Dance club are looking forward to the upcoming Dance Festival being held at the Sage in March this year.

The theme this year is 'Festivals and carnivals from around the world' and we are busy working hard to practise our dance 'The Drive Carnival'.

We have been given an afternoon performance slot - details to follow soon! Thanks

Obviously with the recent weather all Primary football in the authority has been posponed. It is expected the leagues will begin again later this half-term or at the beginning of the next. More details to follow when available. Mr Connor.

The Drama Club and the School Choir are working together on a production based on the Easter story. The acting sessions are taking place on a Thursday after school as usual, and the singing sessions are on a Monday lunchtime. The children are working very hard and are very enthusiastic about the work they are doing.

Calling all dancers!

The Friday Dance Club will be getting prepared for the annual Gateshead Dance Festval to be held at The Sage on 10th March.

This exciting festival will see many schools from across the region displaying dances in the theme of Around the World and Through the Ages.

We are asking our dancers to bring along any ideas they may wish to share with us to develop our routine and of course their enthusiasm for putting on a fabulous display!

So put on your dancing shoes and ... let's go dancing!

Miss Atkinson and Mrs Henaghan

The football team have had a great start to the new year. We have played against Falla Park and Lingey House and played exceptionally well in both matches. The boys and girls really have given a great account of themselves and hopefully with more training and dedication we will progress even further this year. A great start everyone, well done and keep up the hard work! From Mr Connor.

The school football team played a match against Falla Park last Thursday and came out with a superb 2-1 victory with goals from Matthew Harding and Martin Summersett. The whole team played excellently, with some particular impressive performances from Mathhew Harding and Joe Currie - well done boys! Mr Connor and Miss Brand are proud of you all!

ALSO!!! We played a 5-a-side tournament last month and reached the semi-final, which has yet to take place - so we look forward to that!

On Sunday 16th March 2008 five children from The Drive's running club took part in the Sport Relief Mile at Saltwell Park Gateshead. Despite it being a freezing cold day, all of the children had a great time and managed to raise money for Sport Relief. The exact amount raised is not yet known - Watch this space!!
They also met Jonathan Edwards, the Olympic silver medallist in the triple jump, as well as a very tall cricketer.

The school Netball team took part in a cluster tournament at Heworth Grange this half term. The girls played excently and prooved themselves to be highly skilled! The two teams played against teams from two other schools and came third out of five. The star of the show had to be Courtney Harding who scored an amazing goal! Well done Courtney!

Five children from year 4/5 have been learning to play the Recorder. To recognise their determination and talent for music they have been lucky to recieve a Clarinet or Flute. The children are attending regular music lessons with Mr Barker and are desperate to perform! We will let you know the date of their first performance!

Here at The Drive we run a breakfast club each morning between 8.15 a.m to 8.45 a.m. and all the children are welcome. We offer a very healthy breakfast for the small cost of 50p per person per day. Children can choose from a variety of cereals, yogurts, freash orange or fruit juice. Children can watch T.V. as they eat there breakfast providing a relaxed environment. Once breakfast club is finished children are looked after in the hall until school starts at 8.55a.m.

Mr Gardener's running club recently took part in the Gateshead schols cross country races at Gateshead stadium. Although none of the club won, they all thoroughly enjoyed the event -even though the weather was terrible! There were a total of 88 runners in the boys event and 88 in the girls. The results were:

Girls
Anna Cummins 7th
Rebecca DeCristofaro 13th
Lauren Smith 22nd
Boys
Martin Summersett 42nd
Matthew Harding 43rd
Jamie Orton 75th

Mr Gardener was very proud of all the runners and is hoping to enter the team in other races in the near future.

Mr Connor just wants to say well done to all the football players who took part in the John Hird Cup recently! They got to the semi-finals and were narrowly defeated on penalties by St John's! He is very proud of them all and they did extremely well! Well done to everyone!