Badminton

Rod asked me to help him this week and I soon found out why he needed help! Children were learning how to perform the overhead shot and had a balloon suspended from a pole to aim at.Children were worried the balloon would burst but it was a specially reinforced one and could be hit really hard as I found out when I held one of them for half the group to aim at!

Rod teaching how to stand and how to aim to complete the shot successfully.

Really going for it!

Perfect body and arm position

Balloon held high to teach children to reach high for their shots

all having a turn

One group with Rod, the other was with me on the opposite side of the hall.

Some great powerful shots.

I look forward to seeing these shots in a game soon.

Tri Golf Competition

As part of the Legacy Tour we had use of a kit bag of Tri Golf to take part in a competition together with all 52 schools taking part in the tour.We also had Ken from Belton Woods Golf Club to coach us.

showing us how to put and chip

trying to get the ballonto the scoring target

warming up

how to hold the club and swing"tick-tock" style

what is the score?

watching each other

some good promising players

getting the hang of it

scoring time

                                  out siderings start for 2 and have the maximum of 12 for the centre

The competiton has begun... 3 balls each

total the scores and divide to find the average

lots in the scoring zone

We had an average score of 7.03= super.

Legacy Tour 2016

In readiness for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio, we once again took part in the Legacy Tour where a torch was passed to us from Barkston School together with a pledge  to inspire us to do well in the Tri Golf competition using the equipment passed to us for the day.( see PE Blog)
Our Bronze Sports Ambassadors Casper and Joseph welcomed our visitors and lead the assembly telling the whole school all about the forthcoming Olympics.

First a reminder of the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Now showing where the games are on a world map and telling us some interesting facts about Brazil.

The Olympic torch and what the design represents: the country's nature, the people, the sky, mountains, the sea and the sky. The top of the torch is gold Ike the sun and the colour of the medal all athletes aim for.  

The torch made for the tour which we will pass onto Long Bennington. We also have one for us to keep too.

Learning about the mascots:Tom and Vimicius.

The Bronze Ambassadors from Barkston joined in answering some of the questions.

                                 We learned the 2 new Olympic sports were Rugby 7's and Golf.

Barkston read their pledge to us before handing the torch over .

Our ambassadors receive the torch and thank Barkston.

Carl from Inspire+ now asks us to draw our country for the year 3/4 to represent at the Mini Olympic Games in June.

Hoping for a good draw...

Yeah!Jamaica- we look forward to learning all about the country and making a flag for our opening ceremony in June.

Casper seems happy with the draw result.

Thank you Barkston, we will do our best in the Tri golf today.

Thank you Carl for showing the photos and videos whilst Casper and Joseph  told us all about Rio 2016.Well done boys- very informative and interesting.

The following day I took the boys together with the Tri Golf kit,pledge and torch to Long Bennington School.Here the boys delivered our pledge and message that will be forwarded to the  G.B Olympic athletes in front of 250 children and staff.

A daunting task that was faultlessly carried out-well done boys- super ambassadors for our school- I was proud of you.

Handing over the torch to The Sports Council of Long Bennington School.