Congratulations to Josh Blevins in Year 7 and Lucas Sutherland in Year 11, who are both North Tyneside Cross Country Champions after winning their respective age events last Friday at Churchill Playing Fields. Both have now qualified for the County finals next year.

Both boys were presented with a pair of Newcastle United tickets, along with Peter Whitehouse (Year 8) who has demonstrated sporting excellence throughout the year. The tickets were generously supplied by Show Racism The Red Card after our recent charity day.

In other sporting news, a select group of Year 9 boys have been taking part in a boxing programme with Northumbria University, our Year 8 rugby team recently took part in a festival in Ashington, our badminton teams are going from strength to strength and our Year 11 A team came 4th in the North Tyneside table tennis championships, with the Year 9 B team finishing a creditable 6th.

For more information, keep checking our Sports page or follow @mardenPE on Twitter. Well done to all who took part in all events.