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

Gymnastic’s Superstars

Gymnastic’s Superstars

Over the past six weeks, 21 children from KS2 have worked incredibly hard in their after school club to create an exciting gymnastics floor routine. The children have worked on improving their rolls, cartwheels and flexibility as well as perfecting their timing, team...

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Forest School

Forest School

We had a fun afternoon making stick people from small twigs and sticks found in our forest school area.We collected three sticks and arranged them to form arms and legs for our stick people. Using our fine motor skills we used string to secure the sticks in place.

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We Going On A Bear Hunt

In maths, children have continued to develop their mathematical vocabulary for positional language. Reception gathered to enjoy the story titled, ‘We Are Going On A Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen. Children performed the actions of swishing and swashing like the long,...

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Year 4 Archery

Today Year 4 were given a fantastic opportunity to have a go at archery. We learnt about the bow and arrow, how to hold it, aim and fire towards a target. We learnt lots of different strategies to improve our accuracy and played some team games. It was great to have a...

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Gymnastics at Kingsmeadow School

This morning, Year 2 travelled to Kingsmeadow school in Dunston to take part in a Gymnastics sports morning. When we arrived, all of the activities were set up and we were told that children from the Sports Leadership team in Kingsmeadow School were going to lead each...

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Cross Country Run

Cross Country Run

We had the wonderful opportunity to compete against an array of schools in the recent cross-country tournament held by Gateshead SSP. In promoting PE across the school, we have already been able to attend 3 sporting events this term with more to follow and our...

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Library, books and poetry

Library, books and poetry

We have been celebrating all thing literary this week in school in libraries week. We talked about our nightmare school in RSHE and how Miss Trunchbull would be a nightmare teacher, which led us on to discuss Mrs Bullerwell's favourite book by Roald Dahl -Matilda....

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Year 5 Girls 5-A-Side Football

Year 5 Girls 5-A-Side Football

This week, six girls from Year 5 represented our school in a 5-A-side football tournament at Powerleague. We are very lucky to have this fantastic facility in such a short walk from our school. The girls competed against lots of other schools in Gateshead and were...

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FOREST SCHOOL WITH STOMPING GROUNDS YEAR 6

FOREST SCHOOL WITH STOMPING GROUNDS YEAR 6

Wow! What an amazing day we had with Stomping Grounds at the Riverside forest school site. Our children were enthralled with the activities they engaged in today. From den building, fire lighting, performance play, creative play, whittling sticks for pencils and...

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Forest School and The Castle

Forest School and The Castle

Every week no matter the weather we visit Forest School. This week it rained,so we put on our water proofs and boots as independently as we could. If we needed help our friends helped. Once we were ready to play out in the rain we had lots of fun with our friends,...

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