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Physical Education

Building children’s engagement and enthusiasm for physical activity is vital for their wellbeing.

Daily physical activity promotes a healthy heart, healthy mind and healthy body.

Being active is easy and can be as simple as gardening, taking the dog for a walk or going ten pin bowling with the family. This year we will continue to promote the importance of physical activity through PE and through the Premier’s Be Active Challenge, a program for all South Australian children. At the end of the challenge, what better way to be rewarded than with a medal to take home and keep, not to mention a fitter, healthier you!  More information about The Premiers Be Active Challenge will be provided at a later date.

This semester, children will continue to develop and refine fundamental movement skills and increase levels of fitness, through cooperative games, exploring different sports and involvement in a fun, functional circuit style of training. Functional circuit training provides strength, mobility and stability to thrive in their daily lives and participate in sports.  Children will learn basic movement patterns like pushing, pulling, squatting, walking and running.

They will be given opportunities to apply strategies to participate with others in physical activities in a safe and fair way, learning to follow basic game rules successfully. Children will regularly engage in warm up sessions, promoting and learning the importance of stretching before and after physical activity.

New skills will be explicitly taught and promoted through game based activities, with a focus on object control skills. Children will develop their gross motor skills through various ball sports involving throwing, catching, kicking and rolling. They will also engage in various types of locomotion such as, skipping, jogging, hopping, galloping and jumping.

Throughout the semester children will be involved in sporting clinics, explicitly teaching children skills that can be implemented and developed throughout the year.

Children have been busy getting off to a great start, establishing learning agreements and building on teamwork and sportsmanship. With our annual Sports Day coming up at the end of Term 1, Friday 29th March we are busy practising the tabloid events, ensuring children can feel confident, successful and participate with enthusiasm on the day. Sports Day supports children to build confidence, foster communication between peers and learn important social skills like turn taking, sharing and encouragement in a safe, supportive environment.

Children are reminded to wear suitable clothing and footwear to all PE lessons to ensure their full participation.

Our Reception PE lessons are  Monday  R7 and Tuesday M6 and R8.

Amy Byrnes Early Years PE

Amy.Byrnes464@schools.sa.edu.au

German

In our weekly German lessons, students use language in context through familiar routines, games, songs and repetition.  They exchange greetings and information making connections between English and German.  This semester will be an introduction to learning German including the concept of where we are in the world and where German is spoken. There is a high component of oral interaction in our learning experiences.  

At our whole school assembly in week 11, the reception children will be presented with a German ‘Schultüte’, a traditional gift received by children when they start school in German.

Please encourage your child(ren) to tell you about what they have been learning in German. See what they can teach you!  

(Frau) Libby Edwards (R-4 German)

Elizabeth.Edwards559@schools.sa.edu.au 

Science

We have had a great start to Early years science with the Receptions settling in well to school. The first two weeks of term have been used to focus on building strong connections to set up positive relationships for the year. We have been encouraging students to collaboratively work together in lesson times to get to know their peers as well as share and discuss observations and ideas.

Each class has a double lesson of science per week, the focus for the first term is on materials and their physical and observable properties. Linking with the Australian Curriculum strand of Chemical Sciences, students will have the opportunity to predict, observe and question to then share conclusions and observations. We will be planning tasks’ that allow students to sort and group materials and investigate their use in everyday life. 

Miss Maddy will be teaching R7 (Tuesday) and M6 (Monday and Wednesday) Science and Mrs Pagonis will be teaching R8 Science (Thursday).

We look forward to sharing our learning with you and we are very excited to help all students be successful throughout 2019.

Maddy Hicks and Voula Pagonis.

Maddy.hicks696@schools.sa.edu.au

Voula.pagonis555@schools.sa.edu.au