The week is nearly at an end and some boys and girls (and staff) are up to 20 laps of the playground area, with their fun five activity every 4th lap.
Today was the emphasis was on throwing skills – starting by throwing beanbags at the target of a hoop on the ground. Some pupils set themselves the challenge of throwing to the furthest away hoop. When they came to their second activity they had to choose which size of box they were going to throw their ball into – not many people tried the smallest box – it was very tricky!
Back to beanbags for activity three, and how far could you throw a beanbag? Activity four was throwing the javelin and we were all glad that the wind had died down today.
The final throwing activity was by far the most popular – SOAK THE TEACHER!
Miss McLuckie, Mr Reid and Miss Carson took turns on the wet seats and had pupils aiming to throw a wet sponge at them. To say they all got pretty wet by the end was no exaggeration – especially as there was the chance to soak each other with water pistols! The most successful at hitting the teachers seemed to be the younger pupils who didn’t throw the sponge with all their strength – this helped their aim.

Then pupils helped to tidy everything up – in their own way!See our photos.

Everyone is beginning to look forward to these fun activities in the playground – some had even started running their laps before we officially started off our Wednesday fun. The theme today was up, over, under and through and those pupils who could, were doing 15 laps of the concrete area as well as their jumping, crawling tasks.

The first task (after 3 laps) was to jump over the hurdles, next time around it was to try to get under the canes without knocking them down – but nobody wanted to get too dirty by crawling! The third task was to go through the tunnel – our photo shows the longest pupil in Blackburn!
Task 4 was to either walk along the snake or try to jump from side to side along it – this was a new activity for a lot of pupils.
Everyone had great fun finishing the course (on the 15th lap) by going over all the obstacles on out trim trail.
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It was a cold morning when we started our second Fun Fives Event.
In response to comments from the pupils, we made the laps shorter, but everyone had to do 10 laps today.
Our focus today was ball skills and every second lap pupils tried to develop a ball skill.
After lap 2 pupils had to dribble a football between some cones. At lap 4, it was bounce along the lane with a ball between your knees. After lap 6 everyone did very well keeping their tennis ball balanced on their tennis racquet. The last two special laps involved scoring a basket or shooting at goal.
All the pupils, from P1 – P4 (including our ASD classes) had great fun!
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It was a misty Monday morning when pupils from P1 – P4 started their fundraising efforts for Sport Relief with our first Fun Five event.
Today was Movement Monday and every time they came to the movement lane on their laps around the playground, pupils had to do a different movement.

On lap 1 it was all about moving fast, lap 2 was a go slow lane. On lap 3 pupils hopped on one foot, by lap 4 it was hop or jump with two feet. Our last lap was all about travelling as low as possible – for most this meant bunny hops as it was a bit wet underfoot.

It was tiring but lots of fun – REMEMBER sponsor money back to school as soon as possible.

The children of Blackburn are raising money for Sport’s Relief and are taking part in 5 sporting activities every day leading up to Sport’s Relief Friday.  You will have received a sponsor form to raise money for this event and we kindly request that the children only ask for sponsors from friends and family.  It is going to be a lot of fun and a healthy way to raise money.  Please ensure that the children have suitable clothing to take part in each event and look out for the photographs to follow.