Scholarship: Basketball and Beyond Week 2

By Mr S MORGAN10th November 2022

This week, our sports scholarship continued to explore games which require hand-eye coordination. This week, they tried the dutch game Korfball. This is an interesting sport where mixed genders go head to head in a sport akin to netball. However, there is a big difference in that the scoring hoops are not on the edges of the playing area but in the middle, this means that payers can shoot from any angle.

The challenge for children this week came with Korfball’s defending rule. Once a player is being defended (or marked), the attacking player can no longer shoot for a goal. This means players much use quick sequences of passes to find scoring opportunities. Children really enjoyed this element and some pointed out that it would be interesting to try this with other sports. Great thinking children!

Noah using the space behind the post which would be off court in netball and basketball

Having being defended, this player is looking for an unmarked player in a scoring position. 

Despite not being played much in this country, Korfball is popular across much of Europe. It is unique in that men and woman are required to play on the same team. 

COMO ESTAS?

By Miss L STEWART10th November 2022

Year 4M are thoroughly enjoying learning about Spain and the wonderful Spanish language this term.  We have been practising the alphabet, drawing upon our phonic knowledge when pronouncing some of our newly learnt vocabulary and become masters of greeting each other with a Buenas dias! or an Ola! upon meeting and an Adios! or Hasta Luego! upon leaving.

Today, we have explored the question Como estas? to ask each other how we feel.

Como estas? – How are you?
Estoy bien! – I am good!
Estoy mal! – I am not feeling too good!
Mas o menos! – I am ok!

We then worked with a partner and performed a little role play to demonstrate how proud we are of our linguistic skills.

 

Muy bien chicos!

 

 

Adding and Subtracting Tens

By Miss P STATHERS9th November 2022

Year 2 have been learning how to add and subtract a tens number. They used base 10 to represent their tens and ones.

They noticed a pattern and learned the rule that when adding a tens number the ones always stay the same!

 

 

Remembrance -Lest We Forget

By Mrs D WILKINSON9th November 2022

Poppies are worn as a show of support for the Armed Forces community.

The poppy is a well-known and well-established symbol, one that carries a wealth of history and meaning with it. Wearing a poppy is still a very personal choice, reflecting individual experiences and personal memories. It is never compulsory but is greatly appreciated by those who it is intended to support.

But what is the inspiration and history behind the poppy becoming a symbol of Remembrance?

The Western Front

During WW1, much of the fighting took place in Western Europe. The countryside was blasted, bombed and fought over repeatedly. Previously beautiful landscapes turned to mud; bleak and barren scenes where little or nothing could grow.

Fields of Poppies

There was a notable and striking exception to the bleakness – the bright red Flanders poppies. These resilient flowers flourished in the middle of so much chaos and destruction, growing in the thousands upon thousands.
Year 6 have created their own piece of art work ; each one a personal symbol of Remembrance.
Browse through our Remembrance Gallery
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Some stunning pieces of art !!!
Inspired by the lesson, two children went home and created more work !!!
Thank you Jessica and Jessie.
           

Y4 PE: Outdoor Adventure Activities: Problem Solving

By Miss L STEWART7th November 2022

Y4E are enjoying our current Outdoor Adventure Activities in PE and recognising the benefits of working effectively as a team in order to solve problems.  The children have been sharing their opinions on the best way to solve the posed tasks and listening to each other to ensure that everyone feels values and included.

Here in the Bench Challenge, the children had to co-operate with each other to get themselves into height order whilst standing on a bench without touching the floor.

As you can see, the moves were tricky but the children demonstrated great TEAMWORK to accomplish the task!

In the Pen Challenge, the children had to work together as a team to place the marker pen down so that it stood up as far as possible from behind a line. Firstly the task was completed independently…

The children then had to try and better their independent measured reach by working as a Team!

We found that by reaching with support using a lever technique or wrist grip for support that their measured reach was improved.

Great TEAMWORK Y4E!

Scholarship: Basket Ball and Beyond

By Mr S MORGAN3rd November 2022

Over the next couple of weeks, our sports scholarship will be explore games linked to basket ball and really developing their hand-eye coordination and attacking and defending skills across some lesser-known sports.

This week, children played Tschouk ball – a fast-paced sport in which points can be scored at either end of the pitch by bouncing the ball off a special net and landing it in the playing zone. This game requires high levels of skill and quick thinking in oder to get to the upper hand.

Children also played handball. Requiring similar positioning and marking strategies as basketball and netball, children enjoyed this game but had to adapt their scoring and defences strategies.

Well done to everyone for your fantastic effort.

Finding ways to create scoring opportunities can be tricky in Tchoukball. 

Sharp defence was the key to winning in handball!

 

Scholarship Girls attend Women’s World Cup Opener!

By Mr S MORGAN3rd November 2022

Yesterday, the Women’s Rugby League World Cup began with England playing Brazil. As part of our sports scholarship programme, our girls went to go see the opening game at Headlingley Stadium. The match was an excellent event with a vibrant and exciting atmosphere. The game was fantastic, with England winning 72-4 in a fourteen try thriller. For the majority of our girls, it was their first every time watching live rugby and we all left he ground feeling inspired and buoyed by the growth of women’s sport and the platform it is now receiving.

Thanks for being excellent ambassadors girls, lets keep on supporting England this campaign!

Eager for the game to start! 

The opening ceremony

Celebrating England Women’s success on the way out.

Meeting the mascot, Rugbee

Our try signs got plenty of use with 14 scored 

OAA: ‘Cross the River’ challenge

By Mr S MORGAN31st October 2022

This week year 4 started their new outdoor and adventurous unit ‘Problem Solving’. This unit builds on from their year 3 unit ‘Communication and Tactics’ and requires children to work together to solve problems.

In this lesson, they had to figure out how to solve cross a ‘river’ using hoops. Each team had the same number of ‘lily pads’ (hoops) as team members and children were only allowed to stand on the lily pads. Could you solve this problem?

Once children had worked out how to solve the problem, we experimented with different equipment which meant the problem had to be solve in a more nuanced way. Well done children!

Giant lily pads required some consideration of where to stand! 

Sliding the benches required coordination and communication

Hedgehog stones were very difficult but lots of fun! 

Y4 PE: Invasion Games: Football

By Miss L STEWART31st October 2022

Y4E were able to recap and demonstrate their knowledge of the skills they learnt in Y3 last year when we began our Football lessons in our new PE Invasion Games unit this term. So far, we have utilised our knowledge of working as a team, space, dribbling, passing and control of the ball as well as attacking and defending.

Y3 JIGSAW: Being Me in My World

By Miss L STEWART23rd October 2022

In Year 3, we have been identifying our positive traits and the things we would like to achieve this academic year. From achieving a pen licence, learning our times tables, improving our running speed so that we can run faster on Sport’s Day next year to reading more books, the children all recognise that to be the best that they can be they need to practise in order to achieve their newly set goals.

In a class discussion, the children recognised that our actions often bring rewards as well as consequences and have identified the many ways that we can help each other to remain positive. We recognised that at Christopher Pickering, we receive Dojos as a reward and that our Traffic Light System is is place to manage both positive and negative actions. A range of scenarios were explored which enabled the children to work as a team to agree on the many ways we can can solve a situation together as well as to agree on the rewards and consequences that should be in place.