Sensational Soccer

Today Room 15 started our Kiwisport sessions for this term, and we're really excited to be learning .... Soccer!  We played a great game of Sharks and Islands today and learnt some great dribbling skills.  We finished our session with some short games.  We're really looking forward to next week!

Going for Gold .... on PENN

Today Room 15 were the stars on PENN.  Our movie this term highlights the importance of striving for our own gold medal and shows some of the things we have been learning during our Kiwisport Get Set Go session.

What are you doing to challenge yourself and reach gold?

Basketball Fun

Today was our first Kiwisport Basketball session.  We learnt some great bouncing and dribbling skills by playing some awesome games.  It was great to have Whaea Saff join in as well.

We can't wait for our next session!

PENN - Room 15 Golf

Today, Room 15 showcase their golfing skills for our PENN episode.  We are really enjoying our Snag Golf time but lately we have noticed that our golf balls are disappearing?  Where have they been going?  Luckily some super secret filming has uncovered the culprits.  We hope you enjoy our movie!


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"Golfing" around

Kiwisport this term for Room 15 is golf for the first five weeks.  We had our first session late last week and all learners really enjoyed learning the basic skills.

We were practicing our aim and learning about hard and soft to begin with, before we starting using the club.  It was important that our feet were pointing towards the board and our hands were together on the club to make the shot accurate as we aimed for our target.  We are looking forward to our next session!

Hooping it up at Kiwisport

For the last two weeks, Room 15 has enjoyed using the hoops at Kiwisport.  Its great to see all the different things we can do with the hoops and to see our co-ordination improve the more we do it.  By far, spinning the hoops around various parts of our bodies is the most fun!  Check out some of the things we have been doing in this collage below.

Fantastic Footballers

Last week Room 19 had another football session.  We were lucky enough to have Room 22 join in with us.  We practiced our dribbling skills and also played a game where we tried to score a goal.

Kiwisport Football

This term for Kiwisport we are learning how to play Football.  In our first session we learnt about dribbling the ball.  It was hard for us to learn the difference between a kick and a dribble but we made some great progress.  We played a game called Rob the Nest which helped us practice our dribbling.

We are looking forward to our next session with our Football coach next week!

Basketball Pros

On Thursday it was our final session of KiwiSport Basketball!  Room 19 and 20 put all the skills from the previous weeks into practice, by playing a game of basketball.  We've really been looking forward to this and it was great to see everyone having so much fun on the court.  Basketball really was the winner on the day!

Basketball Rm 19 & 20 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

A huge thanks to our amazing KiwiSports coaches over the past 9 weeks - we can see some future Tall Blacks could emerge from the basketball talent in Room 19 and 20.

Basketball Basics

Over the last few weeks we have been enjoying our basketball sessions with Coach Malik and his assistants.  We have been learning how to dribble the ball with our left and right hands and practising these skills with relays and games.

This way is left!

This way is right!

Coach showing us what to do

Basketball Brilliance

Today was our first Kiwisport session focusing on basketball.  We had lots of fun learning how to dribble the ball, roll the ball and catch the ball.  Our coaches had fun activities to help us practice these skills.

We finished our session with some great relays to further practice the skills we had learnt.  We were encouraged to cheer for our team mates and support each other as we tried to be super fast with our rolling and dribbling.

Get, Set ..... Go!

Today was our second session of Get, Set, Go with Andy.  We were learning about catching a ball.  Andy had different size balls for us to practice with and showed us how to have our hands when we catch a ball.  Room 19 and Room 16 really enjoyed the alien game at the beginning of the session and balancing bean bags on parts of our body as we moved around.

Golfing around

We had another Golf session today with Shannon.  We combined with Room 16 and it was great to see our friends as we learnt some more golf shots.

We used a new club which Shannon helped us with!

Golfing fun

Today we joined with Room 16 for Snaggit Golf with Shannon!  She had some fun activities planned to introduce us to golf.  We had coloured hoops which we had to stand in and while we were in the hoops we could roll the ball or hit it with our golf club.  Our partner, in the other hoop, helped us taking the balls off the targets.  We found the targets tricky as the balls stuck to them and were hard to take off!

Room 19 really enjoyed the golf and can't wait for our next session next Tuesday!