Rounders Skills

3rd May 2024Laura Hamill

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

2nd May 2024Kate Thompson

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

2nd May 2024Kate Thompson

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

29th April 2024Lauren Marsh

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

24th April 2024Sarah Mcglone

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!

The lost toy dance

23rd April 2024Lauren Marsh

In our PE lesson we have enjoyed creating our own dance thinking about toys in a toy box. We have got very good at counting in our heads to make sure we are all in time and doing it together.

Crew MW – PE

14th April 2024Sarah Mcglone

In PE we have been looking at the skills needed for dance. In our first session, we listened to different sounds from the seaside and talked about what they were. We created different actions for: a beach umbrella opening, waves, digging in the sand, and an ice cream! We counted to 4 whilst doing each of the actions before moving on to the next action, starting to count to 4 from the beginning each time we changed action. We were lucky enough to perform our final noisy postcard to the children in Crew Marsh!

In the next session, we focused on creatures that lived under the sea. We moved around the hall as different sea creatures, listening carefully to the instructions on when to change to another creature. We then created actions for: an octopus, a shark, a stingray, and a seahorse. We practised using the actions and movements as we moved around the hall. Our favourite was definitely the shark!

Scotties

29th March 2024Ruth Shields

Mick really put the children through their paces this week as they completed their last session fo the Spring term. They were running, doing star jumps, planks and walk out. I imagine they had sore legs afterwards.