Final Flag Football

After learning lots of skills during Term 2, it was finally time to play a full game of Flag Football at our last Kiwisport session yesterday. Coach Will and Coach Donna have taught us so much: huddle, cadence, snap, scrimmage, touchdown!  Such fun!

Our First Flag Football

This term's Kiwisport is learning how to play Flag Football.  It is a non-contact version of Grid Iron.  At our first session today Coach Will taught us how to hold and carry the ball correctly.  When we hold and throw this football, it is different to rugby.  We have to be more precise because some fingers have to spread over the lace.  When we are running with the ball, there are three holding points:

1. Hand - index finger over the tip
2. Touching the inside of wrist and forearm
3. Ball firmly against our side.

I wonder what we will learn about next week?

Kī o Rahi

It was finally time to play the full game of Kī o Rahi yesterday after learning and practising different parts of the game with our Kiwisport coaches, Alan and Puti, throughout the term.  It was so much fun putting all the elements together as we worked together in our teams. We all had a chance to be both taniwha and kīoma.  What an amazing opportunity!

Let the games begin!

We were so excited to attend to our first Kiwisport session for 2018 today. Coach Mark is going to teach us how to play Ki-o-Rahi. He explained how the legend of Rahitutakahina (Rahi) inspired the game which Māori warriors played to keep fit and ready for battle!  We ran, chased and dodged each other playing Taniwha and Kīoma so he could check out our skills.

Let's dig!

Renée from Kiwisport is teaching us how to play volleyball this term. Today we were practising digging the ball a short distance to each other. It was pretty tricky hitting the volleyball softly to our buddies. If the ball wasn't coming straight towards us, Renée said we had to scuttle like crabs towards the ball to get ourselves in the right position to make that volley.

Rallying ahead

We are learning to play tennis with Kiwisport this term. Now that we're able to smash those forehands around the hall, we're learning how to hit a backhand. We're hoping that the weather is kind so that we can practise our skills outside on the courts next week.

Finding our way around school!

At orienteering yesterday we were learning to read a map of Point England School to find our way around: Which way is north? Where are we? What do those symbols mean?

We shared a map with a buddy and one of us placed a thumb on our map to show where we were.  As we walked, we moved our thumb along to track our journey around school.  Even though it was tricky to begin with, we were all pretty good at "thumbing" by the end of the session.

What is orienteering?

So, what's orienteering?  We had our first session with Leon from Kiwisport today to learn what's involved and what we will be doing.  We will be learning to find our way around by reading maps and learning lots of different symbols.  We'll find out more next week!

Giving it a go at hockey

Kiwisport came to teach us awesome hockey skills in Term 1. After choosing the right size stick, it was time to learn how to dribble, pass and shoot the ball. We showed off our awesome skills and how much we had learnt by playing mini-games in our final coaching sessions.