Physical Education is a well-established part of our curriculum at Worser Bay School. In Tautoru, we often teach isolated PE lessons twice a week. As there are so many different curriculum areas and important lessons kids need to learn, we teachers get a little creative in how we manage to fit everything in. We also often use our morning 'Wake up your brain' time to practise and reinforce the skills we have learnt in our PE lessons.
These PE lessons are skills based and reflect the New Zealand Curriculum. At the moment in Tautoru, some groups are skipping, others are learning about hitting and striking with bats and small balls. While others are learning about throwing and accuracy. We are learning so many great things!
Character Strengths come into play in every lesson. Now, skipping is an incredibly difficult skill to learn! There are so many different aspects to it. There's the jumping with two feet, the co-ordination of swinging the rope over your head, making sure your back stays up right, jumping at the right time and then repeating this over and over. At the beginning of the skipping unit, we heard many saying statements like "this is too hard! I can't do it!" We worked on our Growth Mindset, Perseverance, Resilience among many other character strengths. Today Mikayla's base group finished their learning unit on skipping and their were many faces of joy, others with focus, determined to master the two feet jump skipping before the PE lesson was over. I even heard some children mentioning that they were going to ask for a skipping rope for Christmas!
Check out some of the snapshots of our awesome learning curve.
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