This Thursday (20th Sep) sees the first year 5/6 football tournament of the 2007/8 season. Ten of our year 5/6 boys and girls will be representing the school at a tournament to be held at Colegate Primary School. The tournament begins at 3.30 and will run to 5.30 approximately. Parents are welcome to come along and support the children and your help would be most appreciated with lifts to the school.
Mr Otterson
On Thursday 22nd November Mrs Armstrong took a group of children to the Gymnastic Festival held a Gateshead leisure Centre. The two groups of children were Year 3/4 and Year 5/6. The children each did a floor routine which had some technical gymnastic moves. The children, staff and parents enjoyed the festival.
Year 6 represented the school in the Gateshead schools basketball finals on Tuesday 27th November. They finished in fourth place out of the many Gateshead schools that took part. Well done to our team!
We are fortunate to have a number of coaches coming into school during this term, including tennis coach Jonathan Newton, who has coached a number of different classes across the school. He is currently working with Mrs Damti's class. Mrs Barnes' and Mrs Walker's class are receiving coaching from the Eagles as part of the Hoops for Health programme, prior to their tournament later this term. Mr Otterson's class have just begun a programme of rugby coaching on a Thursday afternoon - so watch out Jonny Wilkinson!
After taking part in a Gateshead schools basketball tournament run by The Hoops 4 Health scheme, one of our teams advanced into the final at The Metro Arena last Friday night. They played before the main game between Newcastle Eagles and Scottish Rocks. Although they did not win, this was a great experience for them and they played extremely well. Everyone enjoyed the night, and the Eagles won!
All children will be working with Jonathan Newton, the professional tennis coach at some time this academic year. This half term he is working with Mrs Barnes' and Miss Mason's classes.
Two of our Year 5/6 pupils represented Joseph Swan feeder schools at an athletics tournament at Gateshead Stadium. They both performed really well, with Chelsey Smith winning the gold medal in her race. Well done!
In the last term our children have been receiving professional coaching in their PE lessons in basketball, athletics, rugby, golf and tennis. We feel that the children have benefitted greatly from the expert tuition.
On Wednesday 7th May, 13 children from Key Stage 2 visited Joseph Swan as part of their Rewards for Sport Programme. Photos from the afternoon can be found in the Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 galleries.
Continue reading "Rewards for Sport at Joseph Swan School." »
Several classes are having sports coaching this half term, and having loads of fun learning new sports skills.
Year 5 - cricket, athletics, golf
Year 5/6 - cricket, athletics
Year 6 - girls' football
Year 1/2 - dance
Year 3/4 - basketball
Year 3/4 - funfit
Cricket coaching is through the Chance to Shine initiative, FunFit and basketball are run by our own Mrs Armstrong, the other coaching is provided through the PE Partnership.
Teams from Glynwood are taking part in two tournaments in the near future.
22nd May - Year 3/4 striking & fielding at Joseph Swan
12th June - Year 5/6 girls' football at Joseph Swan
We wish both teams every success & hope that they have fun taking part!
Just to remind you that it is Early Years and Key Stage One Sports Day on Thursday 3rd July at 9.30 am.
Nursery will have their races first, then can either stay with a grown up or can go home.
Please can we remind you that children need to come to school ready in the morning with their kits and trainers on.
They will also need their water bottles, sun hats and cream, because of course it is going to be a beautiful day!!!
There will be sausage sandwiches for sale, as well as other refreshments, cakes and crisps, So please bring along some pennies.
Programmes will be on sale, but each one will hold a special number.
A winning number will be drawn at the end which will win a prize.
Don't forget too the parents race. We all look forward to it, so get practising. There will be a prize for ladies and mens races too.
See you all on Thursday.
On Thursday 3rd July children from Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed their sports day. Children competed in events such as running, sprint and long distance, ball and spoon, obstacle, skipping races, the welly waddle and relay races.
Teachers then joined the 3 legged race. Victory went to Mrs Yielder and Mrs Damti.
Finally everyone enjoyed watching the parents race.
Luckily the sun shone all morning for us and a great time was had by all.
Thank you to all who attended and supported us and helped make the morning such a success.
On the final day in June, 20 pupils attended the annual athletics tournament at Gateshead Stadium. There were a team of 10 year 3 / 4 athletes and 10 year 5 / 6 athletes participating in a range of different events. The Glynwood athletes proved extremely successful winning a host of medals on the day.
Roll of honour
Year 5 / 6
Bronze medal in the cricket ball throw - Hazel Harpin
Silver medal in the 3 spring jump - Bart Kowalczyk
Year 3 / 4
Gold medal in the 3 spring jump - Chayse Martin
Gold medal in the girls 60 m sprint - Chayse Martin
Gold medal in the girls relay - Chayse Martin, Gemma Tse, Caitlin Worlidge & Lucy Richardson
Silver medal in the 800m run - Lucy Richardson
Bronze medal in the 60m skipping - Molly Barber
All the children performed exceptionally well and many more pupils missed out on a medal by only one or two places.
fantastic job well done!!!
Fabulous results from both our girls and boys year 5 / 6 football teams,meant that both won their respective leagues this summer. The presentation evening for the boys leagues will take place on Thursday 10th july at Stormont main social club. Well done boys and girls!
