Physical Education: Blog items
Nursery Go Up with a Whizz, Bang, Pop
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 2:43pm
Nursery have been learning all about fireworks and have got very sparkly in the process! We have been practising our mark making skills to create some wonderful firework pictures, made some star soup outside and created some firework sparklers.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 11:31am
In PE this week, Reception have been learning how to throw, catch and kick a ball.
They began with a warm up, understanding how their muscles need to be warmed up before they start any type of sport or exercise.
Next, they threw balls to each other then kicked them carefully using good control.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 8:37am
This term Arcons are focusing on developing their running, jumping and balancing skills during PE.
Acorns enjoyed balancing and moving along the benches in different ways, including sideways, backwards and crawling.
We explored running back and forth between coloured hoops with quoits.
We even brought our physical activities into our outdoor area with new climbing equipment and had great fun.
PE also enables pupils to explore and develop waiting and turn taking skills.
Date: 28th Oct 2024 @ 4:51pm
To finish off our Ballet workshop, Year 3 invited people from home to come and watch them in action. They were very excited to show what they had learnt including, spotting and jumping. The children even showed off their Stone Age dance that had linked to our History topic. We incorporated key facts from our History lessons about how people from the Stone Age lived and created key movements to represent these facts.
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 2:53pm
It's amazing how much learning the children can take from one activity! This week we have been using small coloured animals to practise our counting. But, at the same time, the children also developed their fine motor skills by using tweezers, sorted objects by colour and learnt to share and take turns with their friends!
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 2:44pm
Everyday at Nursery, the children have lots of opportunities to develop their fine motor skills, Strengthing their finger muscles is essential in supporting a good pencil grip. The children all love messy play and this week they discoverd some bears stuck in jelly! They had to rescue the bears, but weren't allowed to use their hands! We supplied tweezers and spoons and the children had a wonderful time rescuing the bears and made their finger muscles stonger all at the same time!
Date: 29th Sep 2024 @ 10:36am
Acorns have been exploring PE on a Thursday afternoon. We have been developing our transitions to and from the dance studio for a new activity and continuing to build our weekly routines.
This term's PE focus is exploring and developing our throwing, catching and kicking skills. We also incorporate gross motor skill development and opportunities to develop turn taking skills.
We have had lots of fun exploring our new activities in the dance studio.
Year 3- Ballet performance at the Globe Theatre.
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 4:47pm
In Year Three we had a really exciting trip! After completing more lessons with the Royal Ballet teachers on Wednesday, we went to The Globe Theatre to watch Junior associates and members of the Royal Ballet school perform! Year Three were really inspired by these children and loved seeing how much they could spin and how high they could jump!
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 3:04pm
The children have really enjoyed listening to the story "Owl Babies". It's a great story for resssuring those who might be a little unsettled that mummy or daddy will always come back and get them, The children have been practising counting by making three owls to go on tree. They have been building their fine motor muscles by collecting worms for the owls to eat and have created some super owl art work.
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 2:52pm
Every Thursday,Nursery enjoy a PE session with Mr Ratcliffe. Not only is this great for thier physical development but it also supports their communication and langauge development as they listen carefully to instructions and then follow them. The children are also learning to take turns with their friends and to develeop their self-control by waiting for their turn.
Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 7:28am
This week in PE, pupils in year 5 have been working on their passing and teamwork skills. In this lesson we talked about the skills and techniques needed for good, accurate passin in basketball. After a few practice drills, the pupils used their passing to work as a team in a game situation.
Nursery Let Me See Those Funky Fingers
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 2:22pm
It is really important for the nursery children to have stong finger muscles to support a good pencil grip. There are always lots of opportunites for children to develop these muscles in continous proviosn both indoors and outdoors.
This week the children have been using tweezers to catch worms for the owl babies - it's very tricky as the worms were very slippery! Outside the children were investigating sunflowers. They pulled the petals off, mushed up the leaves and carefully pulled apart the middle of the flower. The children are goinfg to have the biggest finger muscles in town by the end of the year!
