Cricket in class 3

This term we have the benefit of coaches from Grantham Cricket club coming in and coaching us for 10 weeks.
Ross had to do his first session in the hall as it rained!

explaining the game to groups

now we know what we are doing

Still plenty of space to practise skills inside until the sun shines and we can go outside on the field!

After half term the sun returned and we went outside and played non stop cricket- great team work.

putting our batting and fielding skills into a game

The sun remained and Jamie coached us on Tuesday afternoon.

non stop cricket

 A skills game running round whilst Jamie throws to different people therefore you had to keep your eye on the ball the whole time

if you dropped the ball you had to sit out!

not many left now

Rory and Casper were the last 2- super catching boys

KS1 Athletics club

Children had to have their athletics session indoors due to the rain, hail and generally freezing cold weather!They still enjoyed learning and fine tuning their athletics skills with Colin.
The first game was practising side stepping to the left and then the right round the outside of the cones. Children were split into groups of Big Cats and had to listen for their names-Lions,Tigers, Cheetahs...

Next activity was lunging. Children had to lunge to reach a ball and then lunge to replace it on another cone.Colin kept changing which leg and arm children were to use so they had to listen carefully as well as know which was their left/ right!

Great work- I really enjoyed watching children practising these activities.

Tag Rugby Competition

On Thursday 12 children represented the school at the Mega Tag Rugby Competition.8 boys and 4 girls made up our team. Will came along as team coach and made the team selections for each match. Each game had to have a minimum of  2 girls on the field .

Out team with Will ready to start.

A lovely sunny afternoon.

between matches, tag belts on ready

and the matches begin...

lining up ready to start

We won our first match 7-4.

spreading out -looking good- no forward passes...

We played 5 matches: won 3 and lost 2.In our first league we came"2nd" behind joint winners Harlaxton and Barkston A team- a fabulous effort.

Overall result was 6th out of 12 schools.

A super effort considering some children had not played rugby before last week! Thank you Will for coming and coaching us .We look forward to next year as lots of children back at school were keen to take part too!

KS2 Athletics Club

Our new club started this week and Colin Gibson has come back but this time to coach athletics.
The first session was looking at running skills where children completed skills, relays and activities .

warm up circle game

relay races

Again a lovely day to start the athletics and use our field.

Tag Rugby in Class 3

Will came to work with us last week on a gloriously sunny afternoon. We enjoyed 2 hours outside learning and practising tag rugby skills. Whilst Will worked on the field I took a group on the yard and then swapped.

1st group ready to start

group on yard practising passing 

learning not to pass forwards

working as a team towards the touch down line

swapping each time to work with different group members

back on the field skills practised and now ready to start using the tag belts

almost ready to put skills into a game

teams getting ready

and play...

remove the tag belt and stop the play

time to discuss what needs working on next

We were so lucky with the weather as the next day it pored down with rain.