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.

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.

In recent months, it has been wonderful to see the yard filled with children from Y3 and Y4 keeping fit by trying a variety of skipping movements. Subsequently, the skipping team put in a wonderful performance at the South Tyneside Skipping Competition.

Amazingly, every child in the squad achieved a gold, silver or bronze certificate in their individual or team event. In a close contest all the way to the end, we came a highly creditable close second. This was a fantastic effort considering half of our squad were only Y3.

I was so proud of the team spirit and wonderful dedication to practice after school, lunchtimes and at playtime to reach such a high standard. I am also very proud of how selfless Miss Moffett and Mrs McVittie have been to make time to choreograph and teach a brilliant Skip Dance to the children.

Our Y3 children enjoyed a visit from Skipping teacher Liz (Skipping School Ltd) on Wednesday. The children had a lot of fun trying a variety of individual and pairs skipping skills. The children’s behaviour was exemplary, while Liz was very impressed with their skills.