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“Welcome to our happy school, where everyone is valued and given the opportunity to ‘let their light shine.’ With Jesus in our hearts, we encourage love and respect for all. We strive to reach our goals, as we learn, and grow, in a safe and enjoyable environment.”
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Mrs Eve Alderson, Headteacher
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What a great day to celebrate girls football with over 80 of our girls taking part in football activities today. A great effort by all. Well done girls! #8MarchWomensDay #LetGirlsPlay pic.twitter.com/q6yHsCs4Jq
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We have one more week to go in this Spring Term and the children are still working incredibly hard. A huge well done to all of our certificate winners this week. We wish all of you a lovely weekend.
In Year 1 today we have been learning that we are all entitled to bodily privacy. We have been learning the PANTS rules.
What a lovely surprise visitor we had today in school! Father Godric, who is a Benedictine Monk came to see his old school with Father Saji. He chatted to staff and pupils and told us he was one of the first pupils at St. Matthews’s school around 70 years ago! He loved coming back to see how school has changed and he shared lots of his good memories of his school days and his teachers! It was lovely to meet him!
Another two great performances by the boys in the league tonight - where there remain unbeaten. A solid 3-0 victory in the first game with Joey braking the deadlock; a sweet strike into the bottom left hand corner by Pete and an incredible volley into the right hand corner by Jamie. ![]()
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The second game saw the boys win 6-0 with goals coming from Joey x2, Jamie x2, Johnny and Pete. A great team performance and I think the boys were glad to be back on the 3G.![]()
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Again a special mention and thanks to Davey and David, who are so patient, fair and encouraging to the boys. We really do appreciate it. 👍⚽️
Another eggcellent event run by our FOSM - Friends of St Matthew’s Jarrow team. We can’t wait to see you all 👍 🐣 🥚Date for your diary! 🎉![]()
Following on from the success of last years hunt, we’re bringing it back, bigger and better! 🐣🍫![]()
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Tonight, the boys team played their very first matches in the Alan Grimes Trophy - they qualified after winning the Bart Rippon Trophy in November. Playing on a very overgrown pitch, the boys displayed great resilience and determination to progress through to the next round. Well done boys! 👍👏
In today’s art lesson Y4 have been experimenting creating structured relief patterns in clay using everyday objects from around the classroom. Brilliant effects achieved- well done.
Y3 have been using their observational and drawing skills to create simplified images of flowers inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintish. Well done class- another super lessson developing your skills.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing mothers and grandmothers of our school community. We especially think of those special ladies who are no longer with us ❤️![]()
We hope you all have a lovely day. 💐
☘️☘️Happy St Patrick's Day! ☘️☘️![]()
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming some of our Irish Dancers to the stage, where they showcased their incredible talents and treated us to a special St Patrick's Day performance. ![]()
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A huge thank you to Nancy, Jasmine, Harriet and Hollie, who danced brilliantly in front of the whole school. ![]()
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We also wish Jasmine and Nancy the best of luck, as they head off to the World Championships in Canada in a couple of week. ![]()
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We hope you enjoy their super performance!
What can we say about our Reception superstars? They led a special Mother's Day Liturgy beautifully this morning. They read confidently and shared how thankful they are for the wonderful ladies in their lives. Thank you all for attending. We hope you enjoyed it and we hope all of our mothers, grandmothers, aunties and all those who show great love and care to our pupils have a lovely weekend.
A big thank you to Mr Thompson for coaching our Y5/6 tag rugby players this afternoon. The progress within the hour was huge. We're hoping for a drier week next week to spend more time training in preparation for an upcoming tournament.
A great week of work from all of these wonderful children. They certainly deserved their certificates this afternoon. Well done, everyone!
For Science Week 2023, Year 5 enjoyed learning all about fingerprints and using sellotape and pencils to put their own fingerprints in their book. They then wrote about what patterns they could see and compared their fingerprints with their peers. We had a class discussion all about fun facts about fingerprints. 😀👍👨🏼🔬👩🏻🔬
For Science week 2023, Year 1 have been exploring the connection between temperature and water. We used different substances to melt ice to free toys that had been frozen.
Year 2 had a great time at the cricket festival this morning and showed off some brilliant skills! We had some tired children on the way back! ![]()
It was great to catch up with Noel and Joe - as well - two of our lockdown superstars from Y9. You were both brilliant! Well done, boys! 👍👏
Today we received confirmation that our swimming team set a new South of Tyne record in the canon relay. What a great team effort. Well done St Matts! #recordbreaker 🥇
Over the next few weeks Y6 will be learning about the works of figurative artists and how the human form can be represented through sculptural pieces. Today they used the Internet to research information and make mind maps of key vocabulary to strengthen their knowledge of visual art terms and to look at the works of Henry Moore, Juan Munoz and Alberto Giacometti. Finally they used tinfoil and sculpting techniques to create these fabulous simplified figurative sculptures inspired by the works of Alberto Giacometti. Well done Y6 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
For Science Week 2023, Year 3 used paper cups and string to investigate how sound waves travel.
We are delighted with the success of our swimming team, who achieved 3rd place 🥉 overall in the South of Tyne Swimming Finals this afternoon. The children were swimming against schools from across Gateshead and South Tyneside and they won medals in a range of different events, culminating in a team gold medal in the final relay of the afternoon. What a great performance from Charlotte, Ellie, Leah, Ruby, Frankie, Eddie, Daniel and Jamie. South Tyneside School Sport Network. 🥇🥈🥉
We would just like to say a big thank you to Mrs Mole, who has spent time with Year 6 and Year 3 children this afternoon on an exciting new art project, which is to make a new mural for the library. Working alongside our FOSM - Friends of St Matthew’s Jarrow, each class will have the opportunity to work on this project over the next few weeks. We can't wait to see the end result.
Here’s some more photos from Year 4’s fantastic science week investigation! We had lots of fun making a battery from lemons!
Year 4 were top scientists for Science Week yesterday! The theme was connections and Year 4 had to investigate making electrical connections with circuits! They learned how to make a simple circuit and add in a switch to control it. Then we investigated further! Can you make a battery out of lemons 🍋? We connected our lemon 🍋 circuit to light up an LED light! We had lots of science fun! Well done Year 4!
For Science Week Reception became super scientists observing the changes and using scientific vocabulary to say what they could see happening during our Rainbow Investigation 👩🔬👨🔬🌈
Year 1 and 2 completing their daily mile for The Big Walk. Please sponsor us by visiting-![]()
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Year 2 are combining their Maths and Computing lessons to learn about pictograms and block diagrams. They are amazing at answering questions using data.
Year 2 enjoyed researching what different animals need in their habitats to survive. They created diagrams of the animals in their habitats. A great start to Science Week!