Physical Education
Through the study of PE, our pupils will understand the importance of healthy living, fitness and know how their bodies work. They will also learn the value of teamwork and develop collaboration skills alongside positive decision making .They will develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities, be physically active for sustained periods of time, engagement in competitive sports and activities and lead healthy, active lives.
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Children will learn subject specific vocabulary relating to their year group, this can be accessed by clicking on this document:
Physical Education Progression of Vocabulary
School Clubs
We have had two wonderful afterschool clubs this term delivered by experienced practitioners of skateboarding and fencing. Both clubs were organised to target a range of new and exciting sports that children may have never had the chance to try. Along with our variety...
Children’s Mental Health Week
This week has been children’s mental health week. Reception class have been talking about their feeling and emotions. To help us think about ourselves we created flowers using our hand prints and drew a small self portrait of ourselves, placing it in the centre of the...
Little Folk NE in Nursery
Today Nursery had a visit from Sally from Little Folk NE. Sally is a makaton trainer and runs pre-school sessions teaching children makaton signs through music, stories and sensory play. The children had lots of fun and were fantastic at using the signs in the songs...
Year 5 Gymnasts
This half term our PE topic is gymnastics. We have been exploring different travelling movements including forward rolls, teddy bear rolls, backward rolls and cartwheels. We have focused on our technique and control and linking each movement together seamlessly. We...
Forest School
This week at forest School we looked around the forest School area for sticks. The sticks needed to be medium size, so that we could make woodland wands. Using the found sticks we added leaves, grass and then some glitter, shredded paper and stars.
Blazing The Trail – Logo Design Competition
This year we are once again working towards The Blazing The Trail Project which is ran by the Gateshead School Sport Partnership's Olympic Legacy Programme. The Excellence project for this half term has allowed pupils to get creative and design the new Blazing The...
Our Gymnastics Performance
Sit back and enjoy our long awaited gymnastics performance from the #INSPIRE Gateshead Schools Gymnastics and Cheerleading Festival back in December. As you can see the children worked exceptionally hard on their performance and proudly represented St Aidan's. Well...
Gingerbread
This half term we are learning all about Traditional tales, beginning with the story of the Gingerbread man. This morning we read the story and made our very own Gingerbread men. We mixed the ingredients, rolled out the dough and cooked them in the oven, luckily they...
Interhouse Sports Day Autumn 2022
What a fantastic day we had on Thursday this week with our winter Interhouse Sports Day. Our children were able to get warmed up in the cold weather with some super active learning. This term, we focused the day on learning all about ‘The World Cup’ – with the final...
Meet our Art Ambassadors!
This year, as a school, we are working towards achieving the Artsmark Award, which recognises schools that celebrate and promote the arts within school and the wider community. We will be taking part in various projects throughout the year, working alongside artists,...