Eastern Zones Athletics

We had an awesome time at Eastern Zone Athletics on Wednesday. We all had to dial up our Grit! 

Thank you to our wonderful parent community for helping us with this event.

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?

Worser Bay Athletics- Friday 29th October

This term we will have a big focus on Positive Health. Our Inquiry is called, "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?" 

Our Inquiry will involve the Science of the cardiovascular system, healthy eating and learning about the importance of sleep and, of course, being active. We will be keeping a Health Journal, collecting personal data, goals, etc. We hope also that this intersects with some Positive Purpose, doing good for others and giving back in some way. Our students will be leading what this will look like.

The Institute of Positive Education, Geelong Grammar School says that "Health is a cornerstone of a holistic model of positive education. Within the model, health is defined as practising sustainable habits for optimal physical and psychological health that are developed from a sound knowledge base. Evident by this definition is the notion that health consists of multiple components and that complete health is achieved when a person is physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally well." Read more in the Positive Health Literature Review. 

We are using the “SPIRE” acronym to help us to set goals.

 

Spiritual Well-being: Leading a meaningful and moral life and living mindfully, while contributing to the greater good.

Physical Well-being: Cultivating a healthy body through exercise, nutrition, and adequate rest and recovery.

Intellectual Well-being: Acquiring knowledge, engaging in rigorous scholarship, cultivating creativity, and fostering the love of learning.

Relational Well-being: Contributing to, and in turn, benefiting from other people by focusing on the role that the person plays in his or her social environment.

Emotional Well-being: Increasing one’s ability to experience pleasurable emotions while acquiring the resilience necessary to effectively deal with painful emotions.

Read more: https://drsarahmckay.com/three-evidence-based-daily-habits-wellbeing-happiness/

This is our initial session on "energy."  This is based on extensive research by David Keane:

 

We have started our Health Journals. We are measuring our improved fitness over time. We have initial data from a beep test. 

We will also monitor and track data on across 4 exercises: 

burpees

push ups

tricep dips 

leg raises

We have put ourselves into fitness groups. Some of us will be pushing ourselves to our limits, while others prefer a more gentle exercise routine. This is the route we will either run, run/ walk or walk on a regular basis. 

Zane: Yesterday I did my first health journal. I went down the hill saw my house then went up the zig zag. My legs started to hurt but I got to school. Haru helped me and I helped him We also did burpees, tricep dip push ups and leg raises.

Lisa: This week was real fun I really enjoyed doing our run on Thursday my favourite activity afterwards was the leg lifts. I also enjoyed doing athletics I came around five or six on most of them my favourite one was long jump

Ethan B: We had to put ourselves into groups from four to one. Four is like you will do walking and you don't really want to run. Group one is like you really like running and you're fast. I put myself into group two and we went for a pretty big run it was quite hard but it wasn't super, super hard.Then when we came back we did a lot of exercise. We did tricep dips and they were quite hard but to me they weren't the hardest thing that we did. We also did leg ups they were probably the hardest to me. We also did burpees they actually might have been the other hardest one to me. They were really hard and doing the push ups in them were really hard. Then we did push ups and they were still very hard.

Petra: I found the fitness test REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hard. It was EXHAUSTING! First, we did a run down to the beach. We didn't go to the beach though. We didn't cross the road to the beach. We kept walking to a pedestrian only path with white hand railings that zigzagged up. After we finally got back to school, We did lots and lots of exercise. We did Burpees, Tricep Dips, Push Ups, and Leg ups. I was EXHAUSTED afterwards.

Fabian: We had to a big run to the beach and up the zig-zag way. After we did tricep dips, push ups, burpees and leg raises. I used my legs and arms and I have to work on my tricep dips.

Charlotte: I found the fitness challenge hard after doing it for a long time but it was kind-of fun. We did tricep dips, running, push ups, leg raises and burpees. It was kind-of hard because we did twenty tricep dips and ten of the rest and then we did all of them for one minute each. I used my upper body muscles.

Athletics 2020 Newtown Park.

 We took a team of 32 athletes to New Town Park on Wednesday to compete in the Easter Zone Athletics, a great experience for our kids.  It was great to see the Character Strengths of Zest and Bravery coming to the fore as everybody took on new challenges.

Not only did we compete enthusiastically, picking up some first and second places in heats, but we made friends with kids from other schools.  It is lovely to see the spirit Worser Bay brings to these big events; great energy and competitive fire but also real camaraderie!  `` 

Special mention goes to Pyrenees won qualified for the inter-zone event coming 2nd in the 800 metres. A powerful run! While some of our Athletes won their heats, the final results show only one other placing, a 3rd place for Theo; his first place not being as quick as the other heat.  Zoe also ran some incredibly good races, placing first in both of her heats also.  Amazing! Congratulations to all participants!

Relay Teams Ready!

Thanks also to the fantastic group of parents who supported us on the day at the park and with transport.  Much appreciated!

Grit at Athletics

Our learner attribute this term is "I am Powerful." Part of being powerful is about Grit. We showed Grit today in Athletics. Grit is about using persistence and resilience to overcome challenges.

Eastern Zones Athletics

Worser Bay students were well represented at Eastern Zones Athletics. Every single person demonstrated grit by being brave, being thoughtful, showing perseverance, showing resilience and being passionate!

We LOVE how our students have been working on their Positive Health along with their Positive Accomplishment. 

Sophie: I took part in the relay. There were 5 of us and we all ran 80m. Before the race I felt nervous and excited. I felt like I needed to use a lot of zest. 

Georgia: I felt like I wasn’t my normal self on the way to Eastern Zones. I felt like I didn’t know how I could do it. When I was running I didn’t think I would make it to the end. I did. 

Alex: I had a good day. I took part in the relays. I was nervous at the start. Some people thought I got disqualified as it took ages to pass the baton. I accidentally went into the wrong lane at the end.

Sitara: I felt excited and nervous. My goal was to do my best and I did.

Anastasiya: I felt really nervous at the sprints because there were tons of other girls and there was lots and lots of people watching.

Worser Bay Athletics

On Friday, we ran our Year 4, 5 and 6 athletics. What a beautiful day! Students were ready, parents were there and we couldn't wait to start our events. 

The sprinters gave it everything, the vortex and quoit throwers were throwing as far as they could and the long jumpers leapt!

Avery: I really liked doing Athletics at the beach. I am thankful for the sun on Friday.

Marnie: I am grateful for being able to do lots of activities on the beach!

Lily S: I had so much fun trying the different activities on the beach. I am very proud of myself.

Angus: I am thankful for the teachers letting us do athletics day today and supervising it.

Chris: I showed good sportsmanship at athletics and was kind.

Sammy: I liked doing athletics and athletics practice because I really liked throwing the vortex and the quoits.

Athletics on the Beach

Today we had a great time on Worser Bay Beach taking part in our Athletics event. Everyone showed great bravery, perseverance and resilience. 

We will be in touch regarding Eastern Zones Athletics. Watch this space!

Athletics Training

Yesterday we started training for our WBS Athletics (next Friday 27th October). We did long jump, sprinting, throwing quoits and throwing vortex. Our Inquiry is called, "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?" and we are looking forward to our summer of fitness. 

Athletics Interzones today

Good luck to these two who will be throwing quoits at Interzones athletics today. Good luck out there!

Eastern Zones Athletics

We had a great time at Eastern Zones Athletics.

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Vortex

Today we had a go at throwing the vortex. Look at us go!

Quoit Throwing

We are practising quoit throwing as part of our athletics training.

Sprinting

Look at them go!