St Mary's RC Primary School, Whickham

The football team has began the season in an impressive style. They have already secured their place in the next round of the Bishop's Cup after a draw and a victory at St.Mary's Blackhill, Consett.

They followed this up with a fantastic display at Lumley on Thursday night, securing three wins out of three.

Well done to : Harry, Jack, Nikhil, Luke, Josh, Matthew, Sam, Dylan and Daniel.

Year 5 and Reception Class have ended their first year as 'Buddies' in style, enjoying a fun-filled, action-packed excursion to the adventure playground site. All children (and adults) involved in the trip had a wonderful day out - especially as the rain held off until after the classes safely back at School! Throughout the day, the groups had the opportunity to take part in such activities as shelter building, a treasure hunt and a toating marshmallows and hotdogs on an open fire.

Here are some photos to show the children in action.

On the 24th of June 2011, Year 5 began their much anticipated 4 day residential to Blaithwaite House, Cumbria.
Leaving Mr. Wheatley to contend with the latest ash cloud from Eyjafjallajökull (translation - 'a very disruptive Icelandic volcano'), the excited group waved goodbye to friends and family and set off on a cross-country adventure... 

The football team secured another trophy last night after winning the C.B Watson cup for the second consecutive year.

The year 6 team won all their three games, 7-0, 4-0 and 1-0. They saw off tough competition from Hetton, St Cuthberts and Bullion Lane.

This is their third trophy of the season and gives them confidence as they look forward to next weeks Bishop's Cup final at St. Mark's Westerhope.

The boys football team were crowned league champions last night, following the final session of the season.

The team had played close to 27 games, winning 25 and only losing 2 matches. Mr Baker (junior) commmented: "In all the years the league has been going, I don't think a team has won so convincingly."

The season however, is not over yet! On Monday the team will travel to Holy Cross, Wallsend for the semi-final of the Bishop's Cup and then Thursday night for the Watson Cup.

Good luck

Well it's been a busy old term in Year 5 so far. We've been studying all things Greek in History and that has spilled over in to our other subjects, leading to some fruitful Literacy work on Myths and Legends, with some particularly successful Fables being written, inspired by the Greek author Aesop. As you can see from the pictures, we also turned our hands to a little pottery making. The children designed and created their own pot, inspired by examples of Ancient Greek pottery studied in class and are able to explain what use their pot may have had in an Ancient Greek household.

For more photos, follow the link.

The Year 5 team of 8 boys and 8 girls took part in a St.Thomas More cluster sportshall athletics. It involved events of sprinting, longer running and hurdles in the track. For the field events - throwing, long jump and vertical high jump.

The team came in 1^st position, bringing the trophy back for the second year running.

The Year 6  team won the St. Thomas More cluster. They went on to represent the cluster at the Gateshead finals, where they won their group, however, they were narrowly defeated in the final.

Congratulations to our newly confirmed children in Year 5 and Year 6.

Bishop Seamus Cunningham and Fr Humble

Well, what a year we've had in Year 5! I think we all feel utterly shattered after all the hard work (& play!) of the past 11 months.

The year 5/6 girls football team secured a last game win to retain the Northern Cross sponsored Bishop's Cup.

The year 5/6 football team won the Chester-le-street league.

Well done to the Year 5 team for winning gold medals at the St Thomas More Cluster Sportshall Athletics.

Year 5 have been experimenting with sound effects and different ways of using our voices, in order to enhance the performance of a poem, inspired by "The magic of the Brain" by Jenny Joseph.

Well done to our basketball teams who took part in the Year 5 & 6 tournament at St Thomas More.

Year 5 have been working really hard on their Film Narrative unit of work after being inspired by Aidan Gibbons' short film, "The Piano".

KS2 children were invited to Whickham Library to see the author, Bob Hartman.

The school football teams have enjoyed a winning start to the season for both the girls and the boys.

Well, what a half term we've had in Year 5! The days and weeks have raced by and all our new class members (myself included!) have settled in really well.

Year 5 have reflected on an exciting year and now they are looking forward to the challenges of Year 6.

Rhiannon McDonald, Anya Sordy, James Stephenson and Daniel Campion took part in a robotics competition organised by the CLC.

5 Girls from Years 5 and 6 took part in the 5 A Side competition at St Thomas More.

Wow!

St Mary's RC Primary School in Whickham have gone down in history. We are the first school in history to do the double in the Catholic cup comeptitions.

Year 5 had a fantastic residential to Blaithwaite.

Year 5 enjoyed a trip to the CLC to explore creating jingles for a radio station.

We are proud to present an exhibition of art painted by the pupils of St Mary's Primary School.

MONDAY 18th and TUESDAY19th MAY

Viewing sessions from 2.45pm to 6pm, Monday( last admission 5.30pm)
and 8.45am to 9.30pm Tuesday
50p entrance fee which will include refreshments and a free raffle.
Please use the main entrance.

Congatulations to our basketball team who won the trophy.

A fantastic effort was made by KS2 on Wednesday 25th March, spurred on of course by Nora and Frank!

On the 4th of March we went to Felling to compete in the West Gateshead Local Swimming Gala.
When we got there we were all extremely excited however, we were also very nervous.
We were all their by 5:15 wearing our school tracksuits and when we all marched round the pool with our banner, on the way we spotted our future medals.

Year 5 mixed basketball team did not concede one basket on their way to win the tournament at Whickham High school.

Year 5 took part in the MetroCentre maths trail, organised by Dr Maths himself. The children explored maths activities that could be completed in the mall.

Children from Years 2,3,4,5 and 6 had a very exciting Monday afternoon at Gateshead CLC!

Our year 5 & 6 boys 5 a side team played on Wednesday 15th January at St Thomas More school. They played well and came 2nd in their group, 3rd overall and recieved medals. Well done boys.

Year 5 have been busy building Lego models.

Mr Sutcliffe teaches in Year 5

Year 5 children worked so hard to create some fantastic designs using hard boiled eggs.

In Year 5 we have been very busy. We are together as a whole class now and have started all new topics for the new term. 6 lucky pupils have taken part in FLS and are enjoying it very much.

It is coming to the end of the school year in Y5, but we are not too sad as we have lots of exciting activities still to do. We have been to Whicham Thorns Activity Centre which was great fun. We tried problem solving, archery, tubing (which you can see in the photo), orienteering and climbing. We had a brilliant day, and thankfully the rain held off until home time.

We also have our picnic in the park with our buddies coming up, and we have sports day this week! We are practising hard for our Robin Hood production which is alo next week.

In class we still have work to do so we are prepared for Y6. We have been continuing our Maths and English work as well as finishing off Life Cycles in Science, and Rivers in Geogrpahy.

Last week we also took part in a lovely service at the church to celebrate our Confirmation. The children looked so smart and all of the parents and staff were so proud of the children - well done!!

Once again Dr Maths organised a Maths Trail in Newcastle. This year it was along the Quayside and some of the children from KS2 accompanied by parent helpers had to follow the trail and solve the puzzles. This event is to show the chldren that maths is important in our everyday lives, not just in lessons at school.

Click here to read some of the thoughts about the trail from children in Year 3 and Year 4.

Well yet again this has been a really busy year for Year 5. We have welcomed 3 new class members, Anna, Ben and Charlton and they have settled in really well, so much so that we cant's imagine life without them now.
During this last term we have also had the benefit of Miss Butler and she has beeen great. We especially like the Aztec masks and the Assembly that we prepared with Year 6 and Miss Richardson.