Gateshead/Whickham School Sports Partnership

The Newsletter for the Cardinal Hume Cluster is now available.

The Year 1 Play Day held at Cardinal Hume consists of 10 multi-skills activities which are undertaken by all of the 110 pupils attending.

The Top Link Football Festival was held for Girls and Boys at Birtley St Joseph's Junior School on 19th June 2008. 5 primary schools participated making a total of 5 boys teams and 4 girls teams competing in a round-robin tournament.

3 Year 9 Girls from Cardinal Hume Catholic School attended an activities day to learn how to organise activities clubs for the girls in their year group.
Back in school they asked the girls what activities they would be interested in participating in then set to and organised coaches and publicity for 8 weekly clubs.
Full credit to the girls for all their hard work which was enjoyed by all who participated.

The year 3/4 Striking & Fielding Challenge took place at Cardinal Hume School on Wed 21st May 2008.

The Spring Term Newsletter for the Cardinal Hume Cluster is now available.

A new festival for Year 2's was held at Cardinal Hume School on Wednesday 26th March and 'virtual' competitions were also held at 2 other primaries.

The final of the Primary Sportshall Athletics was held at Gateshead Stadium on Thursday March 6th. The Cardinal Hume Cluster team was selected from pupils who took part in the cluster event. These were, Kate Rafferty, Hannah McDougal, Maya Imiotek, Sarah Corrigan, Rhianna, Taylor Cole, Sam Skelton and Adam Neil from Birtley St Joseph's Junior School, Georgia Crabtree, Jack Munro and Christopher Gibson from St Oswald's Primary, Mollie Birmingham and Ethan Langford from St Peter's Primary, Jack Dilton, William Todd and Alex It from St John the Baptist's Primary School.
All were a credit to their schools both for their performances and their behaviour.
The Cardinal Hume Cluster finished in 6th place.

Having won the Gateshead Cross Country Competition, Birtley St Joseph's girls completed the double by winning the Chester-le-Street Primary Schools Cross Country Championship. The event was held over three Saturday mornings where the girls scores totalled 19,20 and 14 points giving them a total of 53 points. This was 21 points ahead of the nearest school. Once again the star performers were Sarah Corrigan, Rhyanna Douglas and Kate Rafferty

An afternoon of Sportshall Athletics took place at Cardinal Hume Catholic School on Wed 13th February.

The Year 4 Multi Skills Festival was held at Cardinal Hume School om Wednesday 30th Jan. 2008.

Please read the December 2007 Newsletter for the cardinal Hume Cluster

Birtley St. Joseph's Junior School girls' team had tremendous success in the Gateshead Cross Country.

Read cardinal Hume Family Plan

End of Project Report 2004-2007 for St. Edmund Campion School

This year it was decided to hold a girls' 6-a-side football tournament for Top Link.

The Birtley boys 7-a-side football team are confirmed as the North of England Champions.

This term our primary schools have been very active with 5 different activties taking place in a short term.

The best competitors from the Sportshall Athletics festival held at St Edmund Campion School on the 13th February were selected to form a team to represent the cluster at the finals held at Gateshead Stadium on 1st March 2007.
The pupils came from Birtley St. Joseph's, St. Anne's and St. Oswald's, all tried hard in their various events and were a credit to their various schools. Thanks to all who made the event possible.

3 teams from cluster primary schools competed against each other in the sportshall athletics held at St. Edmund Campion School on Tuesday 13th February.

3 primary schools competed against each other in the Multi Skills Challenge held at St. Edmund Campion School on 6th February 2007.

The girls from Birtley St. Joseph's Junior School competed in the final of the Durham County ESFA final against 2 other schools in their section.
They beat St. Teresa's 2-1, drew 1-1 against St Charles then were unfortunately beaten 3-6 by Howletch to come runners up in their section.
Howletch then went on to win.
Congratulations to all who took part for their skill, hard work, determination and fair play.

St Edmund Campion School hosted 2 cluster festivals this term in High 5 and Year 2 tennis. The basketball tournament was unfortunately cancelled as only St. Anne's entered. However they did take their 2 teams to the Lord Lawson cluster tournament which they went on to win. Congratulations to them!
The High 5 Netball tournament was fiercely contested by St Peter's and St John's and as this ended in a draw a replay was arranged which St Peter's went on to win and then represented our cluster in the final where they did very well.
Only St Peter's came to play in the year 2 Tennis Festival so they played each other at singles. All received certificates and chocolate bars. This was a disappointing entry as the festival was run at the PLT's request. Thank you St Peter's.

