With Christ at our side to guide us,
we shine in all that we do.
All of Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic Skipping festival today!
Everyone enjoyed learning a variety of individual, pairs and team skipping skills. Meanwhile, there was a wonderful backdrop of Christmas music playing to encourage everyone and to get us into the festive spirit.
Thank you to our fantastic parent helpers who supported the children by swinging ropes and bringing plenty of festive cheer!
Our Y5/6 Gymnastics A team came within a mere 0.05 points of becoming District Champions today; in an incredibly tight and high-quality competition at The Urban Factory. Ultimately, we claimed brilliant District team silver medals, while Hugo earned a wonderful individual bronze medal as we successfully featured on both podiums.
This was the first time we had developed a St. Bede’s Y5/6 Gymnastics team and despite some unfortunate injuries, we all believed our determined squad could really challenge for the District title.
In training, our gymnasts enthusiastically created imaginative routines that included a variety of skills, travels, leaps and spins. Today everyone showed great courage and composure to perform so well in front of the four judges. Personally, I watched on in awe as our children showcased their inspiring abilities- I was so proud of you all!
It was wonderful to see the team spirit among our children as they all supported each other throughout. As well as competing, all of our gymnasts enjoyed exploring a variety of fun activities at the brilliant Urban factory.
Thank you to our fantastic parent helper who encouraged our children during the event. Thank you also to the parents, who practised the routine with their children at home – they all did so well today!
Year 1 had a fantastic morning at Temple Park, where they took part in a range of festive themed multi-skills activities. The children enjoyed trying out different challenges, including throwing, jumping and running events, all designed to help develop their coordination, teamwork and confidence.
Everyone looked wonderful in their Christmas attire, bringing lots of cheer and excitement to the festival.
The Sportshall Athletics team achieved a brilliant team silver in the District Finals today in an event containing 24 teams!
Consequently, we have qualified to represent South Tyneside in the County Finals on Friday 9th January – what an exciting start to the new year this promises to be! Our children will compete against the best schools from Newcastle, Sunderland, North Tyneside and Gateshead.
Our athletes have shown great dedication to train for the competition and everyone performed superbly at today’s event. There were many fantastic performances, which saw many of our children produce personal bests!
I was so proud of how everyone supported each other; congratulations to everyone in our squad! Thank you also to our fantastic parent helpers today who supported the children so well throughout.
This week, Year 5 participated in a dodgeball event at Temple Park. Several schools joined together to play dodgeball and have lots of fun!
During the course of the morning, sports leaders were on the lookout for pupils who demonstrated core sporting values. Two of our pupils were awarded certificates – one for passion and one for honesty.
The entire class showed amazing effort and were so supportive of one another. It was joyous to hear them cheering each other on and sharing words of encouragement. Well done, Year 5!
Our talented Cross Country squad were proudly presented with their gold medals today, after recently becoming South Tyneside Team Champions 2025. Their record breaking score of 168 points meant that they finished 187 points ahead of the second placed team – an incredible achievement! Well done to everyone – we are very proud of you all!
Our Y3 mini-archaeologists enjoyed an interesting Stone-Bronze Age day at the Museum of Archaeology in Durham! We learned about the chronology of Prehistory and analysed an exciting range of ancient artefacts. The children completed an exciting gallery trail and also considered what we could deduce from the bones of a skeleton. Y3 conducted themselves superbly throughout the visit and even took in some of the sites of a picturesque Durham. Thank you also to our great parent helpers!
Wow – What. A. Team!!
Eight teams from St. Bede’s consisting of 41 children became South Tyneside Team Cross Country Champions today!
Firstly, it was wonderful to have so many boys and girls representing our school in a single event. Our children showed incredible energy to support their friends and amazing consistency of high-level performances from Year 3 right through to Year 6.
Our young athletes have shown great dedication to train for the competition and everyone strived for personal best performances on the day. We had 3 individual District Champions, multiple podium finishers and remarkably 5 different year group team champions; ultimately everyone contributed so much to our collective team.
There were many excellent ‘sporty schools’ at the event consisting of over 400 children, so our children should be very proud to be the overall top team on the day.
Personally I was so proud of how everyone relentlessly supported each other and the amazing parental support at Temple Park. When we genuinely support each other, it can take you a long way together.
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!
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.
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