Wednesday 14th September

Sports Activator

It was a beautiful sunny day to be outside today. Greer was back to take us for some touch again. We warmed up with a game of tails where we had to grab the tail of another player and try to avoid ours getting taken. George was the winner of this game every time! We then moved on to our passing, dodging and defending skills before bringing these all together in a whole class game of touch. 

Its's great to see all of our skills improving. This will be important when we start playing our touch games.

Check out some photos of us below!

Everyone into their passing drills. 

Great technique Maddie!

Cooper diving for his ball!  

Who will grab the ball first? 

Go Georgia! 

Draw and pass! 

George making a break. 

Away goes Bree!

Friday 9th September

Visit to Ken and Kate's

On Friday we were lucky enough to visit Ken and Kate's historical house, just down the road, as part of our Then and Now inquiry unit. Their house really is amazing! It has two wings to it, one side where the maids and servants use to live and the other side where the family lived. There are still lots of cool old things in the house that we learnt about. We also noticed lots of similarities with Olveston Historic Home that we visited earlier in the term.

We are very thankful to Ken and Kate for opening up their house to us. We learnt a wealth of new information and think this house would be pretty cool to live in!

Tuesday 6th September

Touch

Today we were also lucky to receive another visit from Grant Milne who came to teach us some touch. First we warmed up with a couple of games of shark tag. We had to work on our sidestepping, acceleration and defending. We could then take these skills into a game of touch. It was girls vs boys so was an interesting game. Everyone had a great time and improved their touch skills. These will come in handy for those students who are playing touch this year.

Thanks for coming Grant, we really enjoyed it. 

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Tuesday 6th September

Inquiry- Then and Now

Today we had a visit from Hamish as part of our inquiry unit - Then and Now. He brought in lots of old things for us to look at and he talked about how things have changed over time. We were able to ask our own questions about how life was back in the olden days. Some of the things we found out about will be very helpful for our Oral Presentations coming up in a couple of weeks. It was so cool to see all the awesome items Hamish brought with him. We found this very interesting and we learnt heaps. It was great to have Hamish here, thanks heaps for coming!

Esther feeling how heavy the jug is. 

Lincoln checking out an old iron.

Hamish explaining some of the old sports.

Showing us an old lamp.

How long would it take to vacuum your house with this?

Discussing old phones and their development.

Touch

Today we were also lucky to receive another visit from Grant Milne who came to teach us some touch. First we warmed up with a couple of games of shark tag. We had to work on our sidestepping, acceleration and defending. We could then take these skills into a game of touch. It was girls vs boys so was an interesting game. Everyone had a great time and improved their touch skills. These will come in handy for those students who are playing touch this year.

Thanks for coming Grant, we really enjoyed it. 

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