Author Archives: Miss L STEWART

This term, Year 5 are revisiting and building upon their previously learnt skills in the beautiful game of Football. This week’s lesson saw the children revisiting and demonstrating the skills of dribbling, passing with the aim of maintaining control of the ball.

From this, we went on to play various ‘3v3v3 and 6v3’ games where both attackers and defenders had to draw upon and utilise the skills and knowledge they have acquired from playing football in previous year groups.

Great resilience, determination, teamwork and respect was shown throughout our lesson today…Well done Year 5C!!!

 

 

In P.E this term, Year 5 we have been incorporating both counter balance and tension balances into our Gymnastic routines. With our P.E partner, we built upon and practiced our routine each week using different apparatus.  To add complexity to our balances, we rehearsed different ways to move out of a counter balance to a counter tension balance on both high and low level apparatus.  Using both canon moves (where we transitioned from one move to another individually from our partner) and unison moves (where we transitioned at the same time as our partner), we created routines which incorporated a range of balances.

Counter balances incorporate a pushing force

Counter tension incorporate a pushing force

 

Here are a few of our complex routines in pictures

 

Year 3 have taken on a Mindful approach to our Yoga sessions with Mrs Cobby this Spring term.

The children have revisited, built-upon and perfected many of the Yoga poses we have practiced in previous year groups, as well as practicing some new ones…here are just a few:

The children really enjoyed ‘Dance Yoga’ too whereupon when the music stopped they had to strike a pose with a suggested letter of the alphabet!

We have also practiced our Mindful Breathing by practicing our ‘Box-Breathing’ skills alongside our ‘Havening Touch’ and ‘Shark Breath’ techniques, which are all relaxation techniques that aim to calm both our bodies and our minds. To end each session, the children adopted the ‘Lotus’ position whilst listening to the calmful, reverberating sound of the ‘singing bowl’.

Namaste…and THANK YOU Mrs Cobby!

Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed getting to grips with our new hockey equipment in this Spring terms unit of Hockey.

We have focused on the core skills of how to hold the hockey stick in order for our own safety and that of others; dribbling in order to keep possession of the ball;  ensuring that we remain aware of attackers and keeping control of the ball when changing direction, as well demonstrating our knowledge of making an accurate pass to maintain possession in a game.

Once we had mastered all of our knew skills we put all of our new knowledge into practice and played some mini hockey tournaments.

Well done Year 3…Jolly Hockey Sticks!!!

Year 3 were introduced to the game of Netball today in P.E with the focus on the passing and receiving of the ball so as maintain possession.

After practising the passing and receiving of the ball utilising the chest-pass, we moved on to working as a team with the aim of creating and using the space around us effectively. Once we had developed our chest pass, we moved into a 5v1 game whereby the attackers had to create the space to pass the ball effectively before being intercepted by the defender.

Great TEAMWORK and ball skills YEAR 3!