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On Wednesday the team worked with SMILE Through Sport to deliver the PMLD Personal Best Challenge day, which was a new event in the 2019/2020 calendar. The event was aimed at young people with limited movement and/or those with complex and profound learning disabilities. The idea was for young people to come along and participate in…

It was the start of key stage 3 badminton leagues on Tuesday & Wednesday evening this week.  Players from Churchill, George Stephenson, Longbenton & St Thomas More arrived eagerly to the courts at Churchill to take part in the beginning of their league. In the boys competition there are 5 teams, who on Tuesday evening,…

We kicked off the sportshall athletics season on Tuesday at Marden Bridge Middle School for the first of 8 year 5/6 competitions running throughout October and November. These are team competitions and boys & girls compete in track & field events which they are selected for by their teachers. Each result achieved equates to a…

The launch of this year’s Talented Athlete Academy took place at the Langdale Centre on Monday evening for students at schools across North Tyneside. The initative, now it’s third year has been developed by Tyne Met College, in partenership with the North Tyneside PE & School Sport Team & The Talented Athletes Scholarship Scheme (TASS). The…

It was the turn of the U16 boys to take to the tables at Churchill last week for the first session of their central venue league. There were 8 teams in attendance & each of them played in 4 matches. Within a team there are 4 players, ranked 1-4 and they each play against their…

Over 90 young people in years 3, 4, 5 & 6 joined the team at the Evolution Football Centre for the boys Dogdeball & girls Football Central Venue leagues (CVLs) on Tuesday evening. The PE team believe that the secondary CVL format that has been running for the last few years has worked so successfully,…

At the end of last week the team held the first of 8 Trail & Challenge events for year 4 & 5 pupils for first, primary & middle schools from  across the borough. Friday 4th October proved to be a testing day for the pupuls due to the wet weather but it certainly did not…

On Thursday evening over 70 boys from Burnside, Churchill, John Spence, Kings Priory,Longbenton, St. Thomas More, Valley Gardens , Wellfield & Whitley Bay participated in the U13 Table Tennis & the U16 Basketball Central Venue Leauge. These events have been running alongside one another throughout the autumn term for the last couple of academic years…

Boys and girls teams in key stage 4 from Burnside, Churchill, Lonbenton & St. Thomas More joined the team on Tuesday evening for the first of the Badminton CVLs at Churchill. 7 boys teams & 5 girls teams, who are viying for a place at the final in January played in teams of 4, playing…

Hundreds of year 2 pupils got their hearts pumping at the first of the PE & School Sport team’s Mutli-skills Festivals today. The young people participated in lots of different activities, working on their running, jumping, throwing, catching, accuracy, timing & reaction skills! Phew! I think there might be some tired school children by the…