NUFC Foundation Celebration

As a way of thanking the school for our support of the Newcastle United Foundation's Match Fit programme, a small group of children were invited to an event at St. James' Park.

We spent the afternoon sampling some delicious food and mingling with such sporting celebrities as Jonathan Edwards, Bob Moncur and Peter Beardsley.

The highlight of the day was definitely when James and Ben from the Foundation managed to sneak us away from all the grown ups talking...we got to see the home team changing rooms and even got to go out onto the side of the pitch!

Spanish Fiesta!

Class 3 and 4 rounded off their 'Spain' topic work with a celebration of Spanish music, food and knowledge.
We sampled Jamon, Chorizo, Pan y Queso, Aioli and Paella.
As Class 3 had 3 birthdays to celebrate, Elaine, Mark and Harley received a rousing chorus of "Feliz Cumpleanos" before sharing their cakes with everyone.

The afternoon was finished off with a quiz where everyone got to show off how much they'd learned!

Paralympic Gold Medallist Stephen Miller

St. George's played host yesterday to a very special assembly led by athlete Stephen Miller.  As part of our work on the London 2012 Olympics, we have been focusing on the Olympic and Paralympic values of  Respect, Excellence, Friendship, Courage, Determination, Inspiration and Equality.  I think we can safely say we saw each of those values perfectly demonstrated by Stephen.

The children were in awe of his achievements - 3 Paralympic golds, Paralympic silver and bronze alongside countless world records.  We will be cheering him on if (when!) he reaches his goal of competing in his 5th Paralympic Games in London this year!