All of your support is always appreciated and all money raised will contribute to attendance initiatives in school.
This morning the children in Year 4 took part in the South Tyneside Multi skills Festival.
The children have been practising for several weeks and were great at todays festival. They had a wonderful time and put all of their practise to good use!
As you are aware here at Stanhope Primary School we take pride in our excellent attendance record.
This time in the year always proves difficult to maintain this. To help improve our attendance we would like your child to participate in a four week Attendance Reward Initiative.
We have displayed a chart in your child’s class, which they will mark each day they are in school during the special four weeks.
If your child attends school every day from Monday 19th February 2018 to Friday 16th January 2018 he/she will be invited to a special performance.
We have invited Mr. Windbags (Magician) to come along and entertain the children for an hour in school on the afternoon of Wednesday 21st March 2018 followed by a DVD.
The show will take place in school and there will be members of staff present at all times. If you do not want your child to watch the show please inform your child’s class teacher.
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for your continued support.
For this half term’s after school club, the children will be taking part in aerobics on a Thursday evening. The children are put through their paces and have great fun.
Last week at Stanhope Primary School was Inventors Week. The children spent parts of their week looking at different inventors. They then used different methods to document all of the facts they had found. Some classes drew pictures, did a piece of writing, made quizzes and much more.
As each class chose a different inventor, on Friday’s assembly the children in each class got up and presented to the rest of the school which inventor they were looking into and what they had learnt during the week.
The child had lots of fun throughout the week and did a fantastic job of sharing their new knowledge with the other children.
Yesterday Year 6 began their new topic of ‘Film Making’ in Computing. Over the next few weeks, the children will be creating their own documentary based on the Ancient Egyptians.
In today’s session, the children worked in groups to plan their documentary. Once their plans were finalised, the children began to think about their interview script and what information will be required.
Keep posted to see how their documentaries develop.
During the Autumn Term there were 70 children who had 100% attendance. As a reward for this the children have spent the morning taking part in a ‘Bouncy Castle Party’. The children tackled their way through the inflatable assault course and then bounced with their friends on the bouncy castle.
The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and didn’t want the morning to end! Well done to all of the children with 100% attendance and keep checking the website for up to date attendance information and initiatives.
Thank you to Mrs Thompson for arranging the morning making it such a success for the children.
Please do not go to any expense to purchase bright clothing, non uniform will be fine. There is no charge for this special day and children will receive a fun lunch from the school cook. If any children stay for packed lunch, they are able to purchase a fun lunch for £2.10 – Please notify the school office.
On Friday 12th January our 7 remaining A Team pupils competed in the Hoops4Health Finals at Sports Central, Newcastle. It was wonderful to watch the North Stand of Sport Central steadily filling up with 50 excited families and friends from Stanhope. This was an good community effort, getting behind the team in a big finals event! Our players were really motivated to play in front of so much support, and give their very best.
The Stanhope team took to the court for the second semi-final against St. Bede’s RC S/S, the defending champions. We immediately started positively, as we passed the ball around confidently. A flowing team move saw us nearly take an early lead with Charlie Bates taking a fine long range effort. This was met by a fantastic roar from the Stanhope support! We sadly couldn’t build on this lead and after much pressure from St. Bede’s, we resisted conceding a basket and rounded out a 0-0 draw.
Therefore a shoot out was to take place, Charlie Bates and Brooke Urwin took our penalties, however they were unable to score and St. Bede’s netted 1/2 of their shots to progress to the final. A devastating way to lose out.
The final took place at half-time in the Eagles game, in a front of 3000 at Sport Central. St. Bede’s RC S/S took on East Boldon winning 8-0.
Well done to the skillful and dedicated players who had all trained outside with such commitment in the build up to the finals throughout a cold, icy and wet December. Finally, a big thank you to the outstanding school community, for your support on a memorable sporting occasion for our school. We will be back even better, more determined and stronger once again next year!
Today 24 children from Y3-6 competed at Temple Park Leisure Centre in the Tyne and Wear County Sportshall Athletics Finals.
Having qualified to represent South Tyneside when winning the previous round in October 2017 the children competed fiercely against very talented pupils from across the county.
The children have practiced diligently and with great heart for many months, both in school at break times and lunchtimes, as well as afterschool too. Their commitment has been second-to- none.
At the end of the event, when the scores of the pupils within each team were totalled, our Team were announced as 5th place finishers. Gosforth Central Middle School were crowned champions for the 3rd successive year.
There were some impressive performances, with great potential for future years demonstrated too –
Maddison Fontaine was 1st in the Speed Bounce with 55 repetitions.
Amie Cutter 3rd Speed Bounce 52 repetitions
Girls Over and Under Relay 1st 1:15.2
Girls Speed Bounce 1st 153 repetitions
Girls Standing Triple Jump 3rd 14.72m
Sahib Basra Chest Push 2nd 7.25m
Boys Speed Bounce 2nd 158 repetitions
Boys Over and Under Relay 3rd 1:14.4
Boys Javelin 2nd 45m
We will work hard to come back even stronger and succeed in the Summer School Games Finals.
Well done to all of the pupils involved. I am very proud of each and every one of you.
