PE
Fitness - Lesson 5
This week P3A participated in a circuit of individual exercises. This week's focus was to challenge yourself at each station. We discussed the importance of regular exercise. From age five and over, children need to exercise for an average of at least 60 minutes per day across the week. You don't need to do one activity for an hour. You can spread your activity throughout the day. Remember if you play football or exercise at breaktime this counts towards your 60 minute exercise a day!
Fitness - Lesson 4
This week P3A participated in a circuit of individual exercises. This week's focus was to try to develop strength at each station. We learned that a person will breathe more quickly during exercise so that their lungs can breathe in the oxygen their body needs and then get rid of the carbon dioxide produced through exercise.
Fitness - Lesson 3
This week P3A participated in a circuit of individual exercises. This week's focus was to try to improve your technique at each station. We completed some fantastic fitness activities in PE today taking into account spatial awareness and patterns of movement. We understand that regular physical activity is essential to maintain good physical and mental health.
Fitness - Lesson 2
This week P3A participated in a circuit of individual exercises. This week's focus was to try to beat your personal best. We discussed the meaning of the terms 'Heart rate' and 'Pulse'. We also discussed how our heart helps pump blood around our body and our lungs help get oxygen to our muscles.
Fitness - Lesson 1
This week P3A participated in a circuit of individual exercises. This week's focus was to keep control while performing exercises. We discussed the importance of pace of movement to improve control of our muscles.
Indoor Athletics - 🏃🏼♂️➡️ Lesson 1 🏃🏻♀️
This week we joined with P3B for indoor athletics. Six stations were set up for the children to rotate around in groups. We worked on our ability to chest pass a ball, practised aiming at a designated target, long jump, triple jump, standing jump and skipping with hoops. We will continue to work on improving our skills in each of these areas in our next session.
Teamwork!
On our first trip to the Ballymote Centre for PE we took some time to practise listening skills and teamwork. Skills that the children would need to use effectively throughout our PE sessions. The children had lots of fun using the parachute to play a variety of team games including ‘Mushroom’, ‘Making Waves’, ‘All Change’, and ‘Popcorn’. We then played some team ball games which really got heartbeats racing.
