St Mary's RC Primary School, Whickham

The school team have now been official crowned as the best catholic primary school football team, following their 3 game win at St. Marks last night.

The Saints secured their fourth trophy of the season with a 4-0 win over Our Lady of the Rosary, 3-0 victory over Star of the Sea and a excellent 3-1 win to clinch the cup in the final game against St.Mary's Sunderland.

Well done to all the boys.

More pics to follow......

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

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 won the 5-a-side St Thomas More cluster tournament. An unbeaten run of matches resulted in a clear victory for the boys. They completed against different schools and brought back the trophy for the 2^nd year running.

Their sporting behaviour and attitude was also acknowledged by winning the Fair Play award.

Year 4 represented our school in the St.Thomas More cluster Multi-skills challenge. They took part in 10 different running, throwing, catching, basketball, netball and football activities.

The team won, bringing home gold medals and a trophy for the school.

Well done to all the children on the team.

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.

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.

Robbie Lowthian and Emily Walters report on what happened at the KS1 Multiskills Challenge at St Thomas More. Over to you Emily and Robbie!

Well done to the children from Year 4 who recently took part in a Multi-Skills Challenge at St Thomas More.

The year 6 rugby team produced a fine display at Blaydon Rugby club in the TAG rugby tournment, finishing second in their group.

Please see the documents below about football activities during February half term.

Half Term Course

Saturday Morning Soccer

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

Well done to our netball teams who took part in the St Thomas More Cluster Netball Tournament.

Well done to our Tag Rugby Team.

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

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.

Congratulations to the girls and boys from Year 4 for their performance in the striking and fielding event at St Thomas More School on Tuesday 19th May. One team won first place for the third year running and the other team came in 2nd place.

Congatulations to our basketball team who won the trophy.

On Thursday the 2nd of April, some children from our school represented Dunston Pool in Gateshead Civic Gala (because of our wonderful performance at the previous gala) and enjoyed it very much!

St Mary's has been recognised as providing "Exceptional delivery within the PE and Sport Strategy" for 2008.

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

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.

Dates and final arrangements for December 2008

Well done to our boys football team who played their first matches of the season. We travelled to Birtley to play three matches. We came second in our group which is fantastic for our first try at the Chester Le Street league.

Well done to our fantastic girls football team who played the first round of their Catholic Cup last week. They travelled to St Patricks Primary in Consett and won their group.

Year 3 represented Gateshead in the the finals of the Yr 3 Tennis Challenge at the Puma Centre in Sunderland.

St Mary's Swimming Team walked away with all of the honours at the Gateshead Inner West Swimming Gala held at Felling Pool on Tuesday 4th March.

On Saturday 9th February selected children from St Mary's travelled to Lord Lawson of Beamish School in Birtley to take part in the Birtley Athletics Junior Challenge 2008.

Children in Year 3 have been very busing learning about Rocks and Weather around the World.

8 pupils from year 4 took part in the St Thomas More mulit-skills competition on Wednesday 30th January. They all had an excellent time and although they all performed excellently we came a very good third on the night. Well done you 8!!!!

Congratulations to our netball teams.

They did very well.
B team - Emma Spoor, Joshua Corrigan, Amber Gill, Lauren Porteous, Hannah McAloone and their captain, Marie Stanley.
A team - Christine Bertie, Jordan Symonds, Madeline Emptage, Rachel Grant and their captain, Elly Mains
The A team came 1st and the B team came 3rd.

Our first games in the Catholic Cup this year proved to be very successful. We travelled to St Mary's in Blackhill, Consett to play 3 games with the winner going through. We won all 3 games (3-0, 1-0 and 3-1) playing some good football along the way. We were very pleased not only to have scored lots of goals, but to have only let one goal in all night. Adam Hopkinson and Matthew Williams scored 3 goals each, and congratulations goes to Rachel Grant for being the first girl to score for St Mary's first team. We look forward to the next round of the competition.

Our school team started the league campaign on Tuesday 2nd October at Fellside School. We finished our group second which was a good effort against tougher teams than we have played so far. We won our first game 1-0 against Swalwell with Adam Hopkinson scoring the goal. Our second game finished 0-0 against Lobley Hill with some fine goalkeeping from Josh Murdy. Our third game was a 1-0 defeat to Front Street who topped the group.

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Great afternoon!
Great weather!
we were very lucky.
It was a very competitive but friendly event with some excellent performances and results.
In the end the BLUES were the winners with the Greens coming a very close second.

Congratulations to the swimming team who came 2nd overall in the Civic Swimming Gala at Felling Pool on 27th March.

Congratulations to the team of boys and girls from Year 3 who competed in this competition at St Thomas More School on 24th January 2007