The Resilience Project

Gaga Ball

 

In Term 2, the year 6s went to camp at Mt Evelyn where we discovered a new sport called GaGa Ball. GaGa ball is played in an octagon shaped pit normally with sand as a base and played with a soft ball. It’s a type of dodgeball in which 15 people try to hit the ball with your palm trying to get others out. It starts with 3 bounces like most sports with words corresponding with each bounce: Ga, Ga, Ball!. You are eliminated when someone hits the ball into your legs, below the knees, or by hitting the ball out of the pit. The ball can only be hit once unless you have rebounded it off one of the walls or just got someone else out.

  

When we got back from camp, everyone was talking about how fun it was to play and how they wished that it could come back. So we knew what we had to do and talked to Mrs Dunstone. We went to her office daily, making rosters, posters, and rules. It took lots of thinking, trying to work out the placement of the pit. Eventually, we settled on the pit being placed in front of the Junior Playground. The first day that we released the pit, almost every Year 6 was in the pit collectively chanting GA! GA! BALL!