Year 3 Mini Tennis

Anyone for Tennis........

Yesterday was one of our many participation events aimed at getting more young people active and linking to extra curricular opportunities across Newcastle. Walkergate and West Walker Primary schools attended the mini tennis and received an hours coaching and an hours competition at West Gate 'Centre for Sport'. Everyone worked on some basic fundamental movements of tennis and then had a chance to demonstrate these skills in some organised tournaments of matched ability.

A real highlight for us was the attitude of all the pupils to engage in the challenges and tournament, most of whom had never played tennis before. We are now convinced the next Andy Murray is in a school in the East End of Newcastle and we look forward to the next chance to work with the pupils again.

The next mini tennis competition is for year 4 and is a qualifying competition for our Tyne & Wear School Games  programme and we already have 3 schools signed up and working through some schemes of work back at school in preparation.

If you would like to enter the next mini tennis competition contact the school games office on 0191 265 6091 ext 317.

Newcastle School Games & Streetgames Sports Leadership

Newcastle School Games team and StreetGames have linked up to provide sports leadership opportunities for some of our older pupils across the city. The StreetGames programme is managed and coordinated by Active Newcastle across the city providing opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas to participate in a variety of sports as well as access coaching and leadership training.

We have now completed 2 training days, the first involved St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School working with St Cuthbert’s (Kenton) Primary School and yesterday (11^th March) was the 2nd with the cohort of BTEC students from Walker Technology College delivering to some year 5 pupils from Central Newcastle C of E in the afternoon.

The format was for the sports leaders to receive training from StreetGames in the morning and then organise and deliver some activities to younger pupils from a feeder school. Each sports leader received a certificate from StreetGames and has also been signposted to some of the StreetGames programmes running at ‘Centre for Sport’ and Walker Activity Dome.

StreetGames is a sports charity that changes lives and communities, they do it by supporting a network of projects which give sports and volunteering opportunities to young people in disadvantaged communities across the UK. Doorstep sport is StreetGames’ delivery method, whereby bringing sport close to the home in disadvantaged communities at the right time, for the right price, to the right place and in the right style.

Ian Kendall from our School Games team commented “The partnership with StreetGames is one which allows us to provide structured and coordinated training with opportunities to further develop sports leadership skills in a community programme outside of the curriculum. I have been really impressed with the standard of delivery from both St Cuthbert’s and Walker Tech pupils”.

Duncan O’Farrell from Active Newcastle said “This partnership has provided us with a route into schools to further extend our programme and help us to develop a workforce of young people to lead and assists at our clubs. I look forward to seeing some of the leaders at any of our venues and will continue to offer support to further develop they leadership roles as either coaches or officials”.

Jane Kemp, PE Teacher from Walker Technology College said “ Our BTEC students have demonstrated that they are more than capable of delivering this type of activity and seem to have really enjoyed the whole day”.

 

Yr 7 & 8 Aviva Sportshall Athletics

This unique indoor competition is being delivered across Tyne and Wear by School Games Organisers (SGO’s) with the support of sports leaders and teachers with schools in Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland hoping to qualify for the Level 3 County Final on 16^th January at Temple Park Sports Centre in South Tyneside.

Yesterday (15th November, 2012) saw schools take part in the Newcastle School Games Level 2 Sportshall Athletics for year 7 & 8 at 'Centre for Sport' in the inner west of Newcastle.  Over 40 teams competed in what was one of the most exciting competitions we have run so far this academic year. The standard of competition was extremely high and each of the competitors demonstrated the ‘spirit of the games’ values we continually promote which are Respect, Teamwork, Passion, Determination, Self Belief and Honesty.

Gosforth Central Middle School managed to secure Gold medal finishes in each competition with Sacred Heart, St Cuthbert’s and Walbottle Campus finishing in Silver positions. Bronze medal finishes were achieved by Kenton with B teams form Gosforth Central Middle and Sacred Heart.

Our colleagues in PE Departments across the city had the following to say:-

James Barrett, Walbottle Campus said “The overall event has been a fun and enjoyable event. Well organsied and good quick turnarounds”.

David Parker, Benfield School said “Excellent event which was very well organised and ran very efficiently. All pupils seemed to be engaged and enjoying the activities and competitions”.

Paul Lumsden, Gosforth Junior Academy said “Great event and well organised. All pupils thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks”.

Chris Bland, All Saints College said “Well organised, fun for students. Variety of activities allows lots of students to get involved”.

John Bone, St Mary’s Catholic School said “Excellent event, great organisation and opportunity for all students to get involved. They have had a great time, thank you”.

Lisa Burdis, Sacred Heart High School said “Excellent event, well organised as always our girls had a great time, thanks”.

Chris Lee, Kenton School said “Fantastically well organised – as usual! Pupils had a fab time, thank you”.

Ian Beck, St Cuthbert’s said “Pupils thoroughly enjoyed it and well organised, thank you”

Newcastle School Games Yr 5/6 Sportshall Athletics - Thursday 8th November 2012

Newcastle School Games Yr 5/6 Sportshall Athletics

Thursday 8th October saw the Newcastle School Games 2nd Sportshall Primary Athletics event held at Centre for Sport in Newcastle.  Year 5 and 6 pupils took part in the following events:

·         Vertical jump

·         Long jump

·         Triple jump

·         Speed bounce

·         Balance test

·         Turbo javelin

·         Chest throw

·         Target throw

·         1 lap sprint

·         1 lap hurdles

·         2 lap sprint

·         4 lap run

Every school taking part was offered Level 1 support prior to the competition with a number of schools receiving an intra school competition for whole class activity to prepare and familiarise them with the format and rules. Some schools used the support it as an opportunity to let the pupils 'try out' to represent the school at the competition.

The competition saw 168 pupils take part.  School's in attendance were:

• St Cuthbert's (Kenton)
• Wingove Primary
• St Oswald's RC Primary
• St George's RC Primary
• Lemington Riverside Primary
• Hotspur Primary
• Cragside Primary
• Westerhope Primary
• Ravenswood Primary
• Gosforth Junior Academy
• Gosforth Central Middle School

In Gold place was Gosforth Central Middle, Cragside took Silver and Ravenswood were Bronze. 

Along with St Charles' who took Gold in the previous Sportshall Athletics event, Gosforth Central Middle qualify for the Level 3 Sportshall Athletics Final next term.  These two school's represent Newcastle and compete against the winning schools from Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland.

John Rutter, PE Co-ordinator from Wingrove Primary, commented, "Fantastic event, nice to see all the children with smiles on their faces, great sportsmanship shown by all!"