Monday, 14 November 2016

Year 7/8 Sports Coaching - Senior Interchange

For Senior Interchange this term we decided to allow students to choose 2 electives.  Subjects on offer: Outdoor Ed; Sports Coaching; Geography and Science.  Each interchange subject runs for 3 consecutive Thursdays, 11:30am-3pm.

Below are a selection of photos from Round 1 of Sports Coaching.

In groups, students had to plan and teach a group of Year 3/4 students.  They had to devise:
a) a warm up game;
b) a drill/skill session, and
c) a modified game.

Students were assessed on their communicative and organisational skills; along with specific skills in group management, coaching instruction and coach feedback.  

Some student instructor quotes:
"Being a teacher is hard," Aljaz.
"What do you do when kids say 'No'?" Paris D.
"They didn't listen," Molly.

I think that being a coach gave the Year 7/8s a new found appreciation for the work that teachers do on a weekly basis.  :)

Izzy L and Holly W with soccer
Caleb, Bruno and Ruairi with Ripper Rugby
Caleb, Bruno and Ruairi with Ripper Rugby
Aljaz, Connor and Yuji taught soccer
Bruno, Caleb and Ruairi's warm up game of Fruit Salad
Molly, Hannah and Madeline with a basketball skill session
Paris D and Evie took table tennis
Hannah joining in :)
Torian and Adama completing peer assessment forms
Finn & Theo's group with a warm up game of Octopus 

Physical Competency Test Photos - 21st October

Year 7/8 Police Physical Competency Test 

On Friday 21st October, two teams of four competed in the Canterbury Region Blue Light PCTcompetition (Physical Competency Test).  Team 1 consisted of Louie, Jake, Chloe and Emily; Team 2 was Noah, Conal, Annabel and Holly.  Students were selected on the basis of past athletics performances.  

Teams spent the morning participating in a variety of activities: Zumba, team building activities and the much anticipated timed Physical Competency Test (the same test that the police do as part of their entrance test).        

While neither team managed to qualify for Nationals, their behaviour was impectable and we were impressed by the way that they encouraged and supported each other throughout the morning.  Well done St Martins!

Zone Athletics Day - Wednesday 9th November

Well done to all who qualified for Zone Athletics!  We had some really impressive results on the day.  What a talented bunch of kids we have at SMS!  

Mr Pateman is finalising all of the results and is in the process of entering the top two from each event into the Canterbury Athletics (to be held in Ashburton on Wednesday 7th December).

Watch this space!
Ollianda
Madeline
Selfie - Madeline, Lia and Paris D. 
Lachlan, Sam, Leila and Evie
Kayley
Caleb
Ben - 3rd from right
Conal - 4th from left
Jake