Physical Education

From Kale Vagnoni and  Mark Quinn, PE teachers

Endurance

Molesworth Street Campus

Our supplies are wearing thin, but we’ve scrounged together the ingredients required for the final push to end Term 2. Winter is in full swing, so it’s been a mixture of hunkering down in the gym and catching some sunshine between storms.

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Keep Your Eyes On The Prize

We have been focussing on throwing, using underarm, overarm and everything in between. Keeping your eyes on the prize by looking at your target has been our throwing hot tip this fortnight - there is no point in using perfect technique if you don’t know where your ball needs to go! 

Errol Street Campus

As Term 2 comes to an end we are beginning to add the final pieces to our Athletics puzzle. Almost all of our Year 3-6’s have taken part in sessions with a specific focus on out 7 Athletics disciplines;

Sprints

Hurdles 

Long Jump

Triple Jump

Shot Put

Discus

High Jump

The predictable seasonal juggle of rain, timetable changes, curriculum days, public holidays and wintery germs means a few of our classes will complete their final actions at the beginning of Term 3. As we have been telling our Seniors in class, finishing up Athletics in Term 3 is a common occurrence. This year also brings a later calendar date for our District Athletics competition, so we have until Week 4 of Term 3 to complete our disciplines, collate our data and give the tap on the shoulder to our top contenders. 

This year we will be including some of our core Health Curriculum concepts in the PE Dept Newsletter. The idea behind this is to give families a little more scope into the Health curriculum that is delivered in lessons throughout the year. These Health Hacks are designed to be a great talking point for discussions at home surrounding Health and Movement. 

Sleep: This past fortnight we have been exploring Screen Time and the negative effects it can have on sleep. We have also been looking at what is considered a healthy range of sleeping hours to aim for. For Primary School aged children it is a consistent 9 - 11 hours each night. This doesn’t always work, but is a good target to try to hit, especially when coupled with a No Screens hour or two before bedtime.

Ask your kids about Sleep Tag and what they know about lost sleep hours making life difficult. For SLEEP really is a giant, super- important factor in the health of all of our lives. So much so that we will focus on the topic again and again throughout the year.

If sleep is an issue in your home try using the upcoming school holidays as a circuit breaker to adapt to a more health-focussed schedule.