Ready Steady Go

Ready Steady Go is our physical education (PE) programme for Term 2.  Nicola is our Ready Steady Go coach.  She comes to us on Thursday afternoons.  If the weather is sunny we do our PE at the bottom court behind Rooms 7 and 8.  If it is raining we go to Room 5.  Room 5 is empty at the moment.

Yesterday was Thursday but it was raining, so we had to have our PE lesson inside Room 5.  That was OK because Room 5 is big and we have lots of room to run around in.

When we arrived in Room 5 Nicola was already waiting for us.  She had lots of balls and other PE equipment for us to use.  First we greeted Nicola by welcoming her to St Patrick’s School.  Next we sat quietly and listened to Nicola’s instructions. 

After that we played a warm up game called “Happy Hats and Sad Hats”.  The hats were not real hats, Nicola used cones instead.  Before we started Nicola had turned half the hats on their sides.  These were called the Sad Hats.  The hats that were still standing up were called the Happy Hats.  One team was called the Happy Hats and the other team were called the Sad Hats.  If you were in the Happy Hat team you had to run around and pick up all of the sad cones making them happy cones.  If you were in the Sad Hat team you had to knock the cones over making them sad hats.  Both teams were very fast and we had a lot of fun playing this warm up game.

Then we were split into four teams.  We practiced our throwing and catching skills.  We got better and better at catching and throwing the ball to each other.  Nicola said that we had done a good job.  Nicola, Mrs Foden and Miss Craig helped us with our ball throwing and catching skills too.

Next we played “Piggy in the Middle” in our teams.  We had to throw the ball to the person at the back while the person in the middle had to try to catch it.  The person in the middle had to jump sometimes to catch the ball.  We laughed a lot as we got better and better at throwing and catching the ball.

Then it was almost home time so we said our going home prayer together, and thanked Nicola for teaching us PE.  We also said goodbye to Nicola and we’ll see you again next Thursday.