South Tyneside Cross Country Finals 2023-24

1st October 2023A Rogers
On Friday 28 pupils from KS2 competed at Temple Park Leisure Centre in the South Tyneside Cross Country Finals.
Each child completed in their respective year group events, comprising of between 40 and 70 children from various schools in the borough.
All of our children, performed very well, working hard and demonstrating great determination right until the finishing line of their respective races.
Outstanding performers were:
Ava (Y4) storming to GOLD for the second consecutive year. She showed her fanstatic abilities, leading from the start and winning by a massive margin.
Other Top 10 finishers included:
Ryan (Y4) 5th, Zhalya (Y6) 7th, Emilia (Y3) 7th & Yanna (Y4) 8th.
We will now continue to work hard; building upon our endurance and resilience in order to get back to winning ways. Every mile counts…🎖😁

Harvest Festival

27th September 2023S Office
Harvest Festival 🦔🐿🐾🍂🍁🌾
As it approaches harvest time, we would once again like to help those who are less fortunate. We will be having our annual food bank, collecting food for Living Waters.
Please check your cupboards for any non perishable items to donate to school. This includes:
🦔Milk (UHT)
🍁Sugar
🐿Fruit Juice (Long life)
🍂Cereal
🦔Pasta
🍁Pasta Sause
🐿Tinned Sponge Pudding
🍂Tinned Tomatoes
🦔Tinned Vegetables
🍁Tinned Soup
🐿Tinned rice pudding
🍂Tea bags / instant coffee
🦔Instant mash potato
🍁Rice
🐿Tinned meat/fish
🍂Jam
🦔Biscuits / snack bars
We will also accept any toiletries.
Anything that parents/carers are able to donate will be much appreciated by those in need.
Please bring any items to the school office.
Thank you!!
🍂🍁🍄🌾🐿🦡🦔🐾
We will start receiving collections from Monday 2nd October 2023.

E-Safety Workshop

22nd September 2023S Office
E-Safety Parent/Carer Workshop
We always want to make sure all our children know how to keep themselves safe when they are on the internet and their devices.
Do you know how to set parental controls? Are you aware of the latest Apps? Are you up to date and aware of the latest online issues?
Come along and find out more, chat to experienced OpenZone staff and other parents.
We would like to invite you to a Coffee Morning on Friday 6th October 2023 in our school hall. You will have the opportunity to talk to the Openzone staff about how you can keep your child safe when they are outside of school.
It will be an opportunity to listen to latest news, information and risks that your child could be exposed to.
There will be refreshments available for you to purchase on the morning and we will host a raffle that will be drawn on that morning too.
We hope to see you, if you can attend, please contact the school office.
Those who have a Parent Pay account can also confirm their attendance on there.
The workshop will take place at 8.30am – 9.30am. Parents/Carers are able to bring their children for the first 30 minutes.

Upcoming Dates

8th September 2023S Office

Dear Parents/carers

Please find below events that are happening over this term and other important dates for your diary:

INSET/Bank Holiday

School will be CLOSED on:

 

Friday 26th January 2024 – INSET

Monday 6th May 2024 – Bank Holiday

Friday 24th May 2024 – INSET

Friday 14th June 2024 – INSET

 

Thursday 14th September 2023 – Reception Phonics Talk – 9.00am

Friday 15th September 2023 – Individual Photographs

Thursday 21st September 2023 – Year 6 visit to Open Zone

Wednesday 4th October 2023 – Flu Vaccinations Reception – Year 6

Friday 6th October 2023 – E-Safety Coffee Morning for parents 8.30am-9.30am

Monday 9th October 2023 – Nursery Parent Interviews

Tuesday 10th October 2023 – Reception – Year 6 Parent Interviews (1.30pm Start)

Tuesday 10th October 2023 – World Mental Health Day – Wear Yellow

Wednesday 11th October 2023 – Reception – Year 6 Parent Interviews (1.30pm Start)

Wednesday 11th October 2023– Year 6 visit RAP

Friday 27th October 2023 – Halloween Dress up Day

Friday 27th October 2023 – School Closes for Half Term

Monday 6th November 2023 – School reopens

Thursday 9th November 2023 – Year 4 visit to Open Zone

Monday 13th November 2023 – Attend to Achieve Week

Monday 13th November 2023 – Bikeability Year 4

Friday 17th November 2023 – Children in Need Day – Non Uniform Day, all monies raised to the CIN Charity

Wednesday 29th November 2023 – Year 3 visit to Open Zone

Friday 8th December 2023 – Christmas Dinner in school

Productions

Due to space, only TWO parents/Carers/Guardians per family are invited to a production and numbers may have to be capped. We ask that parents/carers or guardians DO post any photographs taken, onto their personal social media pages. We also ask that everyone attending remains SEATED throughout the duration of the performance. Any young children who become upset, it would be appreciated if they can be taken out of hall to avoid disruption to the performing children.

Tuesday 12th December 2023 – Nursery Production (AM and PM)

Wednesday 13th December 2023 –  Reception Production (AM only)

Thursday 14th December 2023 – Key Stage 2 Production (AM only)

Friday 15th December 2023 – Key Stage 1 Production (AM only)

As usual, there will be our Christmas Café, which will be open from 9.00am during production week. The productions themselves will begin at 10am.

Christmas Parties

Tuesday 19th December 2023 – Reception Party

Wednesday 20th December 2023 – Year 1 to Year 6 parties

Thursday 21st December 2023 – Nursery Party (AM and PM)

PLEASE NOTE – CHILDREN MUST COME TO SCHOOL ON MORNING OF THEIR PARTY, IN THEIR PARTY CLOTHES AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE COLLECTED AT LUNCHTIME.

 

Friday 22nd December 2023 – Christmas Jumper Day – Christmas clothing or non-uniform

Friday 22nd December 2023 – School closes for the Christmas Holidays

Monday 8th January 2024 – School reopens

As always, more information will be given to individual events, prior to them taking place.

DODGEBALL NATIONAL FINALS 2023

12th July 2023A Rogers
🟡🟢DODGEBALL NATIONAL FINALS 2023🟢🟡
Today our tremendous ten dodgeballers competed in the National Finals in Stoke. They played tremendously well to reach this stage of the competition for the second consecutive time. We were in Group 3 and won 2 of our matches to advance to the Quarter Finals (final 8 teams in Great Britain)!
Here unfortunately we came up against a very tactically astute Cloverlea team who beat us 9-3.
Congratulations to the team and all of their time and effort since September when the very first rounds of the event began.
A special thanks to those Year 6 pupils whose last event in the Stanhope colours was a big one – you will be missed. 🤾🏼‍♂️🤾‍♀️🤾🏽‍♂️🤾🏽‍♀️😄👍
Mr Rogers

Gold School Games Mark Award 22-23

7th July 2023A Rogers
We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games GOLD Mark Award for the 2022/23 academic year, our 4th in total!
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
Our sporting achievements this year include Winning numerous South Tyneside Finals, Tyne & Wear County Finals and even reaching our second National Dodgeball Finals!!
With many of our young people competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
We look forward to applying once again in 2024!
Mr Rogers 😀⚽️🏀🎾🏑🏏🎽⛹️‍♀️🤾🤸🏆🥇🥈🥉🏆