What fitness activities have you been doing in your bubble?

We love all of the creative ways that you have been keeping fit in your bubble. It has been great to see you working on your strength, flexibility and endurance to improve your Positive Health. 

Some students have been helping around the house as part of their physical activity:

 

Some martial arts...



Yoga...



Fitness in the garden...

A fitness video for others to follow...

Some running... 

Perseverance with skipping...

Fitness with Joe...

Yoga for "Wake up the Brain"

Gabrielle led a yoga session with all students in the senior area. We are keen to get all of our students trying new activities for "Wake up the Brain". What a great way to start the day!

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Our students have been running their own "Wake up the brain" yoga sessions. They have enjoyed the Cosmic Kids Yoga sessions. You can access them: https://sites.google.com/a/worserbay.school.nz/matarikiwbs/morning-wake-up/yoga

Speaking of Wellbeing and Positive Education, here is a note from last week's newsletter: 

Student Wellbeing Parent Workshop - Tues 22 August

Our Student Wellbeing Parent Workshop is coming up fast on Tuesday 22 August at 6.45pm.

Student wellbeing, or actually wellbeing in general, is being talked about, written about, thought about wherever we turn. Wanting our children to grow up resilient, adaptable, open to new experiences and feeling good and doing good has to be something we all want. It's not just a grab bag of feel good 'stuff' - there is a science behind this.

Eighteen months ago we introduced what is known as Positive Education. “Positive Education is the bringing together of the science of wellbeing with best-practice teaching to enable individuals to thrive.” We are looking forward to sharing a bit of background, the model we use and some of the outcomes we have had with you on the 22nd.

We will hear first hand from some children, get to experience some of the activities and a couple of our parents will also be linking this with life outside school. Plus, Board members will introduce you to our Online School Policy site 'Schooldocs', many of which link in some shape or form to student wellbeing.

I'm sure you will have plenty to contribute to the discussion. It's a great chance to chat about what you do at home already in this sphere and also learn from others. That's what a community is all about. Let's grow and work together to build a strong foundation where our children can flourish.

We aren’t making a choice between wellbeing or academic pursuits as there isn’t a choice to be made!

Wake up your brain with yoga

 We have been doing some yoga for wake up the brain. Here we are doing wheel pose or a variation. Back bends give you lots of energy and vitality. They are energising!

Wake up your brain!

 How do you choose to wake up your brain? We have a choice of three activities, the usual ones are: boot camp, yoga and singing. Sometimes we can also choose drama, running or skipping. Here are some photos of some of the yoga sessions. We've been so fortunate with the weather this term that we've been able to do yoga outside every day (well, except one).

We do at least two sun salutations everyday because we always balance the body when we're doing yoga. Then we do a variety of poses, partly depending on children's preferences. We've done a few handstands this week. Sometimes we finish with a little meditation or bee breathing where we block our ears and bzzzzzzz. Give it a try, what do you hear?

Yoga in the sunshine

What a lovely day! We did our yoga session in the beautiful sunshine.

Morning Yoga

We often start the day with a "wake your brain up" activity. We can choose what we do.

These are some of our photos from our yoga session this morning:

A Great Way to Start the Day!

We started the day with a choice of yoga, singing or fitness.

Eloise: Yoga is a good way to stretch in the morning!

Juliette: Singing is a good way to start the day as it makes you happy!

Gretel: Fitness is a great way to start the day because it warms you up and it got my brain working!