Crew Marsh loved their treat of glow in the dark dodgeball today!!
Glow in the dark dodgeball
Category : PE
Sports week!
This year we are launching a sports week, with lots of different sporting activities across the week.
Monday – We will have a GB/Olympic athlete visiting school and putting the children through their paces.
Tuesday – Nursery Sports day
Thursday – KS2 Sports day in the morning/ KS1 Sports day in the afternoon
Friday – Fun colour run in the late afternoon
Sport for champion visit!
Due to loving our athlete visit last year and the year before ….
I am excited to announce that we have an athlete visiting school Monday 1st July 2024.
Children should come home with a sponsor form tomorrow (Friday 17th May), sponsor forms are due in Wednesday 19th June 2024.
Sponsor forms should be handed in to class teachers or the office.
This is a great opportunity for the children to meet a GB/ olympic athlete and raise money for school at the same time, as soon as we know who the school athlete is I will share the news.
In excitement of this, we are going to do a dress down in your sporty gear on Friday 24th May with a voluntary contribution of £1.
Rounders!
In our PE lesson today, we have worked on our batting skills. We made sure we were stood sideways on in front of the bowler. We also made sure we watched the ball so we could time our hit. We continued to work on our underarm throw because this is a super important skill in rounders. We enjoyed playing a mini game of rounders to practice everything we have learnt so far.
Y5/6 intra-Rounders tournament
Rounders Skills
Today, Crew Hamill explored the skills required to play a game of rounders. We watched a video on what rounders actually is and chotted down the main rules of the game. We then looked at our focus for the lesson – throwing and catching. We watched demonstrations of an overarm throw and an underarm throw and discussed the need for each of these during a game of rounders. We identified that an overarm throw would be required when throwing over a long distance and an underarm throw would be better if the person we were throwing to was closer to us. Following this, we went into the hall and began our warm up activities in which we practiced bouncing a ball and catching it and throwing a ball above our heads and catching it. We were challenged to make this even trickier by clapping whilst the ball was in the air, before we caught it. After this, we got into pairs and had a practise of our overarm and underarm throwing. Once we were more confident in this, we got into mini crews of 4 and practise passing the ball around the square whilst one of us ran around the posts, like a batter would. We then made this even tricker by placing a hoop in the middle of the square. One person stood in the hoop and threw out a number of tennis balls for the rest of our crew (fielders) to collect whilst we tried to run around all 4 posts to get a rounder. We can’t wait to develop our skills further and put them into practise with a full rounders game later in the term!
Scotties
In our Scotties session this week, Mick really worked us hard to make sure we saved the castle. We had to do a variety of different exercises before we got there. We were tired by the end of the session but it was good to move our bodies and work our muscles.
Rounders
In PE today, we continued to work on our skills needed for rounders. First, we warmed up by practicing our underarm throw. We remembered that we had to step forward with our opposite leg so we are balanced. We had to make sure we were ready to catch the ball by looking at our partner with our hands out ready. Then, we did the exact same but practicing the overarm throw. Again, we had to use the opposite foot when setting forward and make sure our throwing elbow was in line with our shoulder. We then discussed what a “no-ball” is in rounders. The umpire calls no-ball when the bowler bowls the ball too high (above the head), too low (below the knee) too wide (out of the batting square) or too close (no ball body). We then had a mini game to put all the skills into practice. We had a bowler, batter, back stop, umpire and some fielders. We really enjoyed todays PE lesson and can’t wait to continue to practice these skills next week.
Safari dance
In our dance lesson today we created a crew safari dance, we looked out for the different animals that we might see when going on safari and how they might look and move. We are getting so good at counting to 8 in our head so we are all time!
Crew MW – PE
In PE this week, we have been looking at fireworks and how they move. We listened to a sound clip of fireworks exploding and said that they make big shapes in the sky as well as being sparkly and loud.
We created movements for the words ‘bang, crackle and fizz’ and listened carefully for Miss McGlone to shout these words as we moved to a piece of firework music around the hall. Every time we heard a different word, we had to change the action to match the word.
We then created a group movement piece to represent a firework. We started by standing close together as a group wiggling our fingers to show the firework fizzing and cracking as it shoots into the sky. We then turn around and spread out, standing with our feet apart and arms stretched out to show the firework exploding!
