We continued our trips to watch elite sports events across the 22-23 academic year with visits to see football at The Stadium of Light, Ice Hockey at Whitley Bay, Basketball at Newcastle Vertu Arena, Rugby League at Kingston Park and T20 Blast at The Riverside Cricket...
Sports Blog
Football season kicks off
Our y5/6 mixed football team have been in action over the past few weeks in the Durham SSP schools' league. They waited a long time for a victory, and two came in one night! They have done our school and themselves proud with how they conduct themselves at sporting...
If you can see it, you can be it!
We are delighted to be able to take our pupils to elite sporting events across the coming year, enhancing pupils' personal development and raising the profile of sport. We have an exciting calendar of opportunities planned that will see us attending sport events all...
Dancers back to competing!
It was great to get back to showcasing our dance talents at the Primary Dance Festival at Durham's Gala Theatre in April 2022. A mixed-age group of 25 pupils performed a beautiful contemporary routine to 'Speechless' from Aladdin. Following that, our Y5/6 class...
The football season returns!
It's been a long wait for our footballers to get back to inter-school competition, so they were so excited when autumn brought about the opportunity to play in a tournament with Durham SSP. The team kicked off their season with a narrow defeat, 1-0, but immediately...
Special guests at The Stadium of Light
We were delighted to be invited by our friends at AK teaching to be the flagbearers for Sunderland AFC V Bolton in September 2021. Nine very lucky pupils got to represent school with the full VIP treatment at the match which ended up with a victory for Sunderland....
AfPE award with distinction!
We were thrilled to receive news in July 2021 that we had successfully regained AfPE award for sport and PE provision in school, this time with DISTINCTION! This is the highest accolade available for school sport and PE provision and the assessor was greatly impressed...
Athletics’ Records’ Day 2021
Every year, our pupils in Years 3- 6 have the opportunity to compete in our annual athletics' records' day. This builds on from the athletics unit that all of our junior classes undertake during summer term 2. Everyone competes in seven events: 50m sprint, 600m run,...
Sports’ day 2021
Sports' day during covid has been a little bit different, but we're so proud to have been able to still carry it out in 2020 and 2021. In 2021, we had to host sports' day in two sessions as we had some bubble closures in the summer. That way, all children still got to...