Physical Challenge: Survivor Day 4

This challenge was hilarious to watch unfold!  One team member was blindfolded and had to be directed by another team member to collect five coloured balls and return them to their team's hoop.  The callers were not standing anywhere near their team hoop which made it even trickier for the blindfolded person to follow.

Survivor 2012 begins!

Every year Mrs Young plays the game "Survivor" with us during the last four weeks of the term.  It's an intensive game that involves teams of three playing against each other, recording a variety of information that builds into a story of survival.  This year we have 'crashed' into the highlands of Papua New Guinea and have to survive for seven days.

We spent the first five weeks of this term getting our Survivor Diaries ready but the game officially began today.  Here we are in our teams starting to problem-solve our way to success.

One of the things we had to record today was what we were wearing.  Every item on our bodies was written down or drawn because it could be useful throughout the rest of the game.  Jenna was crafty enough to stuff her pockets this morning with handy supplies.......

Skipping

Part of our PE this term is skipping!  An exhausting activity that provided Mrs Young with a lot of entertainment.

Here are some photos from our last session where we practised all of the different skipping styles - individual, pairs and groups.  We finished off with the whole class attempting to link-skip!

Madness!!!

Room 6 Olympics Begins!!!

Today our Room 6 Olympics began with an Opening Ceremony and two events being completed.

The Opening Ceremony involved each team entering the stadium (school field) with a flag bearer at the front.  Then we had to perform something - a welcome statement, dance, song or skill associated with the country we are representing.  The Italian Team tossed pizza dough!

After the formalities we all posed for our Team photos before the first event took place.  Here are our teams.

Australia

Greece

Zimbabwe

Ireland

Italy

Singapore

Jamaica

France

Great Britain

USA

Safe Cycling: Second Practical Session

Our second practical session involved lots of obstacles!!!

First we had to practise our u-turns......

....riding through cones set out in a zig-zag.....

....biking through a straight line of cones and then buddying up with someone to ride close together through a curvy course.

To start with we thought it was easy and probably rode over more cones than we were actually avoiding but then Mrs Young decided to penalise us if we touched a cone - we had to begin that particular challenge again.  Suddenly our skill and concentration level increased because we didn't want to have to keep repeating the same task!

Then we completed a few extra challenges which looked quite easy but actually weren't.  The first part involved us riding close by a partner around the field.  After we did that a couple of times we had to keep one hand on our handlebars and the other hand on our partner's shoulder.....not so easy!

Constable Read then challenged us to increase the number of people we were riding beside and connected to.......CHAOS!!!

The final task was to ride on the obstacle course set out on the courts.  Some of the obstacles included riding through tennis balls....

.....going over a bumpy stretch of road....

....riding between two narrow hoses and looking over our shoulder to identify an obstacle....

....and trying to stay on top of a hose in a straight line.......

So far we give the programme the big 'thumbs up'!!!