Red Nose Day 2013

Primary 2 and Mrs Dass worked very hard this year to organise Red Nose Day.  They had their Assembly the week before and told us what Red Nose Day is all about and the reasons for raising money for this. 

 

On Red Nose Day there was a sale in Primary 2's classroom - everyone had been asked to bring in toys / books etc that they no longer played with and these were sold so that other people could play with them.  There was not a single thing left at the end of the day - which is amazing when you look at the amount of things for sale in the morning! 

Here are some photos of Primary 2's Assembly and the sale on Red Nose Day:

Slideshow - Red Nose Day 2013

St Andrews School raised £791.89 altogether - well done everyone, and especially well done to Primary 2 and Mrs Dass.  Thank you!
 

Health Week - 4 & 5 February 2013

It seems a long time ago now but we had a special two days earlier this term, where all the classes were mixed up and spent time in different classes.  Primaries 2, 3 and 4 were mixed up so Mrs Kirkness, Mrs Dass and Ms Rendall had completely different classes!  The theme of the two days was friendship and we did a variety of activities to help us understand this better.  It was fun to have everyone working together and helping each other.  Some of the activities we did were:

• working in groups to make our own Punch and Judy show where Punch and Judy had a fight and someone helped them become friends again;
• everyone writing one nice thing about everyone else which meant we all had a very long list of nice things about ourselves;
• working together in small groups to solve problems, for example we all closed our eyes and held hands and then had to work together to untangle ourselves and make a circle.

Click on the link to see our slide show which will let you see some of the things were were doing:

Slideshow - Health Week 2013

Football training

We have been lucky this term to have football training for 6 weeks.  We have been learning lots of new skills including dribbling, passing, controlling the ball and shooting.  It is very tricky to keep control of the ball!  We had to play football outside on Tuesday this week because the stage is set up in the hall - it was VERY cold!

Please take a look at our photos to see what we have been doing:

Slideshow - Football fun

Rubgy in all weather!

Bruce has been coming to St Andrews every week for the past 5 weeks to teach us how to play tag rugby.  It is a lot of fun and we have to go out in all different weathers - even if it is snowing!  We have been learning about passing, defending, swerving, diving, dodging, side-stepping, catching and holding the ball, scoring a try, rolling passes, tagging each otherand running onto the ball when someone passes to you.  There is lots to remember!  Please check out our slide show to see us in action:

Slideshow - Rugby

Sport Education

We have finally started Sport Education this term, and are learning to play frisbee.  This is a slightly different way of learning to play sports, where we are more in charge of what we are learning and how we improve our skills.  These are some of the most important bits about sport education:

• We work in teams of 4 or 5, so everyone takes part and gets to play;
• We all have a special job that we have to do - the jobs are warm-up coach, coach,  manager and equipment manager;
• When we are not playing a game we act as time keepers, referees, score keepers and lines-people.

There are different partss to a sport education lesson.  These are:

1. We work in our teams to warm up;
2. Ms Rendall gives us some advice on the skills we need to work on;
3. We work in our teams to practice the skills we need to improve;
4. We play the game.

This is a video of one of our warm up sessions - the warm-up coach is responsible for leading this session and letting us know what we have to do.

These videos shows us working together to try to improve our skills - we are working on throwing and catching the frisbee.

 

 

 

One of the most important things we are learning in sport education is that everyone should be able to take part, and that this is more important than winning.  It is also about sharing our skills and helping others if they are finding something tricky.  We are also learning about more than just how to play a game because we have different jobs that we need to do as well as playing the game.

 

These videos show were taken when we had just started our sport education sessions - keep watching for updates on our progress, and do let us know if you think we are improving!

Children in Need

Mrs Kirkness and Primary 3 did a fantastic job of arranging activities for Children in Need again this year and organised lots of different activities for everyone to take part in.  Some of the activities included:

fun games and competitions

wearing our pyjamas to school

face painting

bake sales at break times

getting our photos taken with Pudsey

karaoke

We are really proud of ourselves at St Andrews Primary because we raised £728.21 altogether!  This was a fantastic total - well done and thank you to all the staff and parents who helped!

Have a look at some photos that were taken -
Children in Need slideshow