Swimming Self Improvement

We thought we'd share some videos and a photo of the progress we're making at swimming. It fits perfectly with our inquiry on 'Self Improvement.'

It's great when we are able to SEE ourselves swimming because it helps us gives ourselves feedback and work on our next steps.

In this picture we are working on swimming underwater using breaststroke arms. Can you see Mac down the far end, waving his arm? He swam the whole width of the pool with ONE breath! Well done, Mac!

Here you can see us working on our backstroke - thumbs up and fingers down. I can see some great straight arms and long legs, too!

We'll be swimming for the rest of this week and into next week, too. Hopefully we'll all see some great progress and be able to reflect on how much we've IMPROVED!

Our tree is coming to life...and some discus action

On Thursday we started to create the leaves that will adorn our Kauri tree. We decided thatreal life Kauri leaves were too small to make so we went for a more traditional general shape and colour. We learnt how to use a reference to create realistic texture and colour.

Google gave us lots of examples to brainstorm the right colours and textures to use an we got stuck in. In week 3 we'll get the leaves onto the tree so it doesn't look so wintery!

We're also spending some time mastering our technique for the upcoming athletics day. Thanks to all the parents who are able to give their expert advice in the afternoons. Here, Jack and Ben can be seen in front of camera letting rip on the discus.

Athletics Self Improvement

Today we started training for our athletics champs coming up very soon. This fits VERY nicely with our 'Self Improvement' focus for our inquiry this term.

Here's a video of our first session at the high jump. We all came away from the time with Mrs Sinclair with at least one thing we needed to improve to be able to jump higher. What's yours?

Photo Finish!

Today marked the start of our PE training for our athletics day coming up later in the term. We've been learning simple body posture and sprinting techniques for our running events.

In such a short time frame we could notice the differences in our sprint times just by standing in the correct starting position. It even created quite a stir as to who came first during one of our Super Teams race (Hannah and Ben pictured right, "Sorry Ben, Hannah took out that race").