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#INSPIRE PE & School Sport Conference 2024
25/11/2024
On Friday, our annual PE & School Sport Conference took place at The South Causey Inn! The conference saw over 50 PE co-ordinators from Gateshead primary schools come together and partake in multiple workshops throughout the day. As well as an excellent key note speech from Adrian Tuitt, there were 5 workshops running for PE coordinators to a...
Year 5 Playground Leader Training
21/11/2024
We were back at Gateshead Stadium on Thursday, joined by groups of year 5 students from 8 schools. These students had been selected by their teachers to take part in our Playground Leader training event in order to learn the necessary leadership skills and game ideas to take back to their school and put into practice on the yard. The training day...

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Year 5 Playground Leader Training
21/11/2024
We were back at Gateshead Stadium on Thursday, joined by groups of year 5 students from 8 schools. These students had been selected by their teachers to take part in our Playground Leader training event in order to learn the necessary leadership skills and game ideas to take back to their school and put into practice on the yard. The training day...
Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics FINALS
14/11/2024
Today we were at Gateshead Stadium for our Sportshall Athletics Finals! Joining us were 10 qualifying schools from across the burough. These were the highest scoring teams from our three qualifying events. Our competitors took part in events on both the track and field side of the sportshall, with different relay races on the track and an array of...
Panathlon Ten Pin Bowling
12/11/2024
Our Ten Pin Bowling event took place today at Riverside Bowling Centre in Sunderland, with help from SMILE through Sport and Panathlon.  This morning, we were joined by 16 primary teams who went head to head in a game of traditional ten pin bowling. There was an excellent atmosphere throughout the venue and a great time had by all! The primar...
Year 5/6 Tag Rugby FINALS
05/11/2024
7 teams joined us at Blaydon Leisure Centre on Tuesday for the Gateshead Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Finals! These were the top 7 teams from the three qualifying events hosted across this term. Teams all played eachother in a round robin, scoring points for wins (3) , draws (2) or loses (1). We were extremely impressed with the standard of rugby played th...
NEW VENUE! - KS1 Indoor Athletics Festival
04/10/2024
It was extremely exciting to be hosting an event in a new venue yesterday! Our Key Stage 1 Indoor Athletics Festival toook place in Gateshead College's "Academy for Sport". The specialist academy's facilities feature an 83m long indoor athletics track, as well as a full size long jump pit, high jump mat and indoor throwing circle. Our Key Stage 1...
PRIMARY CROSS COUNTRY 2024!
03/10/2024
We had an excellent day yesterday at Watergate Forest Park for our annual Gateshead Primary Schools Cross Country Competition! There were 4 races throughout the afternoon which saw boys and girls from years 3/4 and years 5/6 take a lap of Watergate. Year 3/4s ran approximately 1,200m and year 5/6s ran around 1,800m. We had an excellent group of y...
EYFS Multi Sport Festival 2024!
27/09/2024
Our first Primary event of the year! We were happy to be back at Gateshead Leisure Centre following the reopeing over summer! Joining us yesterday were 150+ reception aged children from across Gateshead, taking part in different skills based learning to develop their physical activity, with a focus on running, jumping, throwing and catching. Our...
#INSPIRE VIRTUAL TORCH RELAY 2024 SUCCESS!
28/06/2024
Our 2024 #INSPIRE Torch Relay started at the beginning of June. The project saw 26 Gateshead schools and over 6,000 children come together to celebrate community and Olympic spirit by taking a leg of the relay! Each participating school hosted the #INSPIRE Torch for one day, as it travelled around Gateshead. On their Torch Days, schools celebrated...
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