Akau Tangi

It was great to get back to Akau Tangi for a day of sports. We used a Growth Mindset by trying new things and getting stuck in. Trying new sports is beneficial for our bodies and minds! When you learn new things, your brain grows. When you process a positive experience it enhances Positive Emotions too!

Thank you to Lext for putting this movie trailer together: 

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. 

Swimming and Positive Health

Water is an essential part of the Kiwi identity and our students spend a lot of time at the beach, fishing off the rocks, sailing, kayaking, swimming and other water activities. Swimming lessons are a great way to teach our students how to stay safe in and around water. 

Research shows that regular exercise has lots of health benefits for children, such as:

• improving fitness
• providing an opportunity to socialise
• increasing concentration
• improving learning
• building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
• encouraging healthy growth and development
• improving self-esteem
• improving posture and balance
• lowering stress
• encouraging a better night's sleep

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!

Eastern Zones Netball

Congratulations to the Year 5 & 6 Netball teams for a wonderful team effort at the Eastern Zones Netball competition on Wednesday. Both teams showed a great team spirit and were very successful.

Swimming

This is Week 3 of swimming. Flippa Ball was lots of fun. By Thomas

Swimming was fun. We practised a lot of back stroke. By Hugo W

Today we did Flippa Ball. We played a game in teams. You have to use one hand to catch but the goalie can use two hands. By Luca

I was doing diving. We went back to the basics and went back to the boards. We did two straight jumps off the 1m boards. Then we moved up to the 3m boards. By Henry

Swimming was really fun. At the end we got to do "Seals". We had to get them from the bottom of the water. By Megan

We played water polo. It was hard to tread on water for so long. We had to put our hands in the air for 10 seconds while we were treading water. We did egg beats. Our ankles really hurt. By Haare

PE Rotation: Football

Our children love giving it a go. Physical Education and general fitness are highly valued at our school! This is John's base group playing football this afternoon.  

Family Picnic

The family picnic was lots of fun. It was great to play some games, old and new! It was great to see so many children, teachers and parents joining in.  

Worser Bay Cross Country

Well done to everyone who took part in Cross Country today. We are all very proud of your perseverance...