Physical Education: Blog items
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 10:09am
This week in PE, we continued with our Net and Wall Skills unit. We learned the basics of volleyball and the different ways in which to get the ball over the net. We also learned how to serve and then played some mini games.
Date: 15th Nov 2023 @ 8:50pm
Today we began our dance unit - The Haka. We watched different performances of the Haka and discussed the history behind it. We learned that The Haka is a ceremonial Māori war dance or challenge. Haka are usually performed in a group and represent a display of a tribe's pride, strength and unity. We performed the first 15 seconds of the dance in unison and made sure that we could all follow the movements in time and synchronised. Over the weeks we will add parts to the dance until we have learnt the entire routine.
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 8:05pm
Nursery celebrated Firework Night with a big bang! The children explored the different sounds fireworks make and used their bodies to become fireworks! They used their imaginations to create firework patterns on special scratch paper and explored a firework sensory tray. Outside, the children all sat round a bonfire and drank pretend hot chocolate. The children also explored changes by melting chocolate to create some breadstick sparklers - they were delicious!
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 12:44pm
We have been exploring the parachute in nursery. This is a great way to support physical development and build realtionships with each other. We are starting with simple games to learn how to use the parachute and we will slowly intorduce more games.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 11:28am
Nursery have a had a very spooky time this week. We have had lots of halloween activities to support our social and emotional development, our communication and language and physical development. The children have been mixing their own potions, exploring how to get halloween objects out of ice and counting legs on spiders. There have also been some very messy activities that have encouraged the chidlren to talk about what they can see, smell and feel.
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 8:40pm
This half term, we are doing Gymnastics during our in school PE lesson with Miss Crystal and Miss Bates. During our first lesson, after a stretching warm up, we focused on how to safely complete a jump and we recapped previous jumps we have learned such as a star jump. Today, we looked at a straddle jump, pike jump and half turn.
Nursery Unicorns, Sharing and other Bits and Bobs
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 11:29am
We always have a wide variety of activities in nursery to meet the needs of all our children. This week to suppport physical developemnt we have been threading beads on to unicorns and exploring their creative side by painting and creating unicorns, We've also been developing relationships through lots iof turn taking opportunites and working collabratively.
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 11:22am
Nursery have had a throughly good time outside this week with lots of exciting and stimulting experiences. All our outdoor experiences are great for supporting social and emotional developemnt as the children learn to share, take turns and interact with their friends. Whilst they are doing this they also develop their communication and langauge skills. This week the children have been making ramps to roill conkers down. They investigated lots of differnent heights for the ramp and where thrilled when they discoverd if the conkers land on the trampoline they will bounce! The children also counted the conkers and explored capacity by putting them in different containers. The conker fun didn't stop there - we had to clean them all up! This was great for developing physical development as the children sweprt them in to a pile. Have a look at the photos to see what else we have been doing.
Year 3 Welcome their parents to The Royal Ballet
Date: 19th Oct 2023 @ 7:48am
This week was our last week dancing with The Royal Ballet School. To celebrate the success we have had over the last 6 weeks, we invited parents in to watch what we have been learning. It was a great turn out and we appreciate the support from our friends and family! We showcased our spotting, skipping, sautes, reverence and finally a routine we had put together linking to our Science topic on Forces.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 12:48pm
We were invited to take part in two fun festivals within Blackpool Zoo where each school will be given a map of the park to help them to solve the clues to find the right animals.
The children, chosen from Year 5, had a great morning with Mrs. Millar and Mr. Parsons supported by Leaders from Blackpool Sixth Form. Efficient map reading and a keen sense of time meant that we returned to the finish before the other schools – leaving us enough time to visit some of the animals not on our list (and the dinosaurs too!).
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 8:22am
Last week the children went to the Globe Theatre in Blackpool to watch a Royal Ballet demonstration. The children enjoyed watching the older students dance and were impressed by the strength of the dancers!
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 6:31pm
In this week's PE lesson, we swapped tennis for badminton - utilising the skills we have already learned. We focused on the serve and learned the most effective technique to perform a consistent serve. We practised effectively hitting the shuttlecock at a target before using forehand and backhand to take part in a rally.
Reception- Rosies Walk- outside learning
Date: 1st Oct 2023 @ 7:35pm
This week the children created an obstacle course outside to act out the story Rosies Walk and learn the positional language, under, through, past, across and around.
" I went around the pond" Esmai
"Rosie went across the farmyard" George
"The fox went over the haystack and then fell in it!" Isla
"Rosie went under the beehives" Kierah
"I went past the windmill like Rosie" Esme
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 2:35pm
In PE this week we have progressed further with our net and wall skills and practised sending and receiving tennis passes over a net. It was tricky at first but as the lesson progressed, we managed to pass and receive shots with a partner - some of us even had some rallies going on.
Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 10:56am
Starrting somewhere new can be a little bit scary so to help the children settle in we have read "Owl Babies" about some baby owls that are worried their mummy won't come back - but of course she does! The story is great for supporintg PSED skills and taking about emotions.
Nursery Won't Let The Rain Stop Them!
Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 10:48am
There is only one thing to do on a very rainy day and that's get outside and enjoy it! Nursery had a great time jumnping a splashing in the rain this week and when the slide got extra slippery from the rain drops the children loved sliding down it at super speed! They then got even wetter and explored the water tray. We added some small pipettes and the children pinched the top to sqeeeze water in and then squeezed them again to let the water out. The children counted how many drops it took to fill containers and how many sqeezes to fill the pipette.
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 2:58pm
In PE, we have been visited by the Royal Ballet school. We learnt how to do a reverence and how to move around the space. The children enjoyed listening to the live music and performing in front of others.
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 1:51pm
For one of our PE units this half term, we have been developing our dance skills. We have linked this dance with our current class novel, Fantastic Mr Fox. We have been thinking about how a fox might move and how we can show emotion through movement. We worked in small groups to put together a short motif that showed Mr Fox and his family digging, listening and moving.
Date: 19th Sep 2023 @ 5:22pm
In PE this week we have been answering the question, how do I roll a ball at a target? We have focused on rolling different objects and thought about how we could roll things faster and slower. We took part in four different games to help us practise our rolling skills.
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 12:13pm
Nursery are going to be using the dance studio every week to practise their listening skills. They will be doing this by learning some instructional games. So far we have learnt the "Stop and Go" game and the "Bean Game!"! We have learnt two beans this week - jumping bean and jelly bean!
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 3:55pm
This week we started our 7 weeks with Wigan Warriors. We learned to tig each other and run with the ball.
Date: 7th Sep 2023 @ 3:01pm
This week, the children in year 5 have had the first of their three summer Forest School lessons. After exploring the wild area and picking all of the fruit from the trees, pupils worked together to build dens, clear the pond area and find small animals that have moved in over the summer. Pupils had a great time and can't wait until next week!
Year 6 - Introduction to tennis
Date: 4th Sep 2023 @ 7:35pm
Today might have been our first day back but we got straight back to it and even got to begin our net and wall unit with a brief introduction to tennis. We learned how to hold our rackets properly and how to control the ball with the racket. We also progressed to sending and receiving accurate passes to our partner.
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 5:35pm
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 5:12pm
