Gateshead/Whickham School Sports Partnership

The year 7 Town Football Team began their matches this season with a 2-2 draw at Wakefield. After dominating the first twenty minutes, it was a big surprise that they weren't lots of goals ahead.
In the end, Gateshead's goals came from Connor Halpin (Heworth Grange) and a bullet of a freekick from Luke Watson (Ryton).
An excellent result considering the squad was depleated by Academy matches, holidays and illness.

The latest result up until the 9th June can be found by clicking the link.

Dame Kelly Holmes (the double Olympic Gold Champion 8oom, 1500m at the Athens Olympics in2004) has taken on the role of National School Sport Champion, in an attempt to get more children, young people involved in physical education and school sport.

Her work will be co-ordinated by the Youth Sport Trust, the Government funded body working to improve the quality and quantity of physical education and sport available to school age children inside and outside the curriculum.

She will also support the DfES/BSKYBs Living for Sport project, which targets teenagers dropping out of school and help in a campaign run by Norwich Union aimed at persuading more girls to take up and maintain sporting activity.

Kelly will visit schools across the country to give added momentum to the Government’s School Sport Strategy and in the lead up to the London Olympics in 2012.

For more information:-

www.teachernet.gov.uk/pe
www.youthsporttrust.org/page/pesscl
www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/subjects/pe/nationalstrategy

The Year 6 Town Teams have been busy with mixed bag of results in the 11-a-side matches played since the turn of the year. Up until last weekend, when both the first team and the reserves had matches called off at North Tyneside, no Saturdays had been lost to the weather this year.

Last Saturday, the Primary Town team finished runners up in the Durham County Schools FA five-a-side tournament held at Consett.

The squad comprised of seven players from seven different Primary schools from the East side of the borough. They were:
Sean McCormick (Harlow Green), Daniel DeCristofarno (The Drive), Levi Oman (Glynwood), Connor Brierley (Dunston Riverside), Daniel Feetham (Colegate), Matthew Fisher [captain] (St. Aidans) & Leon Watson (Corpus Christi).

They played four matches not losing any and only conceeding three goals.
Their scores were-

v. Chester-le-Street won 3-0 (Leon Watson 3)
v. Darlington drew 2-2 (Matthew Fisher & Daniel Feetham)
v. Derwentside drew 0-0
v. South Tynesde won 3-1 (Matthew Fisher 2 & Leon Watson)

Derwentside were the eventual winners.

Well done to all that took part.

The Gateshead East Primary School Town Team ended their match drought with a match at Peterlee on Saturday.
Unfortunately after all the weeks off, the squad were missing six regular players mainly due to illness. However this did not stop them as they recorded an excellent 4-3 win against good oppostion.

Debutant, Leon Watson (Corpus Christi RC) scored twice and had a hand in the other two which were scored by Jack Doherty (Oakfield) and Levi Oman (Glynwood).

A very good battling performance.

Hopefully one of these days someone in the Borough will come up with an indoor 11-a-side pitch !!!!

The Town East Primary Schools team have fallen foul to the weather over the last four weeks. Away matches at South Tyneside, Chester-le-Street & Darlington as well as a home match against Chester-le-Street have all been postponed. In addition to this, a reserve match against Hartlepool was also called off.
We've already had more postponements than all of last season put together with this been the first time ever all matches in November being lost.

The Town Team play Bishop Auckland on Saturday (hopefully) at Willington.

The Association Year 5 football group stages have recently been held. Kelvin Grove, Brighton Avenue, South Street, Kells Lane & Roman Road have all made the final. This is a totally differennt set of schools to the ones who made the final last year. Results on the page.

The tournament was also a great example of school / club links as it was kindly hosted by Leam Rangers Junior Football Club.

Felling Gateshead East Schools Representative Town Team's have started playing friendly matches at both year 6 & 7 with only one defeat over six matches.

The Year 6 first team squad have played three matches so far winning all of them against South Tyneside 8-2, Peterlee 6-4 and South Northumberland 5-1.

The Year 6 reserves played really well against the South Tyneside first team but unluckily lost 4-2. They then beat South Northumberland 'B' 5-3.

In an exciting match, the Year 7 squad also beat South Northumberland 4-2 with goals from Ben Faetz (2), Ben Hutchinson & Ian Tweddell.

At this point in time, the year 6 top goalscorers are Connor Brierley (Dunston Riverside) 6, Jack Doherty (Oakfield) 4, Lee Clay (Glynwood) 3, Matthew Fisher (St. Aidans) 3 & Levi Oman (Glynwood) 3.

Hull ‘A’ 1 Felling Gateshead East ‘A’ 1 (Jack Doherty)

Hull ‘A’ 2 Felling Gateshead East ‘B’ 0

Squads-

‘A’ Daniel Gray (Roman Road), Gregg Wallace (Kells Lane), Craig McGill (Oakfield), Adam Motteshead [capt] (Oakfield), Michael Brown (St. Albans), Jack Doherty (Oakfield), Lewis Gibbons (Kelvin Grove), Connor Brierley (Dunston Riverside), Levi Oman (Glynwood), Mattthew Fisher (St. Aidans) & Daniel Young (Glynwood).

‘B’ Daniel Gray (Roman Road), Gregg Wallace (Kells Lane), Daniel Feetham (Colegate), David Daley (Glynwood), Thomas Snowdon (St. Johns), Liam Willis (St. Johns), Luke Davies (Oakfield), Jordan Lee (Harlow Green), Cameron Hutchinson (Harlow Green), Matt Atkinson (The Drive) & Jonathan Graham (Brandling).

Some of the year 5 Representative squad played in the County Year 5 competition at Burnhope Primary School on Saturday.

The format of the competition saw two teams being entered by five Associations with the exception of Chester-le-Street who had one team and Derwentside who had three.

All Association's points were then added together to find the winner.

It is really pleasing to report that Felling Gateshead East won overall. A massive achievement and down to the squad's hard work over the last few months.

The squad is now looking forward to an away day next week when they travel away to play Hull.