Positive Health and Fitness

We have been working on our Positive Health by trying to improve our fitness. 

We know that exercise is good for us and that we need to make it fun, so we're doing a range of activities!

This term we will be tracking our fitness by recording data. We will be regularly doing push ups, tricep dips, planks, leg raises and burpees. We want to improve the amount of exercises that we can do in a minute. We also want to improve our technique.

We have also done the beep test. We will see if our scores improve later in the term.

We are looking forward to the Worser Bay Cross Country on Tuesday. We know that we will need to show 'Grit' to do the best that we can!

Regular exercise has lots of health benefits for ākonga, such as:

• improving fitness
• providing an opportunity build and enhance Positive Relationships
• increasing concentration
• improving learning focus
• enhancing Positive Accomplishment
• building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
• encouraging healthy growth and development
• improving posture and balance
• enhancing Positive Emotions
• encouraging a better night's sleep

Statistical Investigations

 As part of our Healthy Body, Healthy Mind inquiry, we have been thinking about different ways to measure our strength and fitness. 

We revisited some learning around heart rates. We had another go at recording our heart rate before and after exercise. This time, we put all that data on a dot plot. This type of graph makes it easy to see patterns! 

 

The beep test might spark fear in the hearts of many, but we absolutely loved it. Everybody gave it their all. This left us with a really interesting set of data. We looked at a different type of graph - the Stem & Leaf. We learned about how to analyse data by finding the range, mean, median and mode. We also learnt that data always has limitations but as long as you know and make clear what they are, that's all good! 

Next we looked at how to plan an investigation. Staying with the idea of fitness data, we thought of exercises that would be easy to measure. We also talked about the idea of sampling. We don't have time to measure everyone! Here are some of the things we measured:

Plank

Sit-ups

Sprint course

Standing jump

Pull-ups

Here is an example of the plan we used:

We are data detectives! Watch out for more data analysis to come. We'll do the beep test again and compare our results later in the term. 

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.

Year 6 V The Teachers

As part of a Worser Bay tradition the Year 6 students played the teachers at Football and Netball. 

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!

Cross Country Training 2018

We will be holding our annual Cross Country event early in Term 2. Many of us are keen to improve our fitness and running. Lots of us talked about this at our goal setting meetings.  We have started training for the event in our PE time. Today we did some hill training! Everyone gave it their best shot. 

Keep up the training in the holidays!

Otari Wilton Bush

Otari Bush

Yesterday we went to Otari bush our group did a mixture of walking and running a three hour track up and down hill. I thought that a walked and ran well and my fitness levels are high. On the walk we saw kereru and tui and lots of other native birds. We also saw the 800 year old rimu tree.

I didn't have any problems with the walk fitness wise and could've easily done it again.

We walked past cows once and they suddenly stood up and gave up a bit of a fright which sent everyone running.

Nicola lead us the wrong way on a track  and we turned round and wandered back the right way.

The terrain really changed from the bottom of the hill compared to the top.

Overall I thought it was a really fun day out and would love to do it again

By Chester

Otari

The wind blows

The sun shines

The trees wave over our heads

Rimu 800 years old

Children walking, discovering, finding out

Birds fly high in the sky

Not to be seen

Kereru, tui, kaka

A rat in a trap

Huge eels swimming in the stream

Wetas causing havoc

By Lachlan and Mitchell

Otari

On the 29th of November, year four, five and six went to Otari for a walk. It was really fun. It was so refreshing and not very challenging because you could spend most of the time talking with your friends. Actually we were not allowed to talk in case we scared the birds away but we did anyway. We saw lots of different types of birds such as Kereru, Tui, Sparrows etc.     By Edie

At Otari bush walk me and my friends saw two eels. We were at the picnic spot at the end. One of the eels had bright blue eyes. We fed the eel cheese, salami, crackers and ham and they ate some of it! It was so much fun. Nick.