Health Week

What a fantastic week we’ve all had. This week the focus has been on health and wellbeing and all activities linked to this. Our timetable has been jam packed and every day has been full of fun.

Check out our class story on dojo for photographs of some of the events and follow us on Twitter for more photographs and video links, @mrsroy16.

Monday

We started the week with the daily mile and invited our nursery friends along to join us. We all chose a partner and showed them the route. We then went straight to gymnastics which was good fun, we even got to make a human pyramid at the end with the full class taking part. Amber, Klaudia and Mark were very flexible and showed us some great cartwheels. After break we went straight to cross country with Mr McCurdy and had a practise at pacing ourselves for the fun run on Friday. Mrs Roy was exhausted and couldn’t keep up with some of us! In class we learned about the different parts of the body and the special jobs they all do, we watched a video about this and joined in with a fun song. After lunch it was time for fit and flex, this was a circuit with high intensity activities. Nathan couldn’t stop laughing at Mrs Roy when she tried to pull the stretchy band!

Tuesday

Judo was very popular in the class with many voting for this as their favourite activity. James and Brooke had to help demonstrate some of the moves which we all found really funny. Mrs Stewart did really well too when she partnered up with children! We went over to Dedridge PS for micro fitness, a huge inflatable with lots of challenges. Everyone managed to have lots of turns, it was really exhausting. In dance we learned a short hip-hop routine, Rafay and Ephraim had some impressive moves! The day ended with a nature walk, we spotted lots of signs of plant life and animals, we even met the new cygnets at the pond! In class we used the UNICEF launch pad to learn more about the rights of the child, we focused on article 5.

Wednesday

Before school started we had our parent and child bootcamp, well done to those who made it along.

It was a very relaxing start to the day with a yoga session, Mrs Roy loved how quiet and peaceful we all were!!! Football followed this and we got the chance to work on our dribbling skills and technique. In the afternoon we learned about the Eatwell plate and discussed different food types. We did a carousel which included making our own healthy plates and food technology. At the food technology station we made fruit kebabs, the ingredients we could choose from were : bananas, melon, pineapple, grapes and strawberries. It was great to so many children trying new flavours.

Thursday

Cheerleading was exciting as we learned a routine and used the Pom poms. We quickly picked up the routine to music and then got a chance to make up our own parts of the routine to two counts of 8, great teamwork everyone! The nursery joined us to learn about measure and we worked in teams to measure how tall we all were creating our own height charts. Boot camp was next, we got the chance to get outside and dirty taking part in different challenges-tug of war, follow the leader, the cone squatting game, walk the tight rope, etc. In the afternoon we had cricket where we got the chance to practise our throwing and batting skills. Isla was very good at this! We then finished off the day with a turn on the trim trail.

Friday

The day of the fun run arrived and we all went outside to do our warm ups to music, the whole school were there! Some families came along to support us, thank you. Well done to Ephraim who ran very quickly and finished first for our class.

Mrs Purdie then had a reward for 2 children in our class, Dexter and Isla, they were awarded the Headteacher Award, the theme this week was respect. They enjoyed a healthy smoothie as their reward.

Thank you

A huge thank you to Mr McCurdy for organising such a successful week and thanks to the children for participating so enthusiastically! Mrs Roy is away for a long soak in the bath to ease her aching muscles after all those activities!