Sec 1 Track & Field Lessons (High Jump- Kampong Style)

Having introduced students to approach and take-off techniques for High Jump, I decided to try another approach in developing the fundamental techniques for jumping.

So today, we went back to 'old school' kampung games :) we did rope skipping and 'zero point'

Half the class attempted their approach and take-off at the High Jump mattress, while the other half did co-ordination drills with the skipping rope: learning to play 'Zero Point' (yes, I know it's a girl's game but even as a young boy, I played it too- strange that our boys never seem to have heard of it!)

Then the boys tried co-ordinated skipping to work on timing and co-ordination.
Quite a refreshing change today from our usual drills :) Looks like the boys had fun too!

Sec 2 Hockey Lessons (Skill Circuit)

In this lesson, we see Sec 2A going through the Hockey skill circuit:

Station 1
Shooting Station

Station 2
Dribbling Station

Station 3
Lob and Juggle

Station 4
Passing and Trapping
See clip:


By now, the boys will have covered all the essential skills needed for them to play hockey and we will be giving them more game time
Today's small-sided game is 6 v 6 with periodic substitutions.
Scoring is against the flat side of the wooden gym bench.
See clip:

QUIZ
Why use a wooden bench rather than a goal post or cones- what is the advantage in this case?

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TIPD Exchange Programme from UK- Matt Hogan's Soccer Lesson

Today, Matt gamely offered to take on one of our classes for Soccer.
As as we can see in the clip below, the class of Sec 3H showed us the World's Fastest Goal scoring attempt!

VS IGCSE Sharing for PE HOD DDM Group & TIPD UK Group

On Mon 26th Feb, VS PE Dept hosted 7 PE HODs under-going their DDM (Diploma in Departmental Management) to give a sharing on our implementation of PE as a GCE O-Level subject.
We shared with them the rationale for our initiative as well as how we approached crafting the proposal.
Although the sharing was amongst HODs, the mood was very informal and casual, we shared frankly and openly amongst each other what we felt were the various opportunities that VS saw in pushing for such a programme as well as the problems and obstacles we needed to surmount and overcome.

Our guest, Matt Hogan from Eaton Bank School in UK also gave us more insights into the UK Examination system where they have different exam boards delivering the same exam (i.e. the AQA, the Edexcel, OCR) Due to the differences in size, operation and educational concerns; Matt was able to shed light on the differences in practices in implementing the O-levels in the UK.

Matt also gave us a brief tour of Eaton Bank's VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).
See clip below:

He has kindly furnished me with a guest account. Interested teachers who want to tour their site, please contact me.

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