2022-2023
June
Friday 8th June - Primary Athletics
Friday 16th June - Girls Cricket Cup
Mowden’s Girls Cricket Team took part in the recent Darlington Schools Cup. They finished 4th in the morning stages, which meant they went into the 2 nd tier for the afternoon competition. They had 3 games in this group, and finished a very creditable 3rd place in Tier 2. Well done Girls.
May
Tuesday 23rd May - Boys Cricket Cup
A squad of 10 children visited Darlington RA for great day of Cricket with 7 other schools. The children were outstanding all day and didn’t lose a game. This meant they qualified for a one game Final against Abbey Primary a couple of days later at Darlington CCC. After a very competitive and tense game, they emerged as Darlington Schools
Winners by ONE run! They then had the opportunity to represent Darlington in the County Finals, but sadly this was postponed due to bad weather!!! Well done Boys, a fantastic achievement!! Thursday 25th May - KS1 Target Festival
Thursday 25th May - KS1 Target games
30 Y2 children had a fantastic day at Eastbourne Sports Complex learning some fantastic. Target Skills ran by some secondary school young leaders. The children thoroughly enjoyed. Archery and Boccia in particular.
April
Thursday 20th April - Girls Netball Plate
A squad of 8 girls visited Polam for great day of competitive Netball against 7 other teams. The competition was organised as a league of 8 so they played all the teams during the day. They had some fantastic results and finished 2nd , missing out on first by a single point. A brilliant effort by the
team. Well done girls.
Friday 21st April - Girls Netball Plate
A squad of 8 girls visited Longfield for a great day of Netball against 7 other teams. The Plate was organised as a league of 8 so they played all the teams during the day. As it was a Plate competition no results were recorded but they girls did fantastically well, winning lots of games. Well done girls.
Tuesday 25th April - OAA Teambuilding
8 Yr4 children had a fantastic day at Hurworth Secondary School learning some fantastic Team Building skills ran by their young leaders. The children definitely learnt some valuable life skills.
March
Thursday 2nd March - Girls Football Cup
Mowden’s Girls Football Team took part in the recent Darlington Schools Cup. They finished 3rd in the morning stages, which meant they went into the 2nd tier for the afternoon competition. They had 7 great games in this group, and finished a very creditable 5th place in Tier 2.
Well done Girls.
Thursday 23rd March - Boys Football Cup
Mowden’s A Team took part in the recent Darlington Schools Cup. They finished 2nd in the morning stages, which meant they went into the top tier for the afternoon competition. They had 7 competitve games in this group and finished a very creditable 5th place overall out of 16 teams.
Well done Boys.
Thursday 30th March - Boys Open Football Plate
2 of Mowden’s Boys Football Teams took part in the recent Darlington Schools Plate. They had 8 great games each during the day and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Tuesday 28th March - Boys Dance Festival
February
Thursday 2nd February - Dodgeball
A team of ten boys and girls from Year 4 visited The Dolphin Centre to take part in the Annual Darlington Primary Schools Dodgeball Tournament. They finished 2nd in the first stage, which meant they went into the 2nd tier for the next stage of the competition. In this Tier they didn’t lose a game, and finished a very respectable 5th place overall out of 16 teams.
All the children were brilliant, well done to all who took part!!
Thursday 16th February - Year 5 Futsal
Mowden’s Yr5 Mixed Futsal Team performed incredibly well at the recent inaugural Year 5 Futsal Competition organised by some QE Students and held at the QE Sixth Form College They won every single game, winning the competition, scoring some brilliant goals, and demonstrating fantastic teamwork!
Well done Team Mowden!
Thursday 16th February - Year 6 5-aside
Mowden’s 5 aside Team performed well at the recent Darlington Schools 5 a side competition held at the Dolphin Centre. They had a mixed set of results, coming up against some very well organised teams. After seven hard games, they finished 5th out of 8, winning 3 games in the process.
Well done Boys.
