Latest news is now shared via our Head Teacher blog which is published in the Parents section of the website. Please also visit our Twitter feed for a window into our curriculum offer and to see the purposeful and memorable learning experiences in each year group. Our Twitter feed can be accessed on the Home page of our website or by clicking on the Twitter icon in the top left corner of this page.

Please find below an archive of the news stories that we published before we started to use Twitter.

• WOW - Walk to School Challenge

  Fri 26 Apr 2019

  Throckley Primary has been chosen to be part of an exciting national challenge to encourage more children and their families to walk to school.  WOW is delivered by Living Streets, a UK charity which wants to get as many children as possible experiencing the benefits of walking to school.  WOW rewards children who walk to school at least once a week with a special monthly badge.  The school will also be providing fun incentives and prizes to help make the challenge of walking to school more exciting!   If you live too far to walk the entire way to school, your child can still participate by using the Park & Stride service at Sainsburys.  Riding your bike or scooter also counts as walking to school.

  We will be sending home more information about this new programme in the near future and we hope that many of our families will discover the following benefits when they walk to school:

  • Arrive at school refreshed and ready to learn
  • Improve the fitness of the whole family
  • Reduce congestion and improve air quality in Throckley 

  

• Summer 2019 Club Choices

  Mon 22 Apr 2019
  Please see latest news documents for details

• Y4 Cake Sale in Aid of World Wildlife Fund

  Fri 05 Apr 2019
  As part of their environmental topic and their learning about enterprise, the children in Year 4 baked lots of cakes and sold them to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund.  Their cake sale raised £54.65 for the charity which supports wildlife conservation and endangered species.  The cakes were delicious and everyone had a lovely treat at break time.  Thank you Year 4!

  

• Dance Festival at City Hall

  Fri 05 Apr 2019
  On Wednesday afternoon the Throckley Movers (our dance club) travelled to the Newcastle City Hall for their annual Dance Festival. Miss Thorpe and Miss Williamson took 27 children from Years 3 to 6 to perform their ‘Dancing through the Movies’ routine on the prestigious stage. The children have been working on this dance for several weeks and they danced beautifully with great big smiley faces for their parents and the audience. Our dancers were an absolute asset to our school and they all made Miss Thorpe and Miss Williamson very proud.  Thank you to all of the parents/carers who came to watch the dance and support our Throckley Movers!

  

• Easter Assembly

  Fri 05 Apr 2019
  The children have attended their annual Easter Awards Assembly today.  The assembly recognises and celebrates the different strengths of pupils across the school.  As well as the weekly Golden Awards, children have won prizes and received certificates for reading, Lexia, attendance, swimming and Easter Egg decoration.  The children have a had a brilliant half term and it was a very busy assembly!   Thank you to Education Network (one of our supply agencies) for donating lots of chocolate eggs.  We wish all of our families a lovely Easter holiday and we will see you back in school on  Tuesday, 23rd April 2019 (Monday is a Bank Holiday). 

  

• Cycling Progression at Throckley Primary School

  Fri 29 Mar 2019

  At Throckley Primary we believe that learning to safely ride a bike is an important life skill.  For many young people, cycling provides an inexpensive, healthy and environmentally friendly-way to get to school and to other activities.  Children across our school have several opportunities to learn to ride bikes, to develop their skills and to practice riding safely on roads in the local community. 

  Children in our school start learning to cycle when they are in Nursery & Reception using balance bikes during curricular PE.  They can then further develop their skills during lunchtime balance bike clubs when they are in Years 1 & 2.   Bikeability Levels 1 & 2 take place in Years 4 & 5, with an optional ‘Learn to Ride’ session for children who have not yet mastered riding a bike.  Bikeability L1 is delivered within school grounds and teaches basic skills such as balance and control.  Bikeability L2 takes place on quiet roads in Throckley and gives children the confidence to cycle in traffic for short journeys, such as cycling to school. 

  Newcastle City Council has received national funding to develop safe routes for cycling across the city and we want our children to be able to use these future cycle ways as confident and skilled cyclists.   

  

• Year 4 Throckley Village Group Litter Pick

  Fri 29 Mar 2019
  As part of their ongoing environmental work, Year 4 went litter picking in the local community on Wednesday. We collected twelve bags of rubbish and put it where it is supposed to be - in the bin!  Although the children were shocked by how much rubbish they found, they had a great time and even rescued some ladybirds from the litter before it was binned. To say thank you for their hard work, the doctor's surgery gave them some biscuits which they enjoyed back in school once they had washed their hands. Thank you very much to Anne Whittaker and her team at the Throckley Village Group for helping us to organise the event and for providing litter pickers for the children to use.

  

• Reception Introduction to Play Festival

  Fri 22 Mar 2019

  On Tuesday, some of our Reception children attended a play festival at the Walker Activity Dome.  The festival was a non-competitive healthy, active lifestyle event.  Children from schools all over the city joined in the fun.  Miss Sewell and Mrs Davison attended the event with the children and were so proud of how they represented the school.

  

• Newcastle Schools Achievement Awards

  Fri 22 Mar 2019
  On Thursday 21st, the Civic Centre hosted the Newcastle Achievement Awards to celebrate, amongst others, the    outstanding effort of two Throckley students. Nadine (Y4) and Yamin (Y6). Mr Reid Milligan (Y4) and Miss King (representing Miss Dockey in Y6) were delighted to see the pride of these modest children enjoying the public recognition of their achievements. Nadine has excelled in her reading thanks to her astonishing dedication; while Yamin’s determination to master his English has led to success in all aspects of his learning. What a spectacular night!

  

• PE & Sport at Throckley Primary

  Fri 22 Mar 2019
  We are very proud of our PE and sport provision at Throckley Primary School.  A dedicated team of teachers and support staff (Miss Thorpe, Mr Elliott, Mr Meyer and Mrs Cookson) work to ensure that the children have fantastic PE lessons and extra-curricular opportunities for participation and competition in a wide variety of sports.  Our school ensures that all children from Acorns to Year 6 have two active 60 minute lessons of PE per week plus 30 minutes of exercise daily through activities on the yard such as Golden Mile, football or basketball.  As part of the Greenwich Hospital housing development, our outdoor sport facilities have been expanded and improved.  This will enable us to   continue to improve the confidence, health and fitness of all of the children who attend our school.