Some of our Y5 and Y6 girls had a very exciting opportunity today to visit Dance City in Newcastle as part of South Tyneside’s School Sport Network. The girls learned a dance routine and then they had the opportunity to choreograph their own routine and perform it. It was a fantastic morning!
Year 5 were visited by Peter from Ready Go Sports to learn about an exciting sport called VXBall. We practised various skills before taking part in matches. VXBall is a combination of lacrosse and dodgeball. We had great fun!
Today, eight Year 6 children took part in an MMA taster class at McNaldo’s Gym. The children loved learning MMA skills and the coaches were very impressed with how quickly they learnt the skills.
Harton 4 v 0 Whitburn
At first, we were a bit shaky and inviting pressure onto ourselves, but then we started to keep the ball better and whilst defending we were getting more impact and started to win the ball. Just as everyone started believing that we could score, we did not disappoint and scored 2 goals. Just before half time a mistake at the back gave Whitburn a superb chance but Maisy made outstanding saves. In the second half, with our game faces on we played some really good attacking football and scored another 2 goals to wrap the game up.
Overall a game and a 4-0 win over Whitburn thanks to two goals each for both Charlie and Leon. Well done, Harton.
Harton 2 – 0 Westoe Crown
After kick off, Westoe began to pressurise us with many goal scoring opportunities with us playing on the counter attack. As we were under the cosh from the beginning we knew whoever got the first goal would be the team with the upper hand. Luckily our fantastic captain, Leon, scored the first goal to relieve the pressure. I was playing central defensive midfield and trying to pass the ball wide to Harry and Charlie whenever I got the opportunity.
After a tight first half, Mr Steadman got us ready for the second half with a very encouraging team talk. Early in the second half a pass from Ollie to our other new Year 5, Jesse, set him up for his first goal and understandably he was overjoyed with his achievement. I moved into defence with Bonnie and we worked well to hold the line and then Harley replaced me and along with Maisy kept a clean sheet.
Overall an amazing performance, with many brilliant saves from Maisy. Well done Harton, 2-0 is a brilliant score line that we should all be proud of.
Louie M
On Thursday, several children from Year 4 attended the first ever Around the World in Sporty Ways festival. The children were able to try sports from around the world including American Football, Kabaddi and Handball. All the children loved the experience.
We loved taking part in a range of different sports activities on Wednesday afternoon. We were lucky to have year 5 pupils as our instructors. We competed in team events such as the bean bag balance, sprint relay, obstacl
e race and bunny hop relay! We love keeping fit!
This term we are offering a range of extra curricular clubs.
Monday Karate for Years 4 and 5
Tuesday Clubbercise for Years 5 and 6
Wednesday Yoga for Year 2, Football for Years 5 and 6
Thursday Gymnastics for Year 3
Friday Little Movers for Year 1
We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Platinum Mark Award for the 2022/23 academic year. This is the highest award that the School Games Mark issues.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
Yesterday children from our Year 6 attended a cricket festival at Whitburn Cricket Club. The children played Countdown Cricket and really enjoyed themselves. Well done to all involved!