January
Wednesday 25th January - Table Tennis Competition
November
Tuesday 8th November - Year 5 Basketball
A group of 9 Yr5’s recently attended a basketball festival at Longfield School. Mowden played against a number of other schools, and learned some useful skills thanks to the coaches from Darlington Storm Basketball Club
All really enjoyed themselves
A massive well done, Mrs Hampson
Tuesday 15th November - Sportshall Athletics
Tuesday 22nd November - Sportshall Athletics Finals
On Tuesday 22nd November a mixed team of 30 Yr6 children visited The Dolphin Centre to take part in the finals of the Darlington Primary School SportsHall Athletics. They had qualified previously at an event the week before by winning this overall.
The children competed in both indoor track and indoor field events against 9 other schools.
They finished 4th overall on the day just missing out on a place in the medals!
Well done all. They showed tremendous teamwork and determination! Mr Garmston
October
Wednesday 5th October 2022 – TAG Rugby Boys
On Thursday 13th October, a team of nine boys went to Darlington Rugby Club for the Darlington Primary Tag Rugby Finals, after qualifying the week before at Darlington Mowden Park.
At the Finals, they competed alongside 7 other school teams, all who had qualified themselves. After playing 7 really tough games, the boys had won 5, drawn 1, and lost 1.
This meant they had the exact same record as the 2 other schools so it went down to ‘tries scored’. Unfortunately Abbey had scored 2 more tries over the afternoon so went home as winners. However we managed to claim second place overall, a brilliant effort.
The boys certainly enjoyed their day and learnt lots about Tag Rugby. They showed great teamwork and sportsmanship as well.
Well done to all those who took part, you were brilliant.
Thursday 6th October 2022 – TAG Rugby Girls
On Thursday 6th October a team of 10 girls went to Darlington Rugby Club for a great afternoon of Tag Rugby, competing alongside 7 other school teams. After playing 7 games in total, the girls finished in an amazing Second place overall!
The girls certainly enjoyed their day and learnt lots about Tag Rugby.
Well done to all those who took part, you were brilliant.
Monday 10th October 2022 - Leadership Training
On the morning of Monday 10th October ten children from Yr6 went to Eastbourne Sports Complex with Mr Garmston to do their Sports Leaders Playmakers Award.
The award involves the children taking part in leadership training that will then enable them to lead
organised sport, games and play back at school. The award does not require children to have a specific level of sporting ability as this isn’t always necessary to be able to organise and lead games. Playmakers that complete the award must be able to communicate effectively, be organised, take responsibility andwork with other people; all core skills, which are important throughout life.
The children showed some great leadership skills and great initiative!
Well done, I look forwards to working with you in the very near future to plan some amazing opportunities for our children here at Mowden.
Wednesday 12th October 2022 - Tees Valley Cross Country Finals
On Thursday 13th October 9 KS2 children represented Darlington at the Annual Tees Valley Primary Schools Cross Country which was held at Stewarts Park in Middlesbrough. They had all qualified to compete by finishing in the top 10 in their respective races, at the Darlington Primary Schools competition, held a few weeks earlier.
All 9 children represented Darlington and Mowden with pride and demonstrated an amazing amount of effort, running against the best in the Tees Valley, with each race had over 50 children in it.
We had several children in the top 20, two top 10’s (Lyla Y3/4 Girls & Riad Y5 Boys) and a winner overall in the Yr6 Boys race, Louie!!
A fantastic effort by all Runners in all teams!
A massive well done, Mr Garmston.
September
Thursday 29th September - Primary Cross Country
On Thursday 29th September 29 junior children represented Mowden at the Annual Darlington Primary Schools Cross Country. After a fabulous afternoon of running in great weather, and great amounts of determination, there were 11 children in total who finished in the top 10 in their age group, and will therefore represent Darlington Schools in the upcoming Tees Valley Cross Country Event, a brilliant achievement.
We are particularly proud of the children for being so supportive of not just their teammates, but also other year group teams from Mowden, and also other runners from other schools.
We also had some fantastic team performances. We had first places overall for the Yr3/4 Girls and Yr5 Boys, a second place overall for the Yr6 Girls, and third places for the Yr3/4 Boys and Yr6 Boys. This is a superb achievement!
A fantastic effort by all Runners in all teams!
A massive well done, Mr Garmston
.