October 2017
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Everyone deserved a gold medal! They are all champions! Outstanding efforts to all the Year 1 students making their best attempts to be excellent sportspersons and mathematicians. A big thank you to the Year 1 teachers (Ms. Sam, Mr. Peter, Mr. Taylor and Ms. Anu) and the Teaching Assistants (Ms Yan, Ms Rebecca, Ms. Wing and Ms. Bonnie) for organising the event. A last but not the least thank you, goes to our awesome PE teacher Mr. Andrei Anita.
Learning through Inquiry
Year 1 Maths Olympics 2017
Reporting from UISG Basketball Court Arena
The Olympic champions of Year 1 at UISG gathered at the basketball court to compete in a range of tasks that would test their physical and mathematical skills to show off their learning for their Transdisciplinary theme on ‘Who we are’! It was a competition of strength and wits!
To become the gold medal champion, they had to complete five different challenging tasks which were:
The standing long jump: Standing behind the yellow line, each child had to activate their frog sense and leapt as far as they could with both feet with all their might.
The Tower Relay: The students had to run in a relay in a bid to build the highest tower, one brick at a time. Not only did the students had to use speed to their advantage, they also had to consider how the tower could be best built. The group with the best collaboration, thinking and physical strength will determine the final result. Fact: The students showed amazing creativity in building these towers! Some were over a metre in height.
Shotput: It’s a test of real strength. Look at the students’ determination in getting their ball into the far distance. The students had to launch the shotput as well as measure the distance of their throw. Fact: Some students launched their shotput for more than 6 metres! It must be those healthy foods they have been eating at the UISG Canteen!
They also had to measure their own results and recording them on their record sheet. Fact: The length the athletes jumped did not correlate to their height. One of the furthest jumps was made by a child who was one of the shortest in the year group.
The standing high jump: The Year 1 jumped into the action to see who could place their sticky label at the highest point on the wall. Activating all their muscles on their legs, they launched into the air with ferocity and measured their results using the metre ruler.
Fact: The students reached heights they had never imagined before!