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 11:53am
Year Three loved having teachers and a live musician visit from the Royal Ballet School. Each week the children will have lessons to teach them key ballet skills. The enjoyed doing a reverence and learning a port de bra. Next week we will be going on a trip to watch some of the Royal Ballet students in action.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 9:05am
This half term in PE, we are focusing on Gymnastics. This week we recapped the balances we learnt in Year 1 as well as some of the rolls: teddy bear roll, pencil roll and egg roll. We spent time practising each one and trying to perfect them.
Nursery Are Forever Blowing Bubbles
Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 4:36pm
Bubbles are never far away in nursery! They have so many benefits for the children and they absolutely love them! The chidlren have to learn to wait their turn and also learn self-control so they don't pop the bubbles when it's not their turn! The act of blowing bubbles is a super way for the chilldren to explore the different shapes they can make with their mouths ready for making different letter sounds. Popping the bubbles encourages them to move their bodies in different ways.
Date: 11th Sep 2024 @ 1:04pm
Today we began our unit on Invasion Games. We discussed different types of sports that invloved working as a team for a common goal. We then looked at dribbling in basketball and footbal and practised both of these skills.
Date: 9th Sep 2024 @ 4:11pm
This week pupils have begun their PE unit of invasion games. Invasion games includes a wide range of sports, such as: football, hockey, basketball and rugby, where a team tries to score in the other team's goal whilst preventing the other team from scoring. This unit is being led by an external coach, so there are extra adults to support and guide the pupils. In this lesson, pupils worked together to score by stealing treasure from pirates (defenders).
Year 6 - Sports and Picnic at Stanley Park
Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 10:40am
Today we took our Year 6 children for a fun-filled morning of sport at Stabley Park. The rain just about held off enough so that we could enjoy ourselves. A picnic together rounded off the great morning!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 12:27pm
Nursery had a super sports stay and play. We invited the children's families in to take part in some sports activities with their children. We had a penalty shoot out, balancing bean bags, egg and spoon race, an obstacle course and target practise. We all had a wonderful time.
Acorns - Supertato and Health week
Date: 30th Jun 2024 @ 5:40pm
Acorns have been celebrating Health & Well-Being week this week through a variety of activities. Firstly, our very successful interactive sports session which we all loved. Our sensory story was Supertato. We loved listening to the story and exploring the Superveggies!! We had a selection of vegetables to touch, smell and taste before matching them to the correct cards. We also made fruit kebabs and loved tasting a variety of fruit and strengthening our fine motor skills, threading the fruit onto skewers. We counted potatoes and vegetables during maths and even made our own Supertato art work. We finished the week off wearing bright and sporty outfits and developing some turn taking skills during our activities.
Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 7:43am
Today we were visited by the coastguards who gave us a talk on water safety and how to stay safe when we are at the beach. Advice included what to do if we find ourselves in trouble in the water and what to do if someone we are with finds themselves in trouble.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 4:48pm
Nursery enjoyed exploring oranges and lemons this week. They squeezed and squeezed until all the juice came out and then made some delicious fruit cocktails. They had to learn to take turns with the squeezers and did really well waiting their turn.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 4:36pm
As part of the whole school Health Week, Nursery read the story "Handa's Surprise" and talked about all the deliccious healthy fruit Handa has in her basket. We then tasted pineapple, mango, avocado and pomegranate (Mrs Welch couldn't find a passion fruit in Aldi!). The children loved describing the fruit and said "It's so sweet". "It's juicy" "It's slimey" and "Yuk! I don't like that" when they tasted avocado!
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 3:41pm
What a fab week we've had! Not only has it been Sports Day this week, but we researched Paralympian Kadeena Cox, played rounders, had British Vault champion Izzy come in and speak to us, played wheelchair rugby and learned about sea safety from people are the Coastguard.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 2:52pm
Year 3 had an amazign Sports Day. They split into groups and carouseled around the playground, completing 8 different stations. The children behaved brilliantly showing all the characteristics of a great sports person: team player, resilience, perseverance, supportive and determined to just name a few. It was brilliant to see so many parents and carers out in the sunshine supporting their children. A great morning was had by all!
