Wednesday 25th October

Sports Activator

Today we had a visit from Mitch who is our Sports Activator for this term. The focus today was cricket. We began with a quick warm-up game of turning cones. We were in two teams and had to turn up as many cones as we could. The other team would have to turn them back the other way. It was a very fast paced and exciting game! Next, we moved onto some cricket skills. We worked on our catching skills where Mitch would throw us really high balls and we had to run in and catch them. Then it was time to practice our running between the wickets. We also worked on our bowling where we had to bowl at the stumps. It was a really fun session. Thanks Mitch for coming along, we can’t wait for your next session.

Tuesday 29th August

Sports Activator

Yesterday Greer was at school for another Sports Activator session. Our focus this time was on golf, with the upcoming Tony Tourell Golf Tournament in Clinton on Wednesday 6th September.

We began by warming up with one of our favourite games: Rock Paper Scissors tag. It was a great game that got our blood pumping!

We then learned how to grip the golf stick correctly before we started hitting the ball. We began by hitting a large soft ball to get used to swinging and hitting the target. After a few practices at this target, we then started hitting a tennis ball and continued to do this for the remainder of the lesson.

There were some pretty interesting shots happening!

Tuesday 2nd August

Sports Activator 

Today we had our first visit for Term 3 from our Sports Activator Greer. Today’s focus was on Netball. We learnt a new warm up game which we all really enjoyed. We all had to run around and find people to tag. Once we tagged them we played a game of rock, paper, scissors. The winner got to carry on running while the other person had to sit down. If the person who got you out lost a game, you got to stand back up and carry on. It was heaps of fun and one of our new favourite games. We then moved onto passing skills. We practiced chest passes, high lob passes, and bounce passes. Finally, we had a game of numbers. We split into two teams with the winning team being the one that counts to 10 first. To do this a player has to catch the ball and place it on the ground and count 1. They then pass to another teammate who would count 2. If the ball got intercepted, the score starts at 1 again. There was a lot of excitement and energy with this game!

These skills we have been practicing will come in handy when some of us participate in the Netball Tournament in Balclutha next Thursday.

Thursday 1st June

Sports Activator

Today we had our last visit of the term from Greer our Sports Activator. Today’s focus was basketball. We started with a few games to get us all warmed up. We then focused on skills including bouncing the ball and dribbling. We had to try to dribble the basketball as we were chucking a tennis ball up in the air. This was very tricky! We then had to dribble our basketballs up and down the court trying not to have our balls stolen by the two people who were ‘in’. We also played a game similar to sneak up on granny, where we had to dribble our balls up the court and if Greer turned around we had to quickly stop and stand still. Finally, we practiced a very important part of basketball, our shooting. We had a go shooting from right in front and then from the sides. We learned we aim for the square when we are shooting from in front and aim for the red corner when we are shooting from the side. It was a great session and the skills we practiced will come in very handy for those students who play basketball on Monday nights.    

Thursday 25th May

Sports Activator

We have been making the most of the good weather and have been getting outside to practice some Rippa Rugby. Yesterday we had another visit from our sports activator Greer. We went through some skills and games to help us prepare for the Rippa Rugby Tournament in Balclutha next week. We started with a game of rob the nest. This was where we had to get the balls from the middle or other teams hoops to bring back to our own hoop. The winner was the first team to get 5 balls in their hoop. We then played a game where we had to try rip the tags off everyone and put them on our own belt. The winner was the person with the most tags. We also played a game of rippa rush and ended the session playing rippa numbers. This was where Greer called out a number and that many people from the team had to run around a cone and start playing a game of rippa. They had 3 rips to try score a try before it was the other team's turn. It was a very fast paced game and we were all out of breath in no time. These games were great to get us prepared for the Rippa Tournament which will be taking place next Tuesday the 30th at the Balclutha Showgrounds.

Rob the nest.

Rob the nest.

Bree attempting to take Taylor's tag!

Esther trying to sidestep Taylor

Rippa Rush!

Will Bree catch Courtney?

Flynn making a break!

Wednesday 29th March

Sports Activator

Today we had another visit from our sports activator Greer. In today’s session, we were focusing on soccer. We started with a few warm up games of flush the toilet and shark tag. We then moved onto some dribbling and passing skills. Finally we finished with a game where we were able to put all of our skills into practice. This is great practice for when we attend the Football Tournament next month.

Tuesday 28th February

Sports Activator

Yesterday we had another visit from Greer the Sports Activator. This time we were learning some soccer skills. We began by playing a warm-up game of ‘Donkey Tails’. This was where we had bibs tucked into our shorts as a tail. The aim of the game was to steal each others tails. The person with the most tails at the end of the game was the winner. Next up was a game of “Shark Attack’. Everyone had a ball and we had to dribble it around in the marked our area. There were two people in and they had to try kick as many balls out as they could. This was one of our favourite games. Finally, we played a game similar to ten pin bowling, except we had to kick soccers balls and knock the balls off the cones. It was quite tricky but we all had such a fun time racing each other to be first!

Playing 'Donkey Tails'

How many tails can we get?

Practising our dribbling

Watch out for Greer, Tristan! 

Can Bree get the ball out?

Soccer ten pin bowling

Great kick Hayden!

Who will win?