Sports
Interhouse Sports Day
Wow, what a day Tuesday was in school as we participated in our SPRING interhouse sports day. Although the morning started with a blanket of snow and that frost nipped at our feet, the children thoroughly enjoyed the day filled with activity. It was wonderful to see...
Inter-house Sports Day Year 1
Year 1 have participated in lots of different activities today with the aim of collecting house points for their team. We started the day off by discussing what it means to be a team and the values needed to be a successful team. We identified we needed to be...
Celebration Assembly
We had a wonderful, all be it, slightly different celebration assembly this morning with many of our children collecting their merits in their ‘World Book Day’ outfits! Each Friday our children have the chance to stand in front of the school proudly as their names are...
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...
OPAL UPDATE
OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) at St. Aidan’s has really began to develop over the last few months in school. Even though we have a proportion of our yard closed off, we have proactively developed the current areas we have in school and created a wonderful...
Apparatus skills in Year 6
This half term in PE we have been focusing on our gymnastics skills. The children have enjoyed leading our stretches and developing their terminology during each lesson. We have explored a variety of travelling movements and balances and working towards performing...
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...
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...
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...