Educación Física y Salud
Swimming
After an incredible effort from all our teacher and staff in the past three weeks, Newlands students have successfully completed the 2022 swimming program with success! From Foundation to Year 6 students, they had opportunities to learn and demonstrate fundamental movement and safety skills in the water. More experienced swimmers participated in activities in which they had to propel the body on the front and back using freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke and demonstrated sound breathing.
Moreover, most Year 6 students passed the assessment on water safety skills and received the Victorian Water Safety Certificate on their last day of swimming! Congratulations to all our students for their engagement and amazing effort! ¡Buen trabajo!
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In the last four weeks, our students in Foundation and Year 1 have learned several habilidades para patear (kicking skills) using different parts of the pie (foot) and balls. The had the opportunity to participate in individual activities in which they had to use the inner part of the pie to kick the ball with accuracy. For example, patear softballs into a soccer goal and hitting some targets. They also worked cooperatively in small groups and passed the ball to each other using both pies.
For two weeks, we had the privilege to have the visit of two coaches from AFL Victoria, who taught us how to patear a footy ball and handballing. Our students had many opportunities to improve their hand/foot coordination through different activities. They greatly enjoyed some of the games such as “Footy Ninja” and “Angry Ogre”. Moreover, we explored how rules contribute to fair play and give meaning to games.
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Our Year 2 and 3 students have also really enjoyed the visit of AFL Victoria to Newlands for two weeks. In these grades, the focus was on refining the habilidades para patear (kicking skills) and do marking while static and in movement. Students were encouraged to reflect on their habilidades para patear and idenrify and demonstrate ways they could perform patear more successfully. Also, they modified the elements of effort and distance to patear softer/harder towards a target.
Following the AFL program, we started to practise offensive and defensive strategies in minor invasion games. There were opportunities for students to plan and perform strategies to be successful in tag and dodge games. They worked cooperatively with team members to take over the opponent side of the field. Likewise, the opposite team used verbal communication to plan different strategies to defend a “treasure”. Our students are loving these activities so far and it will only get better until the end of the term!
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At the end of term 3, students in Years 4, 5 and 6 chose badminton and soccer as the sports to focus on in this term. They have been practising speacialised movement skills related to these sports such as de derechas (forehand), de izquierdas (backhand) and smash stroke in badminton and pasar (passing), controlar (controlling) and driblar (dribbling) in soccer. In badminton, they had opportunities to adapt basic tennis skills to a smaller raqueta (racket) and different object (shuttlecock). Despite badminton is an indoor game, our students did very well while practising ourdoors and most of them could play a rally using a net.
Currently, we are learning a few offensive and defensive strategies in soccer. This provides many opportunities to improve our communication skills and teamwork. Our students are learning how move into an open space (when and where to run) and effective passing options (who and when to pass). Likewise, defenders are encouraged to use one-on-one defense in modified and adapted soccer games. Moreover, we are discussing the impact of rules modification to make the games more inclusive or challenging by changing equipment, rules or scoring options. Our students are loving this learning unit, especially since the Would Cup just started!
