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Physical Education - Junior School Snapshot (Term 2)
In our junior Physical Education classes, we focus on developing fundamental movement skills and building physical literacy through exercises like squats, lunges, star jumps, push-ups, and planks. These activities help students enhance their body control, strength, balance, and coordination key components of the Personal, Social and Community Health and Movement and Physical Activity strands. Through these exercises, students learn to move safely and confidently, develop fitness skills and begin to understand the importance of regular physical activity for a healthy and active lifestyle.
In junior Physical Education, students are learning how to perform a chest pass and bounce pass as part of developing their fundamental motor skills, particularly in object control helping students improve their coordination, accuracy, and teamwork. By learning to chest pass with correct technique students build confidence in applying their skills in game situations, while also developing important skills such as communication, cooperation, and spatial awareness.
In junior Physical Education, learning to play Four Square helps students develop a range of fundamental movement and object control skills within a fun, inclusive game setting. Four Square encourages students to practise hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and reaction time. Four Square also promotes important personal and social skills, such as turn-taking, playing fairly, following rules, and cooperating with others.
Four Square is a playground game where 4 players compete in a marked square, using a ball to hit and move between squares. The goal is to stay in the game and advance to the highest square, The King while trying to get other players out.
The rules of 4 square
The King always starts the game by serving.
The player in the square where the ball lands must hit it into another square using their hand.
The ball must be hit and bounce first into the player’s own square before it can bounce into another square.
Players move up to the higher ranked square when another player gets out.
Players who are out move to the end of the waiting line.
The Player coming into the game must start at the lowest square - Dunce
A player is out if they:
If they catch or hold the ball.
If they bounce the ball more than once in their square - known as a double bounce
If they don't hit the ball before it bounces twice.
If they hit the ball directly into another square - known as “on the full”
If they hit the ball out of bounds.
If they fail to hit the ball.
We have had great fun in PE this Term so far!
Library News
Library club is absolutely glorious! I love how excited the students are to visit for half of lunch play to sit and read, to themselves and to each other! I think Ellie and Anika got a kick out of me telling them how much I loved hearing them read. It was lovely!
Book Club - there is currently another Book Club running. I did not send catalogs home as I don't want to inundate you! If you are interested please access via the LI.
https://mybookclubs.scholastic.com.au/parent.aspx
Books from issue 3 went home last week with students and hopefully were a hit! I enjoy reading the catalogue to see what's new and what fits into each age bracket and to dream of new books for the library! Part of my job in the library is helping the students find a good book but also to perhaps choose something that isn't always in their 'wheelhouse', reading different things really helps elevate our reading and sometimes they even find something new they like or a new author to explore!
This week a Stonnington Library book, Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet was an attempted return. It's with me safely on my desk, so please reach out if you're missing it.
Wednesday is library day! Happy Reading over the long weekend. Miss Kat