Well done to all children who partcipated in the Glynwood games and the various cricket festivals over the past few weeks. There were many successes and all pupils represented their school with the right attitude and tried their best.
Year 5 and 6 pupils took part in a Netball tournament at Joseph Swan School on October 16th. Miss Mason and Mrs Rudge took 14 children to take part in a tournament against our local cluster schools. The children had attended several weeks of after school and lunch time sessions to improve their skills and it showed as they put on as fine display of netballing skills on the night. The teams came a very respectable 3rd and 4th overall against some high class opposition. Many thanks goes to the parents who helped out with lifts and of course to the fine coaching efforts of our staff.
Friday 26th June saw the annual athletics festival at Gateshead stadium with 50 schools competing and Glynwood school performed tremendously well yet again. A total of 20 children took part in a range of track and field events on an extremely wet day in high summer! Everyone took part in a fantastic sporting manner and we were successful in a number of events including the following:
Chayse Martin - Triple jump (gold medal), Relay (Silver medal) and 80m sprint (bronze medal)
Lucy Richardson - Long jump (gold medal), Relay (Silver medal)
Chelsey Smith - Javelin (bronze medal), Relay (Silver medal), 800m long run (bronze medal)
Jessie Cain - Relay (Silver medal)
Caitlin Gaughan - Relay (Silver medal), Cricket ball throw (silver medal)
Lots of other children reached finals and semi finals of their events and a good time was had by all!
Well done to all the athletes!
Key Stage 2 children competed in the Tesco Great Run on a VERY wet Friday in June!! We ran 1 mile around Saltwell Park, cheered on by an Olympic athlete. Some of the teachers even joined in!! Even though we all ended up very soggy, we had a great time.
Photos from the event can be seen on the Gallery section of the Evening Chronicle website.
This term has been a bit quieter than normal, partly due to the fact that the leisure centre has been closed and as a result several tournaments and festivals have been put on hold til later this year. We have had basketball and football tournaments this term in which the year 5 and 6 pupils have performed really well and look forward to the forthcoming hockey, netball and multiskills events in the next half term.
This has been a busy time for sport with particular focus upon Netball, Basketball and Hockey. Several teams attended a Netball tournament at Joseph Swan and one of our teams managed to qualify for the regional finals! The team represented the school really well and came 6th out of all the schools in Gateshead.
During the term the Newcastle Eagles visited with a healthy school roadshow and held a regional tournament in which one of our teams managed to qualify for the finals at the Arena (see article) and will represent the school at the Northern area finals on April 23rd.
3 teams visted Cardinal Hume school for a hockey tournament and did extremely well with virtually no practices due to the inclement weather at school. One of the teams qualified for the Gateshead finals at Whickham comp, where they eventually finished a very creditable 4th.
Well done to all the children who have participated in sporting events this term.
It has been a very busy summer term with lots of sporting events and tournaments. Here are some of the highlights!
The year 5 and 6 girls competed in a football tournament at Cleveland Hall against several other schools. One of the teams was victorious winning all of the games to come out as cluster champions for 2010.
We also held the annual athletics event of Gynwood games in June, which sees 5 of our local schools come and compete in year3,4,5 & 6 events. We were very well represented by each of the year groups coming 2nd and third in year 4,5 and 6. However, the great news was that for the first time ever, year 3 pupils brought home the winning trophy that has been held by Oakfield school for the past 7 years in a row!
Mrs Armstrong has taken several groups of pupils to Joseph Swan for multiskills events, whilst Newcastle sport in the community have held football and rounders clubs for year 3 to 6.
A group of year 5 and 6 pupils attended a basketball tournament at Kells Lane school and came out winners - well done to the children involved.
Mrs Walker has also held several tennis clubs and taken the pupils to many tournaments around the local area. Pupils enjoyed the events and represented the school very well.
On June 23rd Mr Otterson and Mrs Armstrong took 20 pupils to Gateshead stadium for the annual athletics festival. THere were over 1500 pupils that took part and our children were a credit to their school, behaving very well and performing to an extremely high standard.
Results year 5 / 6
Chayse Martin - Sprint gold medal, 3 spring jump gold medal, relay gold medal
Lucy Richardson - Sprint silver medal, long jump silver medal, relay gold medal
Molly Cronnie - relay gold medal
Aimee Paisley - relay gold medal
Results year 3 / 4
Jane Thomas - Throw Gold medal, Relay Silver medal
Jade English - Relay siver medal
Toni Anderson - Relay silver medal
Tegan Hewitt - Relay silver medal
Ryan Bradley - Sprint and relay bronze medal
Corrie Watson - Relay bronze medal
Joseph Linton - Relay bronze medal
Kieron Morris - Relay bronze medal
Lots of our children also reached finals in their events but just missed out on a medal. Well done to everyone who took part.
The first game was against St.Johns, we won 10-0.
Scorers:
Daniel candlish,3, Steven armstrong,3,Clarke armstrong, Devon armstrong, Kieran ward and David foody.
The second game ,against Colegate, was more of a challange but we still won 1-0.
missed penalty by liam pearson.
Scorer: Steven Armstrong, from the half way line (WOW)
`League winners 2010`
Written by Clarke Armstrong, Daniel Candlish and the mush
