On Friday 7th February our 7 remaining A Team pupils competed in the Hoops4Health Finals at the Community Arena, Newcastle. It was wonderful to watch the North Stand of Sport Central steadily filling up with 50 members excited families, staff and friends from Stanhope. This was lovely to see our community, 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 first 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 Given taking a fine lay up effort. This was met by a fantastic roar from the Stanhope support! We then went on to have a number of near misses, before St. Bede’s scored. The team bounced back with a great shot scored by Riley, who’s celebration was a joy to see. With the scores tied the play was frantic from end to end. Sadly St. Bede’s managed to score to lead 2-1. Unfortunately this was the way the game ended. A devastating loss for our hard working team – they gave their all and I’m sure they will bounce back to winning ways soon.

The final took place at half-time in the Eagles game, in a front of a great crowd: St. Bede’s RC S/S took on Biddick Hall Juniors winning 1-0.

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 and January.

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 14 pupils from KS2 competed at Temple Park Leisure Centre in the South Tyneside H4H qualifiers.

Our 2 teams competed with wonderful team spirit against 28 other teams – with the aim of reaching the H4H Finals night on 7th February 2020.

The drive, focus and sportsmanship from our teams was second-to-none, it was even commented upon by the Eagles coaches. The children gave 100% to their team in each and every game.

Our team 1 topped their morning group winning all 5 games convincingly, while team 2 also finished the group stages in 1st place with 4 wins and 1 loss.

Team 1 advance to the knockout stages and faced Team 2 sadly. Despite taking an early lead Team 2 equalised and the game went to a penalty shoot out. Jayden stepped up and scored the winning basket.

Team 1 then advanced to play Mortimer 1 we won 8-0 to book our place at Finals Night!

Mr Rogers

Results:

Stanhope’s Team 1 and Team 2 qualified for final 16 teams.

                   Quarter Finals

Stanhope 1    2 – 2     Stanhope 2

(Won 1-0 on Penalties)

Stanhope Team 1 qualified for final 8 teams.

                     Semi Finals

Stanhope 1    8 – 0     Mortimer 1

On Friday 11th January 13 pupils from KS2 competed at Temple Park Leisure Centre in the South Tyneside H4H qualifiers.

Our 2 teams competed with wonderful team spirit against 26 other teams – with the aim of reaching the H4H Finals night on 18th January 2019.

The drive, focus and sportsmanship from our teams was second-to-none, it was even commented upon by the Eagles coaches. The children gave 100% to their team in each and every game.

Our team 1 topped their morning group winning all 5 games convincingly, while team 2 finished 3rd in their group with 2 wins and 1 draws.

Team 1 advance to the knockout stages and faced Holy Trinity 2. Despite taking an early lead we conceded 2 late baskets to lose 2-4 and miss out on a place on Finals Night next week.

Mr Rogers

Results:

Stanhope Team 1 qualified for final 8 teams.

                             Semi Finals

Stanhope 1    2 – 4     Holy Trinity 2

Today our Y5/6 Basketballers performed superbly, but had really hard lines to just miss out on qualifying for the knock out stages.

They were competing in the North East Regional Basketball Finals  at Sports Central in Newcastle. There were 43 teams participating and we were drawn in Group E. Here after a slow start against Seaburn Dene (Sunderland) – the eventual group winners, we sadly lost 8-0. After this we regained our composure and were ‘on fire’ scoring freely to win their next 2 matches 16-4 vs. St. Teresa’s (Newcastle) (Kara 1 basket, Sahib 1 basket, Aston 2 baskets, Shay 2 baskets & Maddison 2 baskets) and 14-0 vs. Wyndham Primary (Newcastle) (Maddison 1 basket, Sahib 3 baskets & Kara 3 baskets). After a short break we came back to play Preston Grange (North Tyneside) and in a very physical game they were highly unlucky to lose to 2 long range efforts 4-2 (Aston 1 basket). The team then battled to 2 wonderful victories 4-2 vs. Bede Primary (Gateshead) (Kara 2 baskets) and 10-4 vs. Battle Hill (North Tyneside) (Charlie 2 baskets & Kara, Shay and Sahib 1 basket each). Sadly this meant the team missed out on qualifying for the knock out round by just 1 point!

Kara – 7 baskets    Sahib – 5 baskets   Maddison – 3 baskets   Shay – 3 baskets

Aston – 3 baskets   Charlie – 2 baskets

I have to say both myself and Mrs Thompson were incredibly impressed by their positive attitudes, great sportsmanship and impeccable behaviour. In fact it was delightful to also hear this from other schools’ members of staff and passers by in the street, one lady loved how ‘unified’ we were. Keep it up!

Maddison Fontaine was also selected to be part of the NEW Talent ID U12 Newcastle Eagles Development Squad. Fantastic!

Well done to all 6 pupils – I’m as proud as always of all of you. Mr Rogers.

Team Selfie