Winter Sports Fun

Developing Leadership Skills


For the Winter Sports Fun Day a number of people from Room 4 organised and ran an introduction to a winter sport for all the juniors, middle school and seniors.

Well Done

Yea Rin, Luke, Josh, Annabel, Aria, Kate 

plus afternoon helpers Ellie and Gracie.

Josh and Ethan organising rugby gear

Annabel, Aria and Kate leading a hockey warmup activity

Yea Rin and Luke demonstrating soccer skills

Annabel and Aria packing up at the end of the day

Activity leaders having lunch together

Group Thinking

• What did you learn from doing this?
• What went well?
• What was hard?
• What would you do differently next time?

Olympic Dance

Learning Through Dance

Whole Class Thinking

This sample shows...

• We are dancing with Room 20 telling the story of the Olympics.
• We are showing the ancient and modern Olympics
• The Greek battle, opening ceremony, different sports, winning on the podium and the rings at the end.
• We are dancing on stage and keeping to the beat.
• The birth of the modern Olympics.
• A dance about the Greeks inventing the Olympics.

By doing this dance we learnt about...

• The elements of dance and the ancient and modern Olympics.
• The Greeks invented the Olympics.
• We learnt about timing, using space and relationships to other things.
• We learnt about the elements of drama to help us with our dance.  FARTS is Focus, Action, Role, Time, Space
• The elements of dance are BARTS-E = Body Awareness, Relationships, Timing, Space and Energy.
• We learnt about using power and expression.
• We learnt to work together to get the perfect timing.
• We learnt to listen to the beat of the music and keep in time with it.
• Using the idea of sports movement to make a dance.

Some things we did well include...

• The battle at the beginning
• I did a really good jump and turn.
• We did the punching in the air well together.
• We showed good expression on our faces.
• The rings looked good the way the different colours came together at the end.
• We did the slow motion movement well.
• Cooperating together, listening to the music and being in time.
• In the Eye of the Tiger part we had really good timing.

Some things we can improve on include...

• Being in time with the music better when we are jogging and boxing.
• The final Olympic rings and stopping at the same time.
• We could use the space better.
• Being all in perfect time together.
• We need to be more focused and working better together.
• Better freeze fames at the beginning.
• Sometime we went too fast – slow down and be on time at the end.
• Doing a shocked face at the end of the battle.
• Better freeze frames – really really still like a statue.
• I can improve on doing the circle with my friends.
• No sword noises in the battle please boys!

Thinking About Camp by Gracie

The activity that I enjoyed the most at camp was the abseiling.  I enjoyed this because it was a very good experience and it was fun and exciting.

Something that was a challenge for me was the river crossing.  This was a challenge because I have had a very bad experience doing this in the past.  Now that I have done this I feel more confident about how to cross a river safely.

Writing Planning by Gracie

• This sample shows...
• I have been learning to...
• One thing I think that I did well was...
• One thing I think I can improve on is...

Poem by Gracie

I Like Cake

I like cake

Just any cake

Chocolate banana and carrot cake

With lemon icing

Dribbling down the side

The cake gives me a tingling feeling

When I put it in my mouth

It makes me go all crazy

When the taste hits my mouth

So if you have a cake

On your birthday

Chocolate banana or anyother flavour

on your birthday

make sure

you

invite

me!

• This sample shows...My published poem that I typed up with Ellie.
• I have been learning to...organise my ideas in to a good order so my poem makes sense.
• One thing I think that I did well was...that I focused and worked hard to get my poem finished.
• One thing I think I can improve on is...try and make a poem that rhymes.