After School Clubs (19)
The year 3 and 4 after school football club has begun. We start each session with warm up exercises followed by full body stretches. We then practice key skills including dribbling the ball and passing to other players in our team. Finally, we play a match where each player is encouraged to put their skills into action, and demonstrate team work as they play against the other side.
Football Club for Years 1 and 2 runs on a Tuesday after school with Miss Wester and Mrs Dudley. It is an exciting chance for budding footballers to learn new skills and find out about how a real football game is played. We begin with a warm up each week stretching and exercising the different parts of our bodies. We then focus on specific skills such as dribbling, passing, defending or shooting. We split into teams to play in mini-tournament football games in which we build our skills each week and practise playing in different positions, remembering where each player should be placed during the game. Football club is a fun opportunity to learn about football, it is for children who play everyday and for those who have never played before.
After the past successes of ‘Oliver’ and ‘Joseph and his Technicoloured Dreamcoat' the Musical Theatre club is back, bigger and better than ever and preparing for this year’s performance of 'Annie'.
The cast are rehearsing in lunchtimes at school and after school each Thursday which involves singing and dancing whilst in character. After Christmas we will be involving both the textiles and art clubs to desgin, make and paint props and costumes for the production. The cast will be ready to perform their production in June 2012.
Here is a short synopsis of the musical 'Annie'.
Set in New York in the 30's, Annie lives in an ophanange run by Miss Hannigan who is a sleazy, fairly unpleasant character. Annie was left as a baby with a letter saying her parents would return for her one day, and the thought of this keeps her going! One day after escaping for a while, and finding a dog, she is returned by a policeman and is about to be punished by Miss Hannigan when Grace Farrell arrives. She is the secretary to Mr. Warbucks the millionaire. He wishes to give an orphan a holiday in his grand home for Christmas, and Grace chooses Annie. Annie is immediately loved by everyone, including Warbucks, who asks her if she would like to be adopted by him. Although Annie tells him she would love to stay she is waiting to be reunited with her real mother and father. Warbucks then tries to help Annie find her parents by offering a reward for them to come forward. When Miss Hannigan hears of this she hatches a plan with her brother Rooster, who is a rogue, and he, along with his girlfriend Lily, pretend to be Annie's long lost parents.......
You will have to wait until our show to find out whether it will be a happy ending for Annie......
In craft club we have begun to make memo clips. We have used the template of an elephant or a cat which we are decorating and adding features to including googly eyes and sequins. We will then attach our template to a clothes peg to create our memo clip which can be used to hold important things together like photographs. Later in the term, we also hope to make photo frames.
Reading Club is on a Thursday and is run by Mrs Dudley and Miss Wester. It is for children in Foundation and Year 1. At Reading Club we begin by reading a story together and then discuss what the story is about. We may look closely at the characters in the story, where the story is set and beginnings, middles and ends of the story. After that, we do a craft activity based around the story. As a start, we will read the Mr Men and Little Miss series of books and then we will look at 'The Circus' as a theme. We will read a collection of circus stories and make labels, bookmarks and masks.
Extending links with Killerton House, the after school running club has been lucky enough to be able to enjoy the running courses up through the forest in the grounds on a weekly basis. Every Thursday, 3.45pm-4.45pm the running club takes place after school
Run In England, funded, by the Sports Council met us there on the first week, established some courses, laid some distance stakes, and led the first session of exercises including short sprints, timed shuttle runs and a long distance.
The members of the club are committed to improving their fitness, stamina and distance and are recording them every week in order to see the improvement. They have been enjoying the marked forest tracks as well as challenging Miss Cavallo, Mrs Walkerdine and, occasionally, Mr James!!
Tag Rugby Club runs on Wednesdays from 3.30-4.45pm, for Years 3-4 and Years 5-6.
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What do you need? Lots of energy and enthusiasm... and a pair of rugby or football studs for the field!
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Why play Tag Rugby? Most importantly because… Tag Rugby is fun and exciting, and both boys and girls, of all abilities, can play ! (Oh, and also because we play with a funny, egg-shaped ball, which can be highly amusing, though sometimes frustrating!)
At Broadclyst, boys and girls in Tag Rugby Club practice the basic skills of teamwork, defending, handling and passing, to more specific drill training and games. We play lots of fun games and activities to put the skills necessary to Tag Rugby into practice, and in the wet winter months, children and teachers, both, have lots of outdoor fun getting muddy on the field!
Over the past few years the school has competed consistently in the annual Exeter Chiefs local schools Tag Rugby tournament at Sandy Park, which we aim to take part in again this year. With a keenly competitive spirit, the Tag Rugby teams at Broadclyst have always shown great sportsmanship and been equally popular with both boys and girls. Last year Year 4 pupils at Broadclyst also participated in the MBNA Tackling Numbers Tag Rugby Festival 2011 at Sandy Park. Further into the year, we hope to arrange some friendlies with other local schools too!
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The History… Tag Rugby was pioneered by PE Teacher Nick Leonard in England in 1990 following an idea given to him by an ex service man called Barry Johns. He described to Nick how navy servicemen on board ship or whilst playing on hard grounds overseas used the removal by defenders of bits of cord tucked down players shorts to simulate a tackle in rugby. Nick Leonard then devised a set of rules suitable for children using belts and coloured ribbons attached by Velcro and organised the first ever schools Tag Rugby festival at UCP Marjons, Plymouth in 1991. This annual event celebrated its 20th festival in 2011.
Why not traditional ‘Touch Rugby’? Because Tag Rugby:
- shows clearly when a tackle is made and prevents arguments!
- takes the 'tackler' out of the game (momentarily) as would happen in full contact rugby, allowing more
- time and space for the attacking team.
- encourages the correct lines of running required for success in the full 15-a-side game.
- is non-contact.
Wednesdays 3.30-4.45
This club offers a range of design and build projects for children in year six. Our projects will include hovercrafts, picture frames and gliders, to name but a few. Members will learn to prepare designs, as well as use a variety of tools and construction