On Friday the 16th of June, Year 6 “made history” according to Newcastle Eagles coach Graham Heath, as they brought all the school in the North East together to compete against each other in the year 6 Hoops4Health tournament. Our team of 7 took on 36 other schools from North Tyneside, Newcastle, Gateshead and South Tyneside in an all day tournament.

We took on the 5 other teams of group C, only finding defeat by one basket against St. Bede’s with a score of 4-2 and coming second in our group.

However, all was not lost. Being one of the 2 most successful runners up, along with Cleadon CoE, we got through to the quarter finals. Only to be beaten, again 4-2.

They day ended with meeting Newcastle Eagle number 13, Darius Defoe (when free from autographs) and our own Eleanor Dolan being scouted for the Newcastle Eagles U12 girls team, of only 20 girls being picked from the day.

It was a tough day, but fun. Now our year 5s have a lot of work to do for next years event!