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VIS Excursion

On Wednesday 24 April the year 12 VET Sport and Recreation class and year 12 PE classes attended the Victorian Institute of Sport to get an insight into the training and lives of athletes who are preparing to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

We had the pleasure of meeting and hearing from Tess Lloyd who is part of the Sailing team. She gave us a great insight into her training, nutrition and recovery. Tess spoke about how she stays motivated, the importance of team work and how hard she trains to try and achieve her goal of representing Australia in the Tokyo Olympics. She then took us on a tour of the facilities available to athletes at the VIS.

At the conclusion of the tour some of our students got to experience the Wattbike- which is a stationary bike that measures your power output- to compare their peak power to elite athletes.

 

Ashleigh Holly, Leonis House Header

Year 10 HPE

Term 1 SEPEPVolleyball

During term 1, four of our eight year 10 classes have worked together to create our first SEPEP season. The competition drew to a close on the last Wednesday of term, culminating in the semi-finals and grand final matches.

Congratulations to Team 6 (Ethan Longmuir, Kevin Borgonos, Gabby Kewanian, Jok Ashweel, Jada Wani, Dominic Conci, Alessandra Di Cosmo, Ashlee Ettia, Sashka Djelic) who were the Champions on the day.

WHAT IS SEPEP?

SEPEP, or Sport Education, is a student centred approach to Physical Education which takes the best parts of community sport to enhance student learning. The philosophy behind SEPEP is for students to experience a program which mirrors “real life” sport. That is:

  • Even teams are selected;
  • Rules are modified
  • Students remain with their team for the season so that they can identify with it;
  • Results are recorded and a premiership table is kept;
  • Students take on all positions of responsibility eg sports board, captain, coach, referee in addition to playing.

The SEPEP approach promotes student participation because results matter. There is also a greater opportunity to develop game based skills, decision making and tactics.

Teams take turns to be the duty team which sets up the field and provides referees.

Peer teaching becomes a feature as students want their team to do well and help other students to succeed. There are social benefits for students through working with others in a variety of situations.

(Taken from: https://www.achper.org.au/blog/blog-sepep-revisited written by Craig Johncock access: 5/4/19)

The student referees votes on the best fairest players (male and female ) for each game every week. Congratulations to Alessandra Di Cosmo and Kent Mijares who were award the Most Valuable Players of the tournament and to Kevin Williams who was award the Sportsperson Award.