, when he will play against the best footballers from the north east region – enjoy every moment knowing we are really proud of you!
The South Tyneside School Sport Network kindly delivered Team winners medals for our young Athletics Champions for their presentation today!
Our young stars also picked up some individual accolades as Josen & Hugo were joint first boys out of 240 boys; while Fearne was individual third for the girls from a massive 238. In a highly talented squad, Ralph and Ellen were both fourth overall, narrowly missing out on a podium finish. Meanwhile, four of our team will still be elgible to compete in the same event next year. Congratulations to the whole squad!
Our Y1/2 Gymnasts represented both South Tyneside and St. Bede’s today at the prestigious Royal Grammar School in Jesmond. They performed with confidence and composure, as they delivered excellent routines to the judges! While they didn’t medal on this occasion, they can be so proud of their fabulous performances!
Our team also had a great time enjoying a variety of fun gymnastics activities in a wonderful setting. Thank you to everyone for your efforts, I was so proud of you all today; I’m sure we’ll be back competing with the very best next year!
Three teams of pupils from Year 5 and Year 6 enjoyed competing at Monkton Stadium in the Quadkids Athletics event this week. Everyone tried so hard and should be extremely pleased with their performances and I was very proud to see everyone supporting each other with lots of enthusiasm and kind words. The children had buckets of positive energy and it was a delight to hear them cheering each other on. A huge ‘well done’ from Mrs Usher.
Thirty Y3/4 athletes had a wonderful time competing in the District Athletics Championships at Monkton Stadium; while we have also just found out that our A Team are District Champions – a great achievement considering there were 47 teams taking part!
All of our children had a great attitude in training and everyone aimed for personal best performances in the finals. Once again, the support throughout the squad for each other was so positive and up lifting- well done everyone!
The A team will now go on to represent South Tyneside in the County Finals on Friday 21st June at Monkton Stadium. They will compete against the best athletes from Newcastle, North Tyneside, Sunderland and Gateshead.
It was great to see so much support for St. Bede’s from our school community inside the stadium, which really helped inspire our teams.
Congratulations to our whole squad on a great day’s athletics and good luck to our A team in the County Finals!
Our three girls cricket teams had a great time at Whitburn CC today; where our A team were crowned District champions!
All of our girls have shown a lot of dedication in recent months playing cricket at lunchtimes; and it was wonderful to see them all enjoying themselves today in the District finals.
The A team showed a lot of outstanding batting, bowling, fielding skills and consistency to win all of their games; while the incredible team sprit they displayed was wonderful to watch!
Thank you to all of the girls for your positive attitude towards cricket in recent months, as it has been a pleasure to see you all embrace the game. Finally, thanks to our great parental helpers at Whitburn CC.
Well done to our two Y3 tennis teams who enjoyed a great morning at Boldon Tennis Club today. Both of our teams played superbly; while our A Team were unstoppable as they were overall group winners!
The children have really enjoyed playing tennis together in recent months, and have all excelled in a variety of skills challenges and singles matches.
I am super proud of all our tennis players and thank you to our brilliant parent helpers at Boldon who gave the children wonderful support.
Well done to our juniors who launched themselves into a variety of fun sporting and creative activities! Everyone developed new skills and the images below show their fantastic efforts throughout. Thank you for coming to our club!
Our brilliant new Boccia squad were fantastic today in their first tournament! Three St. Bede’s squads played with a lot of skill and game intelligence in a high level competition. Despite a valiant effort after registering many wins, our teams just missed out on the finals today.
However, it has been wonderful watching the children develop in practises and it was great watching them have so much fun with their friends at the event. I was very proud of all three of our Boccia teams!
Thank you to our brilliant parent helpers for supporting our children today. The parents got into the positive spirit of the event so much that they enjoyed a few games of Boccia themselves- brilliant!
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