Two New Awards

31st August 2015A Gill

School Achieves Healthy School Status

We are pleased to have had our Healthy School Status reaccredited. In order to achieve this standard the school is assessed to have an effective curriculum along the line of four criteria.

  • Personal, Social and Health Education including sex and relationships and drugs education. It provides young people with knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes to make informed decisions about their lives.image001
  • Healthy Eating includes healthy and nutritious foods being made in school canteens and available in schools as well as enabling young people to make informed decisions about healthy food.
  • Physical Activity encourages young people to do physical activity as well as being given opportunities to be physically active. It helps understanding on how physical activity can make people healthier and can improve life as well as being part of it.
  • Emotional Health and Well-being, including bullying, how to express feelings build confidence and emotional strength.

We say a special ‘Thank You’ to Mrs Kilner, our Healthy School Co-ordinator for supporting us through this process. Our new plaque is displayed proudly in the school’s main entrance.

School Achieves Silver Sports Award

We have now achieved the silver School Games Mark standard. This accreditation builds upon our Bronze Mark achieved in 2014.

What is the School Games Mark?

The Sainsbury’s School Games Mark is a Government led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Schools in England are able to assess themselves across bronze, silver and gold levels of the Mark.

silver games logoWe say a special ‘Thank You’ to Mrs Wakinshaw, our PE and Sports Co-ordinator, for supporting us through this process. You can now see this logo proudly displayed proudly on our school letterhead.

School Achieves Artsmark Status

18th August 2015A Gill

Hedworth Lane School has clinched a top award for creative work. Staff and pupils at Hedworth Lane Primary School, in Boldon Colliery, are thrilled at being awarded Artsmark status. 550x336_fitandcrop

Artsmark is a nationally-recognised scheme to encourage schools to celebrate the arts. Run by Arts Council England, Artsmark status shows pupils, parents, governors and the wider community that the arts are really valued in the school. Joanna Scott, art co-ordinator at the school, said: €œThis is only the beginning of our Artsmark journey. From here we hope to implement all of the recommendations made to us and ensure that we have an organisation that continues to hold the arts and cultural awareness in high esteem.€

artsmarkAs well as the overall Artsmark for the school, a group of young artists, who worked with their teacher each week after school, have achieved their individual Arts Awards. The six pupils researched the work of both local, and international artists, created a portfolio of work and pieces of finished work of a very high standard.

Angela Tennet, arts award class teacher, said: €œAll six students achieved individual Arts Awards at the Explore Level. All six are now committed to the bronze level of study this year. €œWe are delighted to have such enthusiastic and committed students.€

Headteacher Tony Gill, added: €œWe work hard to ensure our curriculum is broad and ARTSMARK_BLKbalanced here at Hedworth Lane School. The arts, including drama, dance, music and singing, offers an opportunity for all pupils to excel and achieve high standards.€

Pupils at Hedworth Lane School achieve Artsmark status. To find out more click here.

Jamie Oliver teams up with Hedworth Lane School

20th July 2015A Gill
  • Pupils in Year 4 and Year 5 learnt how to cook and make healthy lifestyle choices with the community outreach team at Sunderland Football Club. To find out more click here.

School Football Team vs The Police Squad Seven

20th July 2015A Gill

For the second year running, the football team at Hedworth Lane Primary School faced the police on the football field. After arriving with their blues and twos to the cheers of the watching children, the match soon kicked off. Hedworth Lane, in their new kits, kicked off the match. Plenty of tackles, the odd football crime and a prison load of goals later, the children were victorious. Captain, Nathan Batey, said, €œPlaying the police is a great way to end our season; it was so much fun!€

Pupils explore coal mining heritage.

20th July 2015A Gill

At Hedworth Lane Primary School we are proud of our Mining Heritage, Arts co-ordinator,     Mrs Scott secured a grant so that we could invite a local artist to school and create a piece of artwork associated with coal mining. We invited Dylan€™s granddad into school as his job was with the mine rescue team. He told us all about the dangers of being a pitman. Together with the local artist we created a display piece of miners tags. Each pitman was assigned a number which appeared on a metal tag that was taken off a board by the miner as he entered the mine and replaced on the board when he exited the mine. This let the company know how many pitmen and who they were that were in the mine at any given time. With the help of Mr Ross, who used to be a pitman, we placed this display at the entrance to our school.

Choir sing at Citizenship Ceremony

20th July 2015A Gill

Our school Choir, made up of children from Year 5 and Year 6 pupils, performed at theIMG_0202 Citizenship Ceremony within the South Shields Town Hall. We were asked to choose two non-religious songs. So we chose one traditional local tune and a song penned especially for the occasion by Andrew Richardson, our talented school pianist. Pupils also had to perform the national anthem at the end of the ceremony. We met the Mayor, Fay Cunningham, who made us feel welcome. The people who became British Citizens thanked us too. We felt very proud.