St Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary School
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St Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary School is in Dunston
in Gateshead
. The school motto is 'A joyous heart is more easily made perfect than one which is cast down'.
The school was built in 1882 as a voluntary aided primary school and was for many years the Parish Mass Centre before the present church was built. The buildings are set on a corner of Ellison Road adjacent to the Gateshead Garden Festival
site.
The school has 114 pupils, from reception to year 6, and five permanent teaching staff.
The children in the school are split into 4 houses:
The children earn house points for good behaviour and compete against the other houses in sports. Every week certificates are handed out for special contributions to the school and for good behaviour. At the end of the year the members of the house that has the most points get certificates. There are also awards for children that attended schools clubs and who have excellent attendance.
In 2006 a basketball team including Bradley Syron and Jet Yau won a local Basketball contest. The Head teacher of the school is called Mr Leckenby and the Deputy Head is called Mr J Hattam. Other Teachers include Mrs Grunert, Ms Irving and Mrs Oswald.
Dunston, Tyne and Wear
Dunston was originally an independent village on the south bank of the River Tyne. It has now been absorbed into the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in the English county of Tyne and Wear...
in Gateshead
Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. It is named after its largest town, Gateshead, but also spans the towns of Rowlands Gill, Whickham, Blaydon and Ryton; suburban areas include Felling, Pelaw, Dunston and Low Fell.It is bordered...
. The school motto is 'A joyous heart is more easily made perfect than one which is cast down'.
The school was built in 1882 as a voluntary aided primary school and was for many years the Parish Mass Centre before the present church was built. The buildings are set on a corner of Ellison Road adjacent to the Gateshead Garden Festival
Gateshead Garden Festival
The Gateshead Garden Festival was the fourth of the United Kingdom's five National Garden Festivals. Held between May and October 1990, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, it lasted 157 days, and received over three million visitors. Attractions included public art displays, a Ferris wheel, and dance,...
site.
The school has 114 pupils, from reception to year 6, and five permanent teaching staff.
The children in the school are split into 4 houses:
- St AidanAidan of LindisfarneKnown as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria , was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England. A Christian missionary, he is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. Aidan is the Anglicised form of the original Old...
- St CuthbertCuthbert of LindisfarneSaint Cuthbert was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop and hermit associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, at that time including, in modern terms, northern England as well as south-eastern Scotland as far as the Firth of Forth...
- St BedeBedeBede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
- St OswaldOswald of NorthumbriaOswald was King of Northumbria from 634 until his death, and is now venerated as a Christian saint.Oswald was the son of Æthelfrith of Bernicia and came to rule after spending a period in exile; after defeating the British ruler Cadwallon ap Cadfan, Oswald brought the two Northumbrian kingdoms of...
The children earn house points for good behaviour and compete against the other houses in sports. Every week certificates are handed out for special contributions to the school and for good behaviour. At the end of the year the members of the house that has the most points get certificates. There are also awards for children that attended schools clubs and who have excellent attendance.
In 2006 a basketball team including Bradley Syron and Jet Yau won a local Basketball contest. The Head teacher of the school is called Mr Leckenby and the Deputy Head is called Mr J Hattam. Other Teachers include Mrs Grunert, Ms Irving and Mrs Oswald.