Gym in Class 1

Carole Foote continued teaching gym to class 1 this week where children enjoyed learning and practising different ways of travelling and moving across the floor.

                                         Children had to spin the hoop and then travel around it.

Now to travel across the floor using different equipment....

hoops...

cones and  benches...

jumping...

walking on all fours...

balancing...

lots to do.

Squash club Year 4,5 &6 and Gym Competition club.

The club for Years 4,5 and 6 is squash and we welcomed back coach Colin. Many children have returned having enjoyed the club last year and were keen to further develop their skills.

Fore hand and back hand were practised.

A mini ralley hitting the ball above the red line on the net trying to keep the ralley going with partners.

Next week mini games start.

Gym Competition Club Preparation.

Preparation and coaching for a gym competition in March has started this term with children from different years.

Mrs.James works with the children fine tuning their skills and techniques.

Older children keep a watchful eye on younger ones, encouraging them as they work.

Football club Years 1,2 &3 and Class 1 Gym

Peter from Inspire + started the football club this week for Y1,2 and 3. Children were in the hall learning drills and practising skills.

Learning to dribble the ball...

turn around the cone and pass the ball back in a straight line.

Gym in Class 1 

This term Carole Foote , a gym coach, is working with all children in class 1.

Miss Wade said the children really enjoyed their first lesson and worked hard on the skills taught.

I came in at the cool down session and will try to photograph different skills next week.

Resilient Me with Sophie Allen

Inspire+ coach and mentor Sophie Allen visited us to take 2 workshops aimed at Y 5 and Y6 to develop resilience and self belief. She talked to both groups about problems and what to do if children had any- who to talk to and how to become confident and resilient under pressure- be it peer pressures, pressure of exams and school work...

question and answer sessions

Good advice Sophie.

KS1 Dance Club

Years 1,2,3 and 4 enjoyed 6 weeks of different dance routines lead by Micky a dance coach from Inspire+. At the end of every session I was invited in to see what the group had learned.It was always a pleasure to watch the children who (mostly) were all smiles and proud to share their dances.

A perfect pose to finish this routine.

Thank you Micky- 6 lovely routines with Happy being one of my favourites.

Ben Smith 401 marathon runner and his visit .

Friday 24th saw Ben Smith Inspire+ ambassador  together with Chris from Inspire + visit us for a special assembly.Our Bronze Sports ambassadors welcomed Ben and introduced him to everyone in the hall - a perfect visitor to end our week learning about Anti Bullying with Ben being an ambassador for anti bullying charities.

Ben asked if we remembered his last visit in 2016 and why he came- we did! He then started to tell us about his new BIG challenge and how he planned to raise £1,000,000 for anti bullying charities.
                                                      
                                          

His first challenge to run 401 marathons in 401 days involved 26 miles every day.How far was this, what could the challenge be?

Ben had lots of thoughts he was willing to put to Ben- to run 1000marathons in 1000days?

Benji guessed Ben had run the equivalent distance of here to New Zealand- this was almost correct as the right answer was from here to Sydney Australia.

This new challenge will involve over 80 miles everyday for 38 days! Ben is planning to run across America in 38 days- a new world record that at present stands at 42 days.He is asking children for their help to plan this challenge.next year he will return to share his plans for the actual event in 2020.
He asked what things would need to be thought about in order to ensure the challenge could go ahead and for it to be successful.Lots of ideas were put forward and questions were asked.

Harry wanted to know how Ben would fund the trip. Ben told us he sold his house to fund the last challenge and that lots of fund raising would be needed.

Our ambassadors thank Ben and invite him to blow out our candles.

Great first official job ambassadors.

From the serious to the fun...

Back to the serious showing Ben some of the work we have done in our Anti Bullying week.

The ambassasors proud to share what we have been doing.