As part of Health week, the pupil council asked for an Olympic inspired obstacle course.  Our obstacle course developed agility, stamina, coordination, balance and many more skills athletes need to participate at a high standard.  Our buddies came along and did it with us.  They had already done it in their PE time, so could keep us right.

P1B have been using colour to make their teddy bear collages . Here are a few examples finished today.

We have been learning a song about Hot Cross Buns. We practised keeping a steady beat and we suggested lots of different ways we could keep the beat like tapping our heads or shoulders, or clicking our fingers in time.

We have also learned  about Boomwhackers and how they are used to create different sounds of different pitches. We worked out that the longer the boomwhacker, the lower the pitch of the note and the smaller the boomwhacker, the higher the pitch of the note.

In the clip below, you can see the class performing the song ‘Hot Cross Buns’ using boomwhackers.

This week our bubbies joined us for some of our PE time.  We were starting our block of racket activities.  We used short tennis rackets and soft trainer tennis balls.  Our buddy helped by rolling and throwing the ball for us to stop it and roll it back and hit it back.  We also had a shot at rolling the ball for our buddies to use the bat to send it back.

Primary 1 having been doing athletics in PE.  We have learnt that athletics consists of running, jumping and throwing.  We have practiced our 6 sports day events, which are

• 30m sprint
• 1 minute, 10m shuttle run
• one handed over head throw
• 2 handed overhead throw
• standing long jump
• 30 second rebound jump

We have had a fabulous couple of days enjoying the spring sunshine, playing together and having fun  

We have continued working on games in PE, but with more of a focus on games with equipment.  We have been mainly using balls, working on aiming, throwing, catching, tracking the ball and basic attacking and defending skills.  We have loved the block.

P1B have been drawing daffodils and making collages.

We have been doing games in PE.  We are aiming to develop  understanding of movement and positioning, cooperation and perform some basic skills in simple contexts.

Here we are working together and following simple tasks.

Wow! What a lot of these metaskills we used during our trip to build dams at the beach

P3 and P1 worked brilliantly together and had a great time.