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Last night 37 students from Y7 and 8 took part in Burnside Inter Form Cross Country Championship. All student demonstrated a positive attitude throughout and there were some exceptional times and performances. This will hopefully be replicated at the up and coming North Tyneside Cross Country Championships.

Peter McGillan and Andy Evans led the race from start to finish and couldn’t be separated in a sprint finish, so were awarded joint first place. Millie Fenton was the first girl and also came third overall. 7I and 8R won the Year 7 and Year 8 form competitions respectively. Well done to all student and staff involved.

If you would like to get more involved this sport or running in general ,please speak to Mr Lloyd or Mr Gilbert about Cross Country Club.

Top 20 positions
=1st Andy Evans 13:40
=1st Peter McGillan 13:40
3rd Millie Fenton 15:22
4th Elliot Pilling 15:49
5th Millie Trenholm 16:27
6th Keiran Mennie 16:31
7th Alex Baxter 16:37
8th Cobi Lewis 16:38
9th Leo Bradley 17:15
10th Damon Dunn 17:28
11th Joshua Craig 18:07
12th Cole Middler 18:10
13th Jordan Patterson 18:19
14th Corey Hodgson 18:20
15th Callum Jamieson 18:21
16th Jack Clark 18:21
17th Leah Donaldson 18:49
18th Scott Barker 18:53
19th Toni McGillan 18:57
20th Sonny Ho 19:16
21st Lennon Evans 19:18

Year 7 Form Competition
1st 7I 105 points
2nd 7C 100 points
3rd 7U 67 points
4th 7E 65 points
5th 7N 22 points
6th 7B 10 points

Year 8 Form Competition
1st 8R 79 points
2nd 8I 64 points
3rd 8B 59 points
4th 8S 41 points
5th 8D 19 points
6th 8U 15 points

Last night Burnside U13 boys played St Mary’s School at Wallsend RFC. Due to injuries, unavailability and other sporting commitments Year 8 was unable to field several of its more experienced players. However Captain Jay Jabari and fellow Wallsend RFC player Daniel Johnson were able to recruit several new players from Year 8 this week. Debuts were handed to Damon Dunn, Cole Middler, Jake Greener, Pat Buasari, Jack Woods, Glenn NCube and Alex Ryan Kerr.

In the opening half Burnside were beaten 5 tries to 1 by a more experienced and heavier St Mary’s team. St Mary’s played some really good rugby, driving Burnside off the ball and showing some good handing skills to move the ball into wider areas. Burnside showed great resilience and continued to defend hard throughout.

In the second half the floodlights were turned on and this seemed to inspire Burnside’s play. Although St Mary’s scored a further 3 tries Burnside scored 2 more themselves, Jay Jabari scoring both.

Final Score: Burnside 3-8 St Mary’s

At the end of the game both teams came together to chat to Wallsend RFC coaches with several Burnside players intending to train with the club next week.

Team:
1. Jay Jabari
2. Kieron Liddle
3. Alfie Freeth
4. Cobi Lewis
5. Damon Dunn
6. Cole Middler
7. Jake Greener
8. Daniel Johnson
9. Pat Buasari
10. Jack Woods
11. Lewis Collins
12. Glenn NCube
13. Alex Ryan Kerr

Burnside’s year 7 and 8 Girls football team had their first ever game against St Thomas More school on Wednesday night. The team lost 12-0, however, they showed a fantastic attitude throughout and kept trying until the final whistle. Man of the match Abby Fidler made some fantastic saves and kept the team positive right until the end.

Our next game is away to Valley Gardens Middle School on Monday

On a wet Thursday evening Burnside’s U13 rugby squad travelled across the city to play Kenton School’s U13/14 rugby team.

Despite not playing together since July, Burnside began the match with quiet confidence having had plenty of opportunity to refine their passing and contact skills in PE lessons over the previous 5 weeks. However a better drilled Kenton team quickly stole possession from Burnside through counter rucking and scored a break away try in the right corner after 3 minutes. 5-0.

Straight from the resulting kick off, Burnside attacked deep into Kenton’s half with some great running from Cobi Lewis who despite his smaller stature, was able to find gaps and offload in the tackle superbly to supporting team mate Kieran Liddle who beat two defenders to score. 5-5

The next 10 minutes were a poor spell for Burnside, conceding three quick tries. Kenton were playing well, showing far better support play- getting to the breakdown more quickly and turning over possession. 20-5.

Burnside regrouped and the team set themselves two targets; improved tackle technique- focusing on forming the ‘ring of steel’ and running more directly when in possession. This refocusing had the desired effect as Burnside played their best rugby of the match with the score being brought back to 30-25 with just under 5 minutes to play.

Sadly the fight back ended there with Kenton scoring a further 2 tries to put the game out of sight. In almost the last play of the game Kieran Liddle scored the final try of the game bringing his personal tally to four.

Final score Kenton 40-30 Burnside

The match was played in excellent spirit throughout and at the end of the game players smiled and shook hands. Despite being bruised, battered, cold and soaking wet both teams were thoroughly looking forward to a rematch later in the term.

There were several candidates for Man of the Match; Captain Nathan Gray led his team well on debut, Matthew Robinson made some excellent carries before injury overcame him and Jay Jabari ran so hard he literally had opposition players bouncing off him.

In the end though 2 ‘Men of the Match’ were selected; Kieran Liddle for his superb running and try scoring feats and Sonny Ho for his fearless and technically good tackling, bringing down much bigger opponents with ease.

Nathan Gray (c)
Kieran Liddle
Alfie Freeth
Jay Jabari
Daniel Johnson
Nathan Emson
Matthew Robinson
Cobi Lewis
Henry Suter
Dillan Hood
Conor Purcell
Alex Baxter
Jack Newton
Sonny Ho
Try scorers: K Liddle (4), M Robinson, J Jabari

Next tournament is Thursday 2nd November @ Wallsend RFC 3.30-6pm

Gardeners at Burnside have spent this half term very busy in the school grounds. Some of our pumpkins have been harvested this week and we have already harvested apples, crab apples, rosehips and blackberries. We have planted hyacinths for Christmas, daffodils for Mothers’ Day and onions and garlic for next summer. After half term our environment group will reseed our wild flower garden to help encourage bees into our orchard. Well done to everyone who has taken part.

Churchill 2-2 Burnside

Burnside under 12s started their league season with a tough first game away to Churchill. Despite going behind twice, two goals from Josh Patterson helped to earn a well deserved point with both assists coming from man of the match Kieran Mennie. 3 outstanding saves from Adam Kain kept Burnside in the game in the second half. Excellent start to the season with our next game against John Spence after half term

Last night over 20 year 7 boys attended the rugby team trials. Some great individual skills and fantastic commitment from all- putting bodies on the line.

Next rugby trial session will be Wednesday 1st November, 3pm-4.15pm. All year 7 players welcome.

On Wednesday 18th October staff and students from primary schools across North Tyneside came to Burnside to compete in the North Tyneside Year 5 Indoor Athletics Competition.