Y4 COMPLETE PE: TENNIS AND YOGA

By Miss L STEWART30th March 2023

Anyone for Tennis?

Throughout the Spring Term, Year 4 have thoroughly enjoyed building upon their knowledge of Tennis whilst developing strategies in order to win a game against an opponent.  Through practice, the children have been perfecting their control of the racket whilst demonstrating their forehand and backhand techniques. as well as developing their knowledge of space and where best to serve the ball in order to score points against their opponent opponent.

Mindful Yoga

We have also thoroughly enjoyed our weekly Yoga lessons with Liesel in our Drama studio and perfecting the moves which we learnt in Year 3, as well as learning and practicing new skills and moves. Liesel helped us to adopt a better understanding of our core strength and energy fields and also taught us breathing techniques that we can adopt and utilise in any given situation such as square breathing, shark breathing and star breathing.  The Havering Touch  was a new technique that the children learnt this term, which is another strategy that we (children and staff) can draw upon to make us feel calm, relaxed and safe. In total, the children have learnt 34 Yoga moves which  they have been happy to share and demonstrate and in doing so are well on their way to becoming Yoga experts!

Thank you and Namaste Liesel!

 

Y4 Tennis – Final Week

By Mr S MORGAN27th March 2023

This afternoon was Y4’s final week of tennis! Mr Morgan’s class put everything into action which they had learned over the last 6 weeks into lots of singles games. 6 ‘central’ courts were set up with random pairings playing head to head for 2minutes at a time. Around the central courts, rally stations were set up. By the end of the hour, over 180 individual games had been played! Well done for working so hard over the last half term, it was great to see everything come together today.

The future of Wimbledon?

Autumn and Hannah battling it out.

Freddie demonstrating an excellent backhand return and recover.

Y3 YOGA WITH LIESEL

By Miss L STEWART7th March 2023

We in Year 4 are loving, and look forward to our weekly Yoga lessons with Liesel in P.E. From practising easier poses such as the ‘Table, Cat and the Downward Dog’ to the more complex moves of the ‘Warrior 3, Dancer and Camel’, we are now working towards making our movements more fluid so that each pose flows into another.

We have been having a little fun exploring Yoga with Music this week…something which we really enjoyed!

 

 

 

To end the session, Liesel taps the ‘Chau Gong’ so that we can concentrate on the soundwaves and ground ourselves at the end of a session.

 

Namaste Liesel!

HUB PE

By Mrs H HEBDEN2nd March 2023

Team Games

We worked well as a team to pass and score within the baskets.

 

We considered making the most of space and how we can defend our basket from the other team.

We had fun and enjoyed playing this game in the sunshine!

Netball Club

By Mrs H HEBDEN27th February 2023

This years Netball Club have enjoyed training together tonight.  Here are some fab shots from tonight’s mini games!

YEAR 3 JIGSAW HEALTHY ME!

By Miss L STEWART26th February 2023

In this Jigsaw Piece, the children in Years 3 are exploring the concept of making healthier choices…

In Year 3 we began by discussing the importance of exercise and the benificial effects it has on our bodies, our hearts and lungs.  Before participating in star jumps, burpees, boxing moves, dancing and a little jogging on the spot we felt and measured our resting heart rate then compared it with our elevated heart rate after we had exerted ourselves! We found that whilst exercising our heart beats faster to pump the blood around our bodies and that our lungs work harder to take in more oxygen.  In addition we identified that exercising, whilst tiring, actually makes us feel good!

We then explored the suggested statement ‘Children need to be active for at least 1 hour a day’ and recorded/calculated the typical average timings of the regular activities we all participate in throughout the school day every day:

Walk to school –  10 minutes
Walk up and down the stairs at school  throughout the day – 5 minutes in total
Playtime – 15 minutes
Lunchtime – 1 hour
Walking home from school – 10 minutes

Our findings found that we certainly excel the suggested 1 hour of activity from the activities we undertake in a typical school day but as this is only a suggestion we can go on to do more if we so wish.

We then went on to explore the concept of calories, fats and sugars within the food that we eat and how these can affect our health. Firstly, we identified how we can make healthier choices by swapping out certain foods with something considered to be healthier:

Chocolate – Fruit
Icecream – Plain Yogurt
Crisps – Rice Cake
Muffin – Plain Popcorn

We explored a range of food packaging to identify the calorific values (energy) fats and sugars of some food types and noticed that the traffic light coding on packages makes these easier to identify…

We then played the ‘How Much Sugar Game?’ and tried to match a specified amount of sugar with one of the food items presented…it was not easy!

 

Once the amounts were revealed we were amazed to find that there are…

35g of sugar in an energy drink
22g of sugar in a bowl of chocolate icecream
17g of sugar in a flavoured yoghurt
8g of sugar in a plain biscuit

We all agreed that whilst we find lots of food items rather yummy, that we can try to make healthier choices and keep some of those foods which have lots of sugar, fats and calories in as a sometimes treat. Great work Year 3!

 

PE Year 5 Tennis

By Mr J SUTTON23rd February 2023

Year 5 have really enjoyed the start of their new unit in PE. They have really focused on developing their forehand and enjoyed a competitive game situation using the skills improved in their lesson.

Year 2 PE – gymnastics

By Amy JEFFREY10th February 2023

Over this half term, Year 2 have enjoyed their gymnastics lessons in PE. We have learnt how to construct a controlled roll, balance and jump. Once we were confident with these, we began linking the movements together and ensuring our sequences flowed well. To progress our gymnastics abilities even further, we went on to carry out these elements on apparatus. We observed each other’s sequences and gave constructive ways forward to one another.

Y4 Games: Invasion: Netball

By Charlotte Ewen26th January 2023

Y4E…(and Miss Stewart) are thoroughly enjoying developing and applying their netball skills in P.E this term. The children have been refining the skill of passing and receiving the ball utilising the ‘chest-pass’ firstly with a partner then in a 5v1 possession game with a defender to create a little pressure.  In practicing and utilising their knowledge of space, the children have further worked upon the skill of moving the ball up the court with a view to creating a shooting opportunity into the net of a real goal. We have recently introduced the position of Goal Shooter (GS) in our mini-games of 5v5 Flier Netball with a view to including the positions of Goal Keeper (GK), Goal Defence (GD) and Goal Attack (GA) as we progress further.

       

Yoga

By Mrs K SMITH19th January 2023

Year 3 are loving our new PE unit for this term.

We are taking part in yoga sessions with Liesel. We have the opportunity to exercise our body and minds.

Through our sessions so far we have practised yoga positions we know and found out how to do new ones. We have practised positions such as the table, ragdoll, downward dog and rabbit. We have really enjoyed learning some new ones, so far we have tried the camel and the sailboat. Some of these positions are really tricky and they take lots of practice and balancing.

We have also enjoyed lots of different breathing exercises. So far, we have enjoyed shark breathing and box breathing. We love how these can make us feel calm and relaxed.