With Christ at our side to guide us,
we shine in all that we do.
While traditional sports may have modified recently, there are still many, lovely moments from the early part of the academic year to look back on with pride. Our children participated in great numbers and achieved a lot. It has also been great to see children continuing to keep active at home, by doing all sorts of physical activities.
Well done everyone, enjoy a fun, active summer!
Congratulations to our fabulous Skipping team who became South Tyneside Catholic Schools Champions today! Our children excelled in individual, pairs and various team skipping activities, including a wonderfully choreographed Skip Dance!
The children have shown dedication in PE sessions, while Miss Moffett has worked incredibly hard teaching the children after school and at break times. The standard was high on the day, but our children rose to the challenge magnificently.
Our children became Hoopstarz for Sport Relief and had great fun hula hooping and learning a variety of tricks! It was wonderful to see the whole school involved in healthy activity, with many teachers showing off their hula skills too! Thank you to everyone who kindly donated to Sport Relief as we raised £161 together.
Our fantastic Basketball players became South Tyneside Champions at the Newcastle Eagles Community Arena on Friday night! Cheered on by family, friends and teachers, the St. Bede’s team clinched the title in front of a capacity crowd.
St. Bede’s beat a talented Stanhope 4-2 in the semi-final in an exciting end to end game. The final was played at half time in the Eagles v London Lions game; which meant that there were thousands watching on. In a tight final, St. Bede’s defence was to prove unbreachable; while a slick attack was finished off by Daniel Rutter to clinch victory in a close encounter against a very good Biddick Hall side.
Captain Ellen Knowles delightfully lifted the Hoops4health trophy, and will now get the opportunity to lead her team back to the Arena to contest the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Cup later in the year.
Our whole squad trained with so much enthusiasm for the finals and it was wonderful to see their collective determination and skill displayed on such a big stage. Everyone from the St. Bede’s community who travelled to Newcastle were visibly proud of the team’s attitude and wonderful achievement. As a coach, I could not have been prouder!
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!
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.
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.
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!
Our new football team have already played six games into their new season, and have made a fine start with four victories. The Y6 boys have shown some great leadership, to support several players from Y5 and Y4 in a youthful squad. The team should look forward with confidence to the fixtures resuming in 2020!
Y5 enjoyed an inspiring Roadshow delivered by the Newcastle Eagles basketball players. Children learned about how they can live healthy lives, and enjoyed trying their hand at basketball under the watchful eye of the Eagles stars!
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