Day 4: My favourite lesson 'Atletiek'

Well I was wide awake after 1hr of Athletiek (athletics) this morning that started at 8am....

There were 35-40 children from primary to grade 12 on the field taking part in different activities. Most Fridays there is an athletic meet for the primary students and most Saturday’s a meet for the 14+. Last week one of the primary school boys competed in the 14+ and came 2nd in the 100m - brilliant!

The lesson started with the opwarm (warm up) and was followed by

• 100m
• 200m
• 400m
• Gewigstoot (Shot putt)
• Diskus (Discus) &
• Verspring (Long Jump)

I took a couple of Flip camera's out on the field and moved around the field, filming little clips of each group. I then showed and spoke to the teacher's why, here's a few;

• You can get the students to film & analyse their fellow students actions to show them how to improve their movements/performance. 
• Enables the student who's doing the movement to review and evaluate their own personal progress in athletics.
• Make the lesson more fun/engaging - it's great when you're the person throwing the shot/discus, running to see how far you can jump but if you're the last in a group of 15 :(
• On the phones there's a stop watch, get them to time sprints/laps

The teacher's will now try m-learning on the field – result

The rest of the day was spent in lesson's working with what was introduced to them. Tomorrow is feedback time.

Once school was out, teacher Pam February very kindly took me to Hermanus, a beautiful town & known to be the 'Whale watching capital of the world' . We walked around the, now very touristy town, and saw some amazing views with the mountains as a back drop to the beach.