PAL - Indoor Sports

I am glad to be our class PAL teacher this year.
It is a great 4 periods of good bonding time to instill social & emotional skills in the children. Above all I also enjoyed the bonding time with them as we carry out "non-academic" lessons with them .

Here are some photos of our first PAL lesson with Hula hoops. The pupils learned about creating personal space for the safety of tehir friends.

The highlight was learning how to do a "Boomerang roll" . One where you roll the hula hoop out and it will roll back to you. Howard and Lucas were our class experts and we got them to teach us the technique. I saw happy faces of pupils who mastered it and the proud faces of the "experts when their friends got it.

I got them to chat about their feelings when they did not master it. We discussed about perseverance and not giving up. We discussed about helping our friend in need and how they feel when they helped their friends.

                                              Lucas with the boomerang roll. His first roll at the
                                              beginning of the video was impressive!

Spin with our arms 

Kierren doing a throw and spin