This half term Year 4 have been introduced to a new sport, badminton.
On the 10th of October, we had a visit from players of the Newcastle Eagles basketball team, including the head coach Fabulous Flournoy for the Hoops4Health roadshow. Once we all went into the hall, we were introduced to the players and they explained why they were visiting, including what we would be doing during the afternoon.
We started by talking about how we can be healthy, keeping ourselves hydrated and ways to exercise more. We warmed up by stretching our muscles; little muscles, like the eyebrows and shoulders, and our big muscles, like our legs and bums.
Meeting our coach Fabulous Flournoy
Warming up our little muscles…
…and then our bigger muscles
Increasing our heart rates
Little bit of dancing to warm up
Finding our hearts
Next we talked about the most important muscle in our body: the heart. We found where it was, what size it was and how to find our pulse. Our pulses were quicker when doing exercise and slower when inactive. To prove this we did 10 seconds of active movement, such as sprinting on the spot, press ups and star jumps.
After our exercise, we did three different workshops about staying healthy. One workshop was about hydration and how important it is to keep us healthy. We now know loads of facts about water, let’s see how much you know: (Answers will be at the bottom, try not the cheat)
Working out the water questions.
Q1. How much of the earth is covered with water?
Q2: How much of the water in the world is available for us to drink?
Back in the hall, we completed drills to keep our heart rates up. These drills included dribbling relays – using both our hands – and passing the ball around our waists and between our legs.
Dribbling with both hands
Passing the ball around our waists…
Don’t drop the ball!
…and around our legs.
In the final workshop we thought about ‘feeling good’ and looked at our well-being. We looked at recognising things we are good at when at home, school and in sport.
Q3: rearrange these letters to make a word – W E M T K O A R
We all came back to the hall, with our golden tickets for a Newcastle Eagles match. Our afternoon ended with a competition for some prizes. When Fab bounced the ball we had to clap, if we clapped and he didn’t bounce the ball, we were out.
Watching and remembering to clap
Concentrating
Quickly, we began to fall. The final 4 people got prizes, with the final between Jessica and Hannah. The overall winner was Jessica, who won free tickets for her whole family to go VIP to an Eagles match.
Our winners of the game with the coaches.
Answers:
1: 2/3 (around 66%)
2: 1%
3: teamwork
The school football season has started again in the last couple of weeks and a strong Harton team have continued to dominate the Coyne League. In their last four games the results have been:
Harton 10 v 0 SS Peters and Pauls
Harton 5 v 0 Westoe Crown
Harton 3 v 0 Marsden
Harton 3 v 0 St Oswalds.
At the end of the season the boys have won every game without conceding a goal and scoring 41 goals in the process.
Well done boys.
The champions!
Our School Council members have been carefully counting your cans of food. They were thrilled to find that our first ‘Canny Friday’ resulted in 249 cans being collected for the South Tyneside Food Bank.
We’re looking forward to our next Canny Friday (17th March) already!
On Wednesday, the 1st of March, 12 pupils from Year 4 took part in a Boccia festival at St Josephs R.C. Academy. Despite this being a new sport introduced to the borough, and the children never having played a game before, they were able to finish 4th out of 24 teams that entered narrowly losing a semi final to the eventual winners. All the children really enjoyed themselves and look forward to playing the game again in the future.
On Monday 13th of February 50 pupils from Year 4 took part in a tag rugby tournament at Kingtson Park. This tournament was organised by Newcastle Falcons who have been coming in to school every week to work with all the children in Year 4. The children had a great time and won every game they played against different schools.
This half term the children in the nursery have been visited by the staff from The Foundation of Light. All the children are taking part in Little Dribblers sessions and as you can see they are clearly enjoying themselves.
Last week the schools football teams played 4 games. On Wednesday our B team, which included several Year 5 children making their debuts, played Mortimer Year 6 team and lost 6-1. In the second game they beat SS Peters and Pauls 2 -0 .
On Thursday night the A team played a top of the table clash against St Oswalds. A fantastic performance saw the boys win 1-0 with a goal from Mason. In the second game of the night the boys ran out 2-0 winners over Mortimer with another goal for Mason and a superb strike for Luke.
Well done boys.
On Thursday the boys played two more league fixtures at Temple Park.
In the first game they over came a good Westoe Crown team 2-0 with goals fromHarrison and Owen. The man of the match Jay was outstanding at the back.
In the second game they beat the previously unbeaten Marsden team 2-0 with only a superb goal keeping display preventing as much higher score. Goals for Mason and man of the match Harrison sealed the win. Once again the boys played some fantastic football.
The boys played two fixtures last night at Mortimer.
In the first game the boys played some fantastic football and ran out 3-1 winners over a good Ashley Primary School team. Goals for Harrison, Luke and man of the match Mason meant the boys came out on top.
In the second game the boys continued to play some lovely football but were not able to compete physically with a much larger Westoe Crown team and lost the game 4-0. The boys were better than the score line suggests and only good goal keeping and the woodwork prevented them from scoring. Man of the match was Jay.
