Dear Parents/Carers,

Harvest Festival

Thank you to all those donated food and/or who attended our Harvest Festival on Wednesday, October 19th.  Your kind donations have been given to the Alnwick Food Bank.

U11 Boys Football

On the 1st of November, Dr Thomlinson took an U11 Boys football team to Dukes Academy in Ashington,  to play in the Stephen Tait Memorial Cup.

The teams were split into 3 mini leagues with the winners progressing to the finals.

Our first match was against Bede – the match was a close affair with some outstanding play from the Dr Thomlinson defence. Bede narrowly edged the game with a goal seconds before the final whistle.

Next up was NCEA Bishops, one of the strongest teams. The Bishops scored quickly and looked like they might run away with the game; however Dr TThomlinson’s rallied and recovered their composure – pushing for an equaliser and working the Bishop’s goalkeeper hard. The match ended 1-0 to Bishops but was a close affair.

The third match was against St Pauls from Cramlington. Dr Thomlinson dominated the match from the beginning and played some really good football. The match ended 2-0 to Dr Thomlinson but the score could have been greater had St Paul’s goalkeeper not pulled off some fantastic saves.

The final match saw Dr Thomlinson play St Aidans – the match was very close and both teams had chances to score early on. It was St Aidans who finally took their chance with a fantastic strike just before the whistle.

Well done to all boys who took part.

Thank you to Mr Pickup for writing this report

 

Yr 6 Rugby League World Cup Tag Rugby Festival

Well done to the Year 6 pupils who took part in the Rugby League World Cup Festival at Kingston Park on October 14th.

Our two teams won two games; drew two games and lost two games. Well done to Nick; Ben; Emme; Florence; Maise; River; Josh; Lucy; Charlotte; Matthew; Liam and Thomas for scoring tries in the competition.

I hope you are watching the Rugby League World Cup at the moment.  Tomorrow England Men play Papua New Guinea in the quarter finals.

 

Further East Northumberland Football Trial Success

Many notable footballers have begun their careers by playing for East Northumberland, most famously the Charlton brothers.  So we are very pleased Toby in Year 7 has joined Emily in Year 8 in being selected for his respective County age group team.

Reading

Reading is a priority at our school and thank you to all those pupils who took part in our Book Fair every lunchtime this week.

I hope you have a restful weekend.

Take care,

Liam Murtagh