PE & Sports Update
Sport & PE Update
It’s been a great start to PE lessons this week with lots of fun team activities with a little bit of friendly competition thrown in. Keep an eye on the windows in the gym for updates on records for some of our activities.
There is lots of different Sports activities booked for this term and details will be forwarded to relevant year levels but some highlights include:
Level 6 Interschool Sport kicks off in Week 3
Level 6 Swimming- Week2&3
Level 3&4 Hockey Day- Feb 24
Level 1&2 Gymnastics- Feb 24, Mar 3, 10 & 17
Level 5 Wheel chair basketball- Feb 26
VIS athlete visit- Level 3,4,5- March 6th
Junior & Senior Cross Country- Mar 19
Senior House Athletics- Mar 30
Running Club
Running Club will be back again for another year. Starting on Tuesday 17 February at 8:30am in the parklands across the street, students from level 1 to Level 6 can join us for our weekly fun running and games sessions.
Please note the change of day from previous years as it is now on a Tuesday. Please make sure your child checks in with Mr Jenkins when they arrive and parents are more than welcome to stay and watch and ensure junior students make their way to class at the end.
Why be active?
- improved cardiovascular fitness (heart and lungs)
- maintenance of a healthy weight
- improved posture
- better sleep patterns
- increased self-esteem and confidence & chance to make friends & build social skills
- improved concentration & relaxation
- building stronger bones and muscles
- improved balance & flexibility
- development of skills
What type of activity:
1. Endurance develops when kids regularly get aerobic activity. During aerobic exercise, large muscles are moving, the heart beats faster, and a person breathes harder. Aerobic activity strengthens the heart and improves the body's ability to deliver oxygen to all its cells.
2. Improving strength doesn't have to mean lifting weights. Instead, kids can do push-ups, stomach crunches, pull-ups, and other exercises to help tone and strengthen muscles. They also improve their strength when they climb, do a handstand, or wrestle. Muscle strengthening and aerobic exercises like running, jumping, and hopping, also help build strong bones.
3. Stretching exercises help improve flexibility, allowing muscles and joints to bend and move easily through their full range of motion. Kids get chances every day to stretch when they reach for a toy, practice a split, or do a cartwheel. Dance, yoga, and martial arts, like karate, are examples of flexibility activities.
How much activity?
- Moderate to vigorous physical activity:
recommend children and young people do at least 60 minutes each day of moderate to vigorous physical activity that makes the heart beat faster. More is better.
- It doesn’t have to be a full 60 minutes at once – several shorter sessions through the day work too.
- At least 3 days per week, children and young people should incorporate vigorous activities and activities that strengthen muscle and bone in the 60 minutes.
- Muscle-strengthening activity
As part of the 60 minutes of daily activity, recommend children and young people include muscle and bone strengthening activities 3 days per week, like:
- Running, climbing, swinging on monkey bars, push-ups, sit-ups, lifting weights, yoga.
- Light physical activity
Children and young people should also do several hours of various light physical activities each day. These can include:
- walking to school
- walking the dog
- going to the park with friends
- helping around the house
- playing 4 square.
Darren Jenkins
Sport