P.E.

P.E. Report

• Major focus for all year levels is on learning, participating and having fun. TPSR (Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility) will be implemented and continued across years 3-6.
• Our Preps will spend the first few weeks in our Physical Education Start up Program. This program will involve an introduction to Sport and Physical Education with an emphasis on outlining rules and expectations and fair play.
• Students in grades P-2 will be focusing on The Fundamental Motor Skills. We will cover under arm and over arm throwing, catching, kicking, bouncing and running and leaping using hurdles.  The emphasis will be on using the correct technique required to perform each skill.
• Once the skills have been learnt the students will participate in Fundamental Motor Skill circuits using different types of innovative equipment to further develop the above Fundamental Motor Skills.
• Students in grades 3-6 have started a unit of work on Invasion Games. Our focus this term for our grade 3 and 4 students is basketball and AFL football. We are fortunate to have a number of SEDA students on board to help all the students in years 3-6. We will be covering the basic skills of dribbling, shooting, defending, attacking and set plays in basketball and kicking, marking, hand balling and positions in football, whilst challenging those students with prior basketball and football skills.
• Our focus for our grade 5 and 6 students for term one is netball. Once again we have been fortunate to have students from SEDA to teach our students the fundamentals of netball.
• The students in all grades were then given the opportunity to participate in modified games of basketball, football or netball within their classes.
• We have had our Oatlands Swimming trials at the Noble Park Pool for 2020. We had approximately 190 students attend. As a result of these trials we had 29 students who qualified to represent Oatlands P.S. at the Edwin Flack District Trials. Once again our students were exemplary and performed exceptionally well and were victorious on the day. Oatlands came home with the shield after competing against 8 other schools in our district. We then had 21 students representing Oatlands and the Edwin Flack District at the Casey North Division swimming trials. Once again our students were fantastic and showed exemplary talent and sportsmanship. Twelve students have now qualified to compete at the Southern Metropolitan swimming trials to be held on Thursday 26th of March. Training has been ongoing for these students before school hours on a Monday and Wednesday morning at 7.00am.
• Preparation will begin for our annual Cross Country Carnival which will be held in term 2 of 2020.
• Team teaching is proving to be successful with the double grades working together.
• Planning, organisation and evaluation of the Physical Education Program has been enhanced due to the enthusiasm and collaborative ideas from all three Physical Education teachers.