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

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!

3D shape investigations

We have been investigating 3D shapes this week.  We have been learning more about cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, prisms and pyramids.  We have been learning about the edges, faces and corners of these shapes, and were able to use what we had learned to build our own 3D shapes.

                                      

It was tricky to get our shapes exactly right but we managed it!  Now we know much more about 3D shapes.