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This Friday we would love to see as many of you as possible take part in South Tyneside’s Virtual School Games. It is a full day of events for you and your family to take part in together.
It would be great if Year 2 to Year 6 pupils have any photos that they share them with their teacher on Google Classroom and parents may want to add them to the Facebook Event page too.
All aspects of the day will be broadcast on the Tyne & Wear Sport Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuLMIXA6vv7Pnx-9nEvCbw
The day will run as followed:
Virtual School Games 2020 – Running Order
Make sure you’re following our social media pages or have subscribed to our Youtube channel to see our challenges as they’re posted throughout the day!
You shouldn’t need too much equipment if you join in at home, but if you don’t have something don’t worry just try to be inventive.
10:00am Opening ceremony
Introduced by a famous sporting star with some brilliant motivational and inspiring anecdotes to kick start the day.
10.15am Good luck messages
We’ll be showing a whole host of good luck messages from some well-know sporting stars as well as some familiar faces.
10.30am Fitness with Andrew Pearson PT
A range of fitness challenges for both primary and secondary ages from personal trainer Andrew Pearson including balance and coordination activities.
11.00am Ball skills with Cramlington United and Andrew Cartwright Football Coaching
Skills for both primary and secondary level from Cramlington United and Andrew Cartwright Football Coaching including changing direction whilst throwing and catching a ball, bouncing and running with a ball, dribbling a ball around cones, bounce-kick-catch drills, and knee-kick-catch drills.
11.30am Cheerleading, Dance and Parkour with North East Cheer and The Urban Factory
Cheer challenge for all levels including putting your own routine together from a variety of moves demonstrated, and various dance challenges for all levels including a fun plank challenge to the ‘cha cha slide’. Parkour bodyweight challenges suitable for secondary level only.
12.00pm Daily Mile
A Daily Mile update and message from Daily Mile Ambassador Eliud Kipchoge
12.15pm Garden Games
A compilation of fun exercises and workouts using household items, to try at home or school.
12.30pm Lunchtime Mascot Challenge
We want participants to create their very own Virtual School Games Mascot. They can draw, paint, use arts and crafts – whatever they like! Older children may even want to write a message to go with theirs, perhaps a slogan like ‘Always try your best’. Once they’re finished, share them with us over at #VSG20 and the best idea will receive a prize.
1.00pm Ball Skills with Morpeth Hockey and Morpeth Cricket Clubs, and Cramlington Tennis Club
A range of hockey, cricket and tennis challenges for both primary and secondary levels including changing direction with the ball using the hockey stick, turning to catch the ball from behind and volleying the ball with the bat or racquet.
1.30pm Ball Skills with Newcastle Vikings Handball and Blyth RFC
Various ball skills including passing and catching with the same hand, passing from one hand to another, a figure of eight pass between the legs and passing the ball around the body.
2.00pm Yoga Challenge with Active Families NE
Our final session of the day is a great cool down and post-activity stretch. In this challenge, you can spell out your name in Yoga postures. Suitable for both primary and secondary levels.
2.30pm Closing ceremony
Closing speech from our star guest host. Remember, you can continue sharing your challenges with us by using #VSG20 on social media. All of our videos will stay on our Youtube channel in case you missed them or want to try them again. Our team will then look through all of the videos submitted via social media and the winners will be announced w/c 29 June. They will receive an Amazon voucher for their family or school (depending on where they took part in the Virtual School Games). Be sure to keep an eye on out social media pages to see if it’s you!
There are prizes up for grabs for those that share their vidoes of the day using #VSG20 on social media. We too will be keeping an eye across facebook and twitter on the day and will be sharing all of your action! (THIS MUST BE DONE BY A PARENT OR ADULT!)
We hope that you take part if you can, and enjoy it if you do!
We have been sent the following information about the Virtual Games on Friday. Here is a list of some of the equipment you may be able to use during each session. This is SUGGESTED equipment so you don’t have to have it. You can also pick and select which events you wish to take part in.
10.30am Fitness with Andrew Pearson PT
Cones/markers
Hurdle/something to jump over – even a skipping rope/ruler/line on the floor will do
Hand held weights/bean bags/tennis-sized balls (for wheelchair users)
11.00am Ball skills with Cramlington United and Andrew Cartwright Football Coaching
Cones/markers
Ball suitable for bouncing, kicking and dribbling
11.30am Cheerleading, Dance and Parkour with North East Cheer and The Urban Factory
Mat
12.15pm Garden Games
Small ball i.e. tennis ball to pass against a wall
Bean bag/small ball to catch
Cones/something stackable
12.30pm Lunchtime Mascot Challenge
Anything arts/crafts to create a drawing/picture/model of a mascot
1.00pm Ball Skills with Morpeth Hockey and Morpeth Cricket Clubs, and Cramlington Tennis Club
Hockey stick and ball
Cricket bat and ball
Tennis racquet and ball
1.30pm Ball Skills with Newcastle Vikings Handball and Blyth RFC
Small ball/beanbag
Something to aim at e.g. cone/beanbag
Rugby ball
2.00pm Yoga Challenge with Active Families NE
Mat
Hello everyone, it’s Mrs Cunningham here again.
