Year 5 had lots of fun taking part in the fitness festival at Thorp Academy. They took part in a variety of activities which included different components of fitness such as: running, jumping, leaping, throwing and catching. It was brilliantly ran by Thorps' year 8...
The fabulous Phil from Durham Grassroots Cricket Club came in today for 3M first session of their cricket training. The children absolutely loved their first session and can’t wait for the next.
The children in nursery listened to the story Whatever Next, we then went outside and made our own moon boots to go to the moon. They were quite tricky to balance on and the children showed great resilience and determination to keep trying and balance....
Year 5 and 6 have been enjoying their tennis unit in PE, learning and practising lots of ball and racket skills. Over the past couple of weeks children have developed their ability to hit the ball with increasing accuracy and change of direction and speed, as well as...
Today, we received our knitted angel from Gateshead Library to celebrate the Angel of the North turning 25 on Wednesday 15th February 2023. Today, we took our angel swimming to Blaydon swimming pool!
Well done to our fantastic basketball team who finished as runners up at the Thorp cluster tournament! Everyone worked amazingly hard in all of the games and supported each other tremendously well. There were some awesome skills on show and even better shots! We came...
Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their dance unit in PE. In each lesson we focused on a different type of stimulus to help with our movement and creativity. We were really inspired by the likes of Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland. Each lesson our aim was to be able to...
As we look to next week where we have some of our year 6 children out for a basketball tournament at Thorp Academy, let's take a look at what the children got up to in their basketball PE unit. The children developed their ability to: dribble the ball at a jogging...
Reception children visited Gateshead Leisure Centre and took part in a range of multi-skills activities. It was a lot of fun but exhausting! The children worked very hard and worked well together as a team to complete the different activities. They used a range of...
