Year 6 really impressed during their badminton unit in PE! They were able to transfer skills from their previous tennis unit to prepare them, helping them with: correct ready position, correct grip on the racket as well as understanding how forehand and backhand shots...
This week, the children in Nursery have enjoyed Bikeability. First, we learnt all about bike safety, why we wear a bike helmet and the parts of the bike. Then we practised moving around and keeping our balance, before building up some speed and practise gliding. The...
One of our football teams has just finished their tournament league fixtures. They played 3 league tournaments at Winlaton, playing 5 games each round. Our first tournament was a tough one resulting in defeats. This did not dampen our spirits as they continued to...
Today we enjoyed our second cricket session in school. We thoroughly enjoyed having a go at batting and fielding. Miss S was so impressed!
Today 3M and 7B represented their school in the Gateshead Dance Festival. The theme this year was courage and dressed as little Pinocchios, the kids showed enormous courage getting on one of the biggest stages in Gateshead. We are immensely proud of all their hard...
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...
