St Mary's Catholic Comprehensive School

St Mary's is a highly successful 11-18 Catholic school with around 900 students on roll.  Students come to St Mary’s from a very wide range of primary schools in Newcastle, North Tyneside and beyond.  Every year, they also admit some students from overseas.  It is located in Benton Park Road, Long Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7PE

The College has 5 table tennis tables along with the required nets, bats and balls to make it an ideal site for inclusion in the Premier League 4 Sport scheme. Newcastle United Football Club through their charitable arm Newcastle United Foundation and in partnership with the English Table Tennis Association and Cramlington Table Tennis Club are managing the project.

The goverment has provide funding for a table tennis coach to provide coaching and support to pupils of St Mary's School during out of scool hours.

The ETTA coach is also providing coaching at 3 other local schools. Currently (January 2009) the required hall and table tennis equipment at St Mary's is not available at a time when the coach is not otherwise occupied. Discussion is taking place to see whether a solution can be found. When the problem is resoved pupils will be invited to participate in an after school club on immediately after school.

More information on the Premier league 4 Sport scheme visit the PL4S page.

Current position

Year 2 of the Premier League 4 Sport project commenced in the new School year 2010-2011 with the first session commencing on Wednesday 22 September 2010. The sessions commence after school at either 14.45 hours or 15.15 hours on alternative weeks. The start time for 22 September was 15.15 followed by 14.45 on 29 September and alternating on a this regular pattern for following weeks.

At the eighth session on 24 November 2010 a total of 20 different pupils attended at various times with the total number of attendances being 53. St Marys has the best uptake by girls with 20% (4) 28% (15) of the number of attedndances being attributable to girls.

 

More news will be added to this page as the after school sessions continue.