At school yesterday, I was chatting about how lots of people seem happier in the past few days. People in the street, people in the Co Op and people on the news on the TV. Mrs Peacock sent me this little story which I thought I would share with you.
A wise teacher once brought balloons to school and blew them up. She then told the children to write their name on one of them. Then the children let go of them in the hall and the teacher moved through the hall mixing them all up. The children were given five minutes to find the balloon with their name on it. They all searched really hard, but no one found their own balloon.
So then the teacher told the children to take the balloon closest to them and give it to the person whose name was on it. In less than two minutes, everyone was holding their own balloon.
The teacher said to the children, “These balloons are like happiness. We won’t find it when we are only searching for our own. But if we care about someone else’s happiness we will then find our own.”
So, I think if you do something nice today for someone and it makes them feel happy, I bet you will feel happy too.
Have a wonderful Wednesday
Mrs Cunningham
Here is the story which I was going to share with you in assembly today. I hope you enjoy it. There would have been pictures and a couple of songs too, so you will have to use your imagination, and then maybe you could sing the rainbow song at the end.
The Story of The Rainbow
Once upon a time the colours of the world started to quarrel: they all wanted to be the best and the most important.
Green said: “Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. I was chosen for grass, leaves and trees. Look out over the countryside and you will see that I am everywhere.”
Blue interrupted: “What about the sky and sea. The sky gives space and peace. Without my peace, you would all be nothing.”
Yellow chuckled. “You are all so serious. I bring laughter and warmth to the world. The sun is yellow, the moon is yellow, the stars are yellow. Every time you look at a sunflower, the whole world starts to smile. Without me, there would be no fun.”
Orange started next. “I am the colour of strength. I may be rare but I am precious for human life. I carry the most important vitamins. Think of carrots, pumpkins, oranges and mangos. I don’t hang around all the time, but when I fill the sky at sunrise or sunset, my beauty is so striking that no one gives another thought to any of you.”
Red started shouting: “I am the ruler of all of you. I am blood! I am the colour of danger and of bravery. I am the colour of roses and poppies. Without me, the earth would be as empty.”
Purple rose up to his full height. He was very tall and spoke with importance “I am the colour of royalty and power. Kings, chiefs, and bishops have always chosen me for I am a sign of authority and wisdom. People do not question me. They obey.”
Finally, Indigo spoke, much more quietly than all the others but with just as much determination: “think of me. I am the colour of silence. You hardly notice me, but without me, you all become nothing. I represent thought and reflection, twilight and deep water.”
And so all the colours went on boasting and quarrelling, each convinced that they were the best. Soon, their quarrelling became louder and louder. Suddenly there was a startling flash of bright lightening! Thunder rolled and boomed! Rain started to pour down.
Rain began to speak: “You silly colours, fighting amongst yourselves, each trying to be better than the rest. Don’t you know you were each made for a special purpose, unique and different? Join hands with one another and come to me.”
Doing as they were told, the colours united and joined hands. The rain continued: “From now on, when it rains, each of you will stretch across the sky in a great bow of colours as a reminder that you can all live in peace and appreciate each other.
Now you know that at the end of assembly, I ask what the meaning of the story is. Well, I think this one is all about being yourself and being special, and when we all work together we can be super strong…just like our super Mortimer Family.
Have a terrific Tuesday
Mrs Cunningham
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Hello everyone, it’s Mrs Cunningham here again.
Another weekend over and another Monday morning is here. I hope you had a lovely weekend. I know that lots of you have had your birthdays recently and maybe your big party got postponed. That’s what happened in my house this week. Rachel was 21 years old, and when you are 21 sometimes you have a bigger celebration than normal. Ask your mams and dads what they did for their 21st birthday. So we had balloons, music and presents on Wednesday and on Saturday, so she actually got 2 parties. It was really nice, but it was a shame her friends could not have been there too. So when all this is over we are going to have another party. I know that’s what some of you will be doing too. I think we will all be very busy celebrating and going to so many birthday parties. It’s going to be so much fun.
If you are coming into school this week for the first time in a while, I will see you then. Otherwise, I will see all of you hopefully very soon.
Have a marvellous Monday.
Mrs Cunningham
P.S Guess who thought it was all about him!! We didn’t tell him that the 1 had spun around!!
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