1C Aspirational Sports Carousel

Lesson: Physical education

Class: Year 1 - 1C Year: 2021 - 2022

Thursday 30th June 2022                  ASPIRATIONAL SPORTS CAROUSEL

Today we had the most amazing and exciting day jam packed with LOTS of different types of sports. What a day it was! We all moved from one activity to another and we were never stood still. Every child in the school was involved at all times throughout the whole day.

Year 1 started their day off with an African dance session. During this highly energetic session, the children were fully immersed in the experience and were taught some of the different traditional African dance moves native to this wonderfully vibrant and diverse culture. This was so much fun! But, it wasn't as easy as it looks. To have a look at some videos please see below.

We then went on to the playground to learn some cricket skills. Jaydon, who is a South African first team cricket player taught us how to throw over-arm and under-arm. He also showed us how to have our hands ready and to keep our eyes on the ball so that we could catch it.

After cricket we went down to the field where we met with Pete. He is a rugby coach at Birkenhead Rugby Club. He taught us how to pass and catch a rugby ball - this is a different throw compared to other sports such as netbal and basketball etc. He told us that we have to hold it like a tub of water and pass it as if we are going to get our team mate wet!!! Once we had practised these skills, he then explained the rules of the game and we had a go! This was tricky. We got into two teams and had a mini match, we had to pass the ball to a member of our team and then run as fast as we could without getting caught. If a member of the the opposing team  tagged us, we had to give the ball to them. If you didn't get tagged and you made it to the line, that is then called a try!!! (which is a point). Pete said that we really got stuck in and we played exceptionally well.

We were all getting hot and tired, so we went inside for a little break. We had snack, a drink and a visit to the toilet before staring our Yoga session.

After this we went back to the playground for a game of netball. We have never tried netball before so this was new to us. First we were shown how to pass a ball to a team mate and how to score a goal. We then got into two teams and practised our skills. We really didn't think that we would be able to score many goals due to the netball post being so high, but, we scored LOADS!!!! We learned how to attack and defend in order to keep and take the ball from the other team. We really enjoyed netball. Thank you Miss Rowe for teaching us.

Well, we had certainly worked up an apetite, so thankfully, it was time for lunch. We had our lunch in our classrooms, we had a lunch bag supplied by the kitchen staff that contained a yummy sandwich, a cool fruit juice, a piece of fruit, a packet of crisps, a cookie and a sneaky little freddo (for energy of course) Thank you Mrs Evans and the team.

Once lunch time was done, we headed out into the forest for our woodland session. Here we had to choose a card from three piles; an action, a compass direction and a number. For example, South, 15, star jumps. We had to check the compass and turn to face the correct direction and complete 15 star jumps. We did lots of different physical challenges such as; front and back lunges, hops, squats, star jumps and many more. After this we had a bit of free play using the trim trail. Thank you Mrs Hancox.

After this fun time, we headed down to the field to learn how to play rounders. Mrs Carey and Miss Butler demostrated how to bowl, bat a ball, score a rounder, field, back stop and defend the bases. We got into two teams and first had a practise. Mrs Carey was the bowler and we all had a turn of the other roles. We had a fabulous time and we got Mrs Carey out because she didn't keep her eye on the ball!

Next, we travelled to the other side of the field where we engaged in some athletics activities. We did javelin, shotput, relay races and sprint races (the ipad ran out of battery for our races tut!)

Our final event was with Jaydon Paddock. He is a TEAM GB GOLD MEDALIST in Gymnastics!! He is a tumbler and he is only 20 years old!! He was such an inspiration. First he told us all about how he became a tumbler and how he got to the level that he is at. He talked about the importance of being reslient, brave, determined, hardworking, dedicated, motivated and having a good attitude. He also explained how a good diet and rest also play a vital role in an athletes progression. We than had a Q&A session where we found out lots more about him, and he showed us his gold medal and Mrs Carey had her photograph taken!. THEN...... He did a backflip! It was SO high and fast! It was amazing! Our final stage of his visit was a circuit training session with Jaydon himself. He gave us a little taster of what some of his daily workouts involve. For video footage, please see below.

What a fabulous day we had!!! Here are some quotes from the children;

"This is the best day of my life"

"I have had so much fun today, I love sport now"

"Can we do this again on another day?"

"I hope this is what our PE lessons are going to be like from now on!"

"I want to do Rugby after school now"