February Half Term Activities 2025

19th February 2025Kathryn Smith

February Half Term Activities 2025

  • Library Activities – free including board games and lego Library events and activities – South Tyneside Council
  • South Tyneside Youth Service – timetable of youth groups (these continue as normal over school holidays)
  • South Tyneside Youth Service – 12-week programme for ages 15 – 17
  • Youth Voice Group Poster – have your say about activities you would like to access
  • Auxillia Youth Groups – youth groups on daily from ages 5 – 16 (these continue as normal over the school holidays)
  • Lads only Youth Group – every Thursday at 6pm at The Hut, Biddick Hall ages – 11-15
  • Home Educated Youth Group – every Wednesday 11am – 1pm at The Hut, Biddick Hall ages 11-16
  • Family Hubs – Half Term sow and grow activities, youth groups, Dads groups and learning through play
  • Family Hub Website- Homepage – For Every Family
  • Family Hub Face book (1) Facebook
  • Family Hub Instagram www.instagram.com
  • Williby Rocs – Eco activities through the Family Hubs (booking required – scan QR code)
  • Science Activities – Ages 5+ through the Family Hubs (booking required – scan QR code)
  • Arts and Crafts – Thursday 27th February ages 5-14. Please contact Bede Family Hub to book a place on the Arts and Crafts session on 0191 4220030
  • Junior Park Run – home | North Marine junior parkrun | North Marine junior parkrun Every Sunday at 9am (unless weather is bad) at North Marine Park. Ages 4-14
  • St Simon’s Church, South Shields – Family Games Club (must have an adult attending too) Half Term Family Games Club Tickets, Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite
  • For more activities – What’s on – South Tyneside Council

Ongoing activities – check ahead for holiday opening times

South Tyneside Community Page – This is the link to the community activities page.

South Tyneside Volunteering Opportunities – This is the link to the volunteering page.

Half Term Food Offers

  • ASDA – Kids eat for £1 year-round at Asda Cafés.And you don’t need to buy an adult meal or spend a minimum amount to get the deal.
  • Beefeater – Get two free kids’ breakfasts at Beefeaterin school holidays with every adult breakfast purchased.
  • Brewers Fayre – Get a free unlimited buffet breakfast for two under 16s at Brewers Fayrewhen you buy an adult breakfast in school holidays.
  • Dobbies Garden Centre – At Dobbies caféskids eat free when you buy an adult traditional or full breakfast or main meal.
  • Morrisons Café – Kids eat free all day every day in Morrisons caféswhen you buy an adult meal that costs more than £5.
  • Ikea – Kids eat from 95p at Ikea restaurants. Choose from pasta and tomato sauce or mac and cheese served with a soft drink and piece of fruit.
  • Pizza Hut – Pizza Hutis offering a free kids’ buffet at selected restaurants this half term when you spend £10 on food and use the code KEF. The buffet is available until 3pm every day.
  • Sainsbury Café – Kids eat for £1 in Sainsbury’s caféswhen you purchase a hot adult’s meal. The offer is available year-round from 11.30am.

Website link to more offers:  Places Kids Eat Free (or for £1) In School Holidays 2025

The following organisations provide food support for residents in need:

Hospitality & Hope |The support includes Community Shops, Welfare Support, Debt Advice and a crisis Foodbank.

Key to Life Foodbank – Key The support includes the Community Food Bus, Pre-loved uniform shop, advice/support and a crisis Foodbank.

Hebburn Helps – A food bank and crisis response team providing food parcels, clothing, baby equipment, household items and more.

Bede’s Helping Hands – A volunteer run organisation serving South Tyneside.  They are based in the former Primrose Library in the Scotch Estate, Jarrow. 0191 816 3021 Facebook: Bede’s Helping Hands Food Bank

Boldon Community Association Food Bank – The community association, based in New Road in Boldon Colliery, offers a food bank for the local community.

Family Gateway – Working across the North East, Family Gateway supports families who are living in poverty or disadvantage and are struggling to bring up their children on very little money.

Bart Rippon tournament

10th February 2025Kathryn Smith

On Friday the school football team took part in the at the Washington Hub.  The standard of football on display was superb as was the way the team supported and backed each other up.

 

 

Y5 Table Cricket

10th February 2025Kathryn Smith

Recently several pupils from our Year 5 had the chance to try out a new sport, table cricket.  The game is a cross between table tennis and table football and the children really enjoyed learning the new sport and playing against children from other schools.  Despite the children having never played before they won every game they played and will move on to represent South Tyneside in the Durham County Cricket Club finals.

Allotment Fun!

6th February 2025Emma Adams

We are delighted to be working with Kaye and Danielle from Williby Rocs. Last week, some of our Year 6 pupils began to draw up designs for our allotment site, and made a planting timetable for different vegetable seeds. In Year 2 this week, Y2A started with a quiz on the different parts of a flower, and also thought about what our seeds would need to grow. We began to discuss the importance of attracting butterflies and bees into our garden. We then planted some onion, broad bean and pea seeds after looking at the plan from year 6. We learnt that sowing means planting a seed when it is very small. We loved getting our hands dirty! Bobby even made links to our morning maths work – noticing that the seeds were planted in 3s! Over the coming weeks, we are looking forward to observing and caring for our seeds. We even started to design scarecrows to place in the allotment and hopefully protect our growing plants! Thank you Kaye and Danielle!

Learning about the Police

5th February 2025Julie Smith

This week in Nursery we’ve been learning about how the Police help us. We’ve been detectives looking at initial sounds and using cubes to count the length of footprints at a crime scene!

Wellbeing award of the month

29th November 2024Kathryn Smith

Our pupil of the month award was a special one this month. Linked to anti-bullying week, it was for pupils who have excelled in PSHE. These pupils have shown great understanding of how to be a good friend and citizen. Well done to all our stars!

Key to Life – the School Council’s first mission!

27th November 2024eclark

The School Council were thrilled to help the foodbank with unpacking and sorting all of your Canny Friday donations. The children carefully labelled the canned foods and dried goods with their use-by dates on a recent visit to Key to Life. They enjoyed asking the foodbank’s volunteers some carefully thought through questions and were amazed at how the foodbank makes such a difference to our local community.