Gymnastics

During Term One all children at St Paul the Apostle School participate in weekly gymnastic lessons. They are run by a qualified gymnastics teacher and supervised by the classroom teacher. Through out the program the children's skills are continually built upon and the activities become more complex. 

Physical activity is so beneficial to children as it helps stimulate their brains and combats childhood obesity. Emily, the gymnastics teacher, often challenges the children to continue to stretch their muscles even when they are watching the television, so the next time you see you child sitting enjoying some tv time maybe you could ask them to show you how to do the butterfly?

The children enjoy actively joining in with gymnastics lessons. You can find this weeks blog below:

An Afternoon At Gymnastics

 At gymnastics we start off with a warm up game. Our teacher's name is Emily. After our game Emily picks five leaders and then she numbers the class 1,2,3,4,5. After the children go to the right group we start the different activities.

Activity One: cartwheels or bunny hops if you can't do cartwheels. Then we use the hoola hoops.

Activity Two: balance beam with kicks followed by the lower balance beam while balancing a bean bag on our head.

Activity Three: Handstands and ring toss. The ring toss is harder than it looks!

Activity Four: Forward rolls and bunny hops

Activity Five: Mini tramp while doing a tuck. The hop through the hoops.

(Photos and blog by Patrick, Monique, Hannah and Samuel)

Check out the photos:

Balancing on the beam.

Cartwheels are harder than they look.

Count to ten before you come down.

Mini tramp is so much fun.

The children do the butterfly as part of the warm up.

They also enjoy happy cat.