Physical Education News

Term 2 - 2023

Term 2 provides our students with a variety of interesting and challenging activities incorporating many of the Fundamental Motor Skills (FMS) used in bouncing a basketball and hitting a ball with a Single Handed Strike.

Winter Inter School Sport begins in Term 2 with three teams from Grade 6 representing our school in soccer, netball girls, mixed and tee ball. Our football team played a one off game V Corpus Christi and won the right to represent the Footscray District in the Division Finals early in Term 3. Winter Sport games usually begin between 12.00 to 1.00pm on a Friday and all children involved have been provided with a fixture with specific starting times and venues for each week.

The children in Grade 5 will focus on the same games in an Intra School format at school and local reserves.

Some of our middle and senior children will also be participating in the Maribyrnong Division Cross Country, which is to be held at Brimbank Park on Wednesday 31st May. Information regarding this event will be sent out to participants via Compass two weeks prior to the date.

Physical Education

• Grades Prep - 1/2 will be working on the FMS of Bouncing using basketballs of varying size and the Single Handed Strike incorporating various drills, activities and ball games with a bat tennis bat and tennis ball, which require increasing degrees of difficulty.
• Grades 3/4 will be working on FMS of the Continuous Bounce with a basketball and Single Handed Strike using both the forehand and backhand with a bat tennis bat and tennis ball. The use of minor games and drills will make up a large proportion of the activities incorporating these skills.
• Grades 5/6 will also focus on the FMS of the Continuous Bounce and Single Handed Strike using the forehand, backhand and volley. The focus of the drills and games will be of an appropriate standard and challenge to their age and development with the emphasis on performing skills under pressure and in game situations.

Stratos Tzanoudakis