Carl Magnay, a former pupil of Birtley St. Joseph's School beat 30,000 other hopefuls to win the football competition 'Football I Can 2' on Sky TV. As a result, Carl will receive a football contract with CHELSEA F.C..
WHAT AN ACHIEVEMENT!

Birtley St. Joseph's win the Eden Colliery Cup.
Birtley St. Joseph's Junior School got through to the final of the Eden Colliery Cup in football which was played recently. This tournament is open only to schools who have less than 100 pupils. The final was played at Red Rose Primary School in Chester-le-Street and the pupils of St. Joseph's pulled out all the stops to win the cup. They will now represent Durham County in the North of England Championship next year. Well done to all the players for this fantastic achievement.

The St Edmund Campion Cluster decided to hold a tennis tournament for the year 2's after they had been having coaching. The tournament was arranged for 4th December but only St Peter's managed to bring a team.
The 3 boys and 3 girls played each other in a round robin with one boy winning overall. It was nice to see some of the skills being developed and used well.
All went away with a certificate and a bar of chocolate and all semed to enjoy the games.

Two primary schools entered the High 5 Netball Tournament held at St. Edmund Campion School on 10th October 2006.

Here are the dates of the festivals/tournaments (2006/7) for the St Edmund Campion Cluster.
Other cluster schools please feel free to enter any of them if the date in your cluster is not convenient for you.
Contact Pam Pow at St Edmund Campion School or e mail pam_pow@hotmail.com.

The Top Link girls 7-a-side tournament took place on the St. Edmund Campion School field on 15th June on a pleasant afternoon.
The whole event was organised by 4 pupils from year 10 who went on the TOP Link training day at Teeside University. They then co-opted others from their year group to help in various roles to make a successful tournament.

This has been a busy term for the St. Edmund Campion School Cluster with so much going on.
There have been 4 festivals/tournaments which have been accessed by many of our primary schools and so involving a vast number of children in enjoyable challenges across both KS1 and 2.
Base clubs have also been running in 7 of our schools.

The year 4 Striking and Fielding Challenge was held at St. Edmund Campion School on the 2nd May 2006. St. Oswald's Primary Schol brought up all of the year 4's for an afternoon of fun.

This has been a busy term for the partnership with so many things going on.
Festivals.
Equipment.
Training
Dates for Diary

The Year 4 Multi Skills Challenge was held at St. Edmund Campion School on Tuesday 21st March 2006.
Seven teams entered representing six primary shools and attempted to score as many points as possible from 10 events.

Tournaments
Training
Positive feedback
Community Sports Leaders in schools
Dates for your diary

The Year 5/6 cluster basketball tournament was held at St. Edmund Campion School on 15th Nov. 2005.

21 pupils from St. Peter's, St. John the Baptist's and St. Joseph's Gateshead all took part in the High 5 Netball Tournament held at St. Edmund Campion School on 11th Oct. 2005.
All participants played hard but fair and it was a close contest with St. Peter's managing to just win the tournament on the number of games won whilst St. John the Baptist's scored the most goals.
The Fair Play award went to St. Joseph's Gateshead.
Thanks to all who participated for an enjoyable tournament and also to the staff who brought the teams and umpired the games.

The Year 4 Tennis Tournament was held for cluster schools at St. Edmund Campion School on Tuesday 14th June.

The event was held playing short tennis in the school sportshall.

Birtley St. Joseph's Football Festival was held for the St. Edmund Campion School Cluster on their playing field in Birtley on Thursday 9th June.
Seperate boys and girls teams competed against each other in a 7-a-side festival.

The KS1 Playday was held at St. Edmund Campion School on 11th May on a rare lovely day.
5 primary schools, (making a total of 50 pupils) came to participate in a fun packed, active afternoon.

Results of the cluster 5-a-side football tournament.

Out of School Hours Clubs.

Top Dance Training

Links with Birtley Town Football Club and a 7-a-side football tournament to be run by Birtley St. Joseph's Junior School.

A common form of assessment decided on.