Year 8 students took part in their Inter-House Cricket Competition on Thursday in the final day of a 3 day house tournament. Each house again split into 2 teams with A teams playing Softball Cricket and B teams playing Diamond Cricket. (more…)
Year 9 students took part in their Inter-House Cricket Competition on Tuesday. Each house split into 2 teams with A teams playing Softball Cricket and B teams playing Diamond Cricket. (more…)
St Mary’s Year 8 girls cricket team represented the school at the Sainsbury’s School Games Level 3 finals on Thursday, having qualified as the top team from the Newcastle area. They faced off against teams from Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland. (more…)
St Mary’s has had an extremely successful athletics season this year, with many school records broken within PE lessons and at competitions. I was delighted with the popularity of athletics club and the interest shown in representing the school at Gateshead Stadium in the city championships this year. (more…)
43 students from the Year 8 and 9 Football and Netball team represented St Mary’s in our Sport Tour to Paris, in May. Students arrived to Paris on Monday evening, settling down ready for the first day of sport. Students had the opportunity to visit the local shopping centre on the first evening. (more…)
St Mary’s Year 10 Golf Team took part in the Sainbury’s School Games Golf Xtme competition at Benfield school on Wednesday. St Mary’s team included Max Ferriday, Sam Ashcroft, Sam McDonald, Joby Tennant, Joe Stonor and Euan James. The boys were excellent in the competition, with one of the main highlights being Max Ferriday – who played a brilliant hole to make a 2, the lowest score recorded by any student on the day! St Mary’s played some fantastic golf and won the competition by a strong margin. The students attitude and effort was outstanding during the competition, showing the correct etiquette and behaviour on the course at all times. I look forward to taking them through to the County Finals which will be played in early July.
Mr Hook
St Mary’s Year 8&9 boys rugby teams took part in the RFU ‘Day of Rugby’ in Manchester today. 25 students represented the school in a series of 7’s fixtures against a variety of different schools from across the North of England. The Year 8 team had a brilliant day, winning 4 and drawing 1 from their 5 games, scoring 14 tries while only conceding 5. The rucking and tackling was excellent, but the ball carrying and support play when attacking was the highlight of the day. Damon Baghi, Alex Warton and Ben Jubb all carried the ball well to score several tries each.
Nineteen Year 8 and 9 students took part in the ECB Cricket Activators course today. The course is the first step on the ladder towards becoming qualified ECB coaches, and develops leadership and organisational skills with a view to students leading and supporting upcoming festivals and house competitions. Dan Humble from the Northumbria Cricket Board visited school to run the course, where the students were given the task of leading and organising a series of different small sided games and officiating those games. The group worked hard throughout the day and were enthusiastic leaders of their own games. Each of the Activators must now arrange to do 10 hours of volunteer work to complete their qualification, and they will be supporting members of the PE department in cricket clubs and house competitions to accomplish this over the upcoming months.
Mr Hook
St Mary’s Year 8 and 10 boys tennis teams took part in a Newcastle league fixture against Kings Priory tonight. The Year 10 team included Matthew Mernin, Rory Restall, Aidan Byrne and Patrick Caragay. (more…)
