We have been doing hockey for our outdoor P.E lessons this term. This week we were focusing on tackling and learned about the ‘jab’ tackle and ‘block’ tackle.

Our focus for P.E in Term 1 is fitness. P7.25 and P7.26 will be working together to improve their fitness levels over the next few weeks.  This will involve circuit based exercises focusing on body weight exercises, agility and endurance.

We had a great time at our Sports Day this morning with all members of the class running excellently in the races and having lots of fun in the potted sports.

Well done to our medalists!! Paul Rolfe won Gold in the Primary 6 boys sprint, closely followed by Oliver Dean winning Bronze 🥇🥉

In the girls race, Mia McCamon won Silver after a very close sprint finish 🥈

Well done to all and many thanks to the parents who came along to support us today!

We have enjoyed the start of our new outdoor P.E block of rugby the last two weeks.

We have been working on developing our skills that were previously taught by Whitecraigs player Nicole and are advancing into small-sided touch rugby game play and skills drills.

Today we learnt the overhead pass, a technique used in line-outs and focused on performing accurate passes that our teammates were able to receive and run on with the ball for a try.

We look forward to more rugby in the coming weeks as the infamous Six Nations tournament begins in February – we think this will give us lots of inspiration!

Our Friday P.E has moved to our fantastic gym hall and over the last few weeks we have been developing our basketball skills.

We have been working on dribbling, passing, shooting, teamwork and communication!

We have particularly enjoyed our small team games and challenges, we even had a chance to play against 6.24!

We are looking forward to more basketball over the coming weeks!

We had a very exciting start to the week on Monday as we had a visit from Whitecraigs rugby player Nicole.

Due to the wet and windy weather our lesson was moved indoors to our Street area and we had an excellent first session learning about the techniques for scoring a try, carrying the ball and passing the ball. Afterwards we enjoyed team challenges in small groups.

Fingers crossed for a dry day for our next session!

In our P.E, we have moved onto athletics. Today in the sunshine we were doing relay races in groups of 4. We practised using the baton and passed it to one another. We started off only being able to do this statically but by the end of the lesson we were all sprinting!

We are looking forward to developing our athletics skills more over the coming weeks!

Over the last few weeks we have been enjoying our P.E lessons out on the pitch and have developed our hockey skills!

We started out with passing and dribbling and enjoyed doing various drills and games in our teams.

Today we played a round robin tournament of matches – some great skills were on display and lots of goals were scored. Next week we are going to move onto defending!