Champion of Champions Competition and Bart Rippon Cup

25th June 2019A Stelling

Champion of Champions Competition

This competition is only open to South Tyneside School’s football league winners. Our A team being the Snowdon League winners guaranteed us a place. The competition was played at the Academy of Light on Thursday 20th June. Mortimer faced stiff opposition against some very capable teams. However, we managed two wins and a draw against the five other teams present. Well done to the team for a successful season!

Bart Rippon Cup

This was a very popular competition which saw 17 schools across South Tyneside enter. Mortimer won their group finals. This put them through to the semis which we eventually won on penalties. The final saw another nail biting finish with Mortimer emerging the champions with a Golden Goal!

Y2 Football

19th June 2019A Stelling
On Tuesday 30 Y2 children took part in South Tyneside’s KS1 football festival at Mariner’s Park. The children took on a series of challenges and learned new skills. The girls and boys all had a wonderful afternoon.

Y4 Lego League

11th June 2019A Stelling

Some of our Year 4 children took part in LEGO First League competition. The competition celebrated the children’s hard work using STEM: science, technology, engineering and maths. The Mortimer Master Movers brought home the construction and innovation award.

Well done to the team! We think you were out of this world!

Y2 Washington Wetland Centre 2019

11th June 2019A Stelling

On Thursday 6th June all of Year 2 visited Washington Wetland Centre. As part of their Habitats topic in science they took part in three lead activities. They enjoyed pond dipping, a mini beast hunt and a map work session looking at world habitats and adaptions of the creatures living there.They had talks on otters and flamingos. They then had free time to visit the mini beast garden, the duckery, hide and of course the play park. A great time was had by all.

Outdoor Education Week @ Mortimer 2019 (School Based)

9th June 2019A Stelling

Last week 32 of our fabulous Y6 children had an exciting week full of activities such as canoeing in the Marine Park, rock climbing, problem solving, orienteering, athletics with Start 2 Finish, basketball with the Newcastle Eagles, Football with GS Football Coaching, swimming at Haven Point and these are just a few of the activities that left both the children and the staff exhausted but very happy by Friday tea time.

Our children, as always, were amazing and showed resilience and determination in some challenging activities. Comments were made by all coaches and companies, who provided training, on the behavior, attitude and manners of our pupils. We were very proud as a group of our children and couldn’t have asked for a better week.

Here are just a few of the photos from a brilliant week.

Where Did All the Animals Go?

6th June 2019A Stelling

Our Year 4 children took part in workshops held by local artist, Jane Lee McCracken, as mentioned previously their work will be displayed as part of the an exhibition. Below is a link to the press release for the event, containing information about viewing and some lovely examples of the work produced.

‘WHERE DID ALL THE ANIMALS GO?’ 
An Exhibition of North East School Children’s Drawings
Working with Artist, Jane Lee McCracken
20 June – 22 July 2019 | Thought Foundation
Clarity House, Durham Road, Birtley, DH3 2TB, UK
Exhibition opening night 20 June 2019 1730 – 2200 Open to All

https://janeleemccracken.co.uk/blogs/where-did-all-the-animals-go/exhibition-and-conference

Y1 Tri Golf Competition

23rd May 2019A Stelling

Last Thursday 30 Year 1 children went to a Trigolf tournament where they developed their ball control skills. They learnt how to use a golf club effectively to hit the ball and took part in a variety of activities including competitive target practise, a distance competiton for hitting the ball past a certain target and also a ball control assault course. They had a great time!

Pink and Blue Day – Wednesday 22nd May 2019

20th May 2019A Stelling

Mortimer Primary School will be taking part in the Together Forever Trust on 22nd May.  School uniform is to be worn on the day, but children can wear something extra in blue or pink, i.e. ribbon; bobbles; socks; wristbands, etc.

Donations will be welcomed for the charity.