A group of girls and boys from Years 3, 4 and 6 recently took part in the annual Sainsbury’s School Games Swimming Gala held and the Louisa Centre. All the children had a great time competing against over 15 other local primary schools and demonstrated their fantastic swimming skills and great determination in a range of individual and team events. The children, along with a large crowd of spectators, had great fun cheering on one another and joining in the excitement. All the children behaved fantastically throughout and were excellent role models for our school. On the day, Team Delves had various successes with multiple 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishes in their heats. A huge well done to all the children who represented our school this year!
Autumn Term House Reward Trip
Krazy Kingdom
This week all the boys and girls from Phoenix House took part in their reward trip to Krazy Kingdom to celebrate earning the most house points during the Autumn Term. The children had a great time playing with their friends and took full advantage of the wide range of facilities on offer such as ball pits, climbing walls, slides and a football zone. Throughout the trip, the children were excellent ambassadors for our school, particularly some of the older children who looked after both younger pupils and members of the public who were also using the facilities. Well done to all the children who took part in the visit and congratulations to Phoenix House for earning the most points last term. Keep up the good work!
Derwentside Dodgeball Festival (Year 3) 2019-20
The children in Year 3 had a great time at their dodgeball festival at North Durham Academy. They used the throwing, catching and dodging skills they had been practising in PE fantastically against teams from various other local schools. All of the children showed great teamwork and had lots of fun working together as a team!
Derwentside Dodgeball Festival (Year 6) 2019-20
Recently, a group of Year 6 pupils took part in the Derwentside Dodgeball Festival at North Durham Academy. The children had a great time competing against pupils from other local schools and performed fantastically throughout. They showed great team spirit cheering on one another and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship and honesty during games. Well done to all the children who took part!
Take a look below at some of the children in action…
Sainsbury’s School Games KS2 Sportshall Athletics Competition
Recently a group of boys and girls from Year 6 took part in the Sainsbury’s School Games Sportshall Athletics Competition. This competition involved many schools from across Derwentside competing over the course of two days in a range of track and field events including sprints, relays, jumps and throws. As expected, the level of competition was very high but all involved had a fantastic time and performed excellently throughout. Team Delves were excellent ambassadors for our school and once again showed great sportsmanship, thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to cheer on one another. Our school finished in a close 3rd place on the day to take home bronze medals with various children winning both team and individual events. Well done to all the children who took part!
Sainsbury’s School Games KS1 Sportshall Athletics Competition
Recently, all the children in Year 1 took part in a sportshall athletics competition intended to introduce our children to range of indoor athletics events and get everyone up and active. The children had a fantastic time taking part in a range of different events involving: running, jumping, throwing and catching. The children behaved fantastically throughout the day and really enjoyed cheering on one another. Well done Year 1!
Take a look at the picture below to see the children in action…
Kingsway Residential Visit 2019-20
This year, our Year 6 children visited the Kingsway Outdoor Education Centre in Middleton-in-Teesdale for three slightly damp days of action-packed outdoors adventure. It has been fantastic to see the children really excel themselves throughout the week in so many ways! Their teamwork skills, bravery and determination has been put to the test and it has been fantastic to see so many children trying out new activities, learning new skills and conquering fears.
Wednesday
The children arrived early on their first day eager to begin and surprisingly took on their first challenge (making their beds and unpacking) with an unexpected enthusiasm even though it usually turns out to be one of the greatest challenges of the entire week! After a quick lunch, the children headed straight out on their first activities – the ever-entertaining crate stacking challenge. This activity involves great teamwork and communications skills to see how high each pair of children can build their tower of creates. The only down side being that they must remain standing on their tower without falling off, even as it is being built! After this, there was just time for few more team building games around the center. Once all the children have finished, there was a short break for their evening meal before they once again got kitted up for a late-night walk through the local woods. Once they reached the center of the woods, it was time to stop to explore the starry sky and investigate how our eyes adapt in complete darkness.
Thursday
The next morning the children were up bright an early, with only a few tired faces, ready for another action-packed day of activities. Their first task was to get kitted up and head back into the woods for a busy day of bush craft. They began by learning different methods of building camouflaged woodland shelters using rope, tarpaulin and the natural resources around them. They discussed the benefits of each of the different types of shelter and attempted to create their own with varying success. After everyone’s shelters were made, the children headed further into the woods for one of the more nerve-jangling activities of the week, the zipwire across the river. Dangling many feet in the air, the children would leap from one side of the river gorge and pull themselves along the rope to the other side to check out some otherwise inaccessible cliffside caves. Luckily, all those who dared attempted the crossing made it to the other side without plunging into the watery depths below! After such an exciting day, the children certainly deserved a well-earned rest with their evening activity of toasting marshmallows around the camp fire. This, for some reason, always seems to be an exciting experience and gave the children some time to reflect on all they had achieved so far. They even had enough time to squeeze in the annual game of Kingsway Bingo and put their general knowledge to the test in the Kingsway Center Quiz!
Friday
On the final morning, it was time to gather up everyone’s belongings and pack up their bags in anticipation of their return to school. After a relatively short lie in, the children had their final breakfast before it was at last time to take on the centre’s infamous high ropes course. This put the children’s fear of heights to the test. However, it was lovely to see so many children working together to overcome their fears and yet again the children were superstars! Many children began with slightly concerned faces but by the end of the activity they were swinging through the trees without fear. There was just enough time for those who were feeling particularly brave to finish this task by abseiling back to the ground from one of the higher trees. Sadly, before long everyone was back at the center and marching once again through the main entrance back towards the waiting bus ready to take them home.
Mr Turnbull, Miss Jones and Mr Milburn would all like to say a huge well done to the children involved in the visit this year for being superstars throughout! It has been a pleasure to look after the children and we are all extremely proud of how all the children have behaved. They have worked well together, showed great determination and bravery and hopefully created memories that will never be forgotten!
Sports Day 2018-19
This week our children have been taking part in their annual sports days, the final events in our inter-school sporting competition calendar. All the children had a fantastic time taking part in the wide range of sporting activities on offer, from an action packed obstacle course using our OPAL equipment in Early Years, to various track and field events for KS1 and KS2 pupils. It has been fantastic to see the children demonstrating what excellent sporting talent we have at our school! Congratulations to Griffin House who came out as overall winners this year but a huge well done to all the children who took part to make each event such a success. Also, thank you to all the parents who came along to cheer on their children!
Take a look at the pictures below to see some of our children in action…
KS1 Sports Day – Classes 3, 4, 5 & 6
Lower KS2 Sports Day – Classes 7, 8, 9 & 10
Upper KS2 Sports Day – Classes 11, 12 & 13
Derwentside Boys Cricket Festival 2018-19
This year we took two teams of Year 6 children to the Derwentside Cricket Festival held at Consett Cricket Ground. The festival is an early introduction to Cricket and allowed the boys to put the skills they have learnt in their PE lessons to the test against children from other local primary schools. The children all had a fantastic day and demonstrated great team spirt throughout, energetically cheering on their peers. Both teams performed very well, with Delves ‘A’ winning all their group games to progress to the finals. They eventually finished in 4th place overall from a selection of over 20 teams! A huge well done to all the boys who took part!
See below for a range of pictures from the day…
Year 5 House Cup Kwik Cricket Event
Recently, our Year 5 children took part in their Kwik Cricket House Cup Competition. The children performed excellently throughout and as a result, every game was very close. The children displayed some excellent batting and field skills and it was fantastic to see all the children working together and supporting each other. In an extremely close final between Griffin House and Minotaur House, Griffin eventually came out on top as overall winners but a huge well done to all the children who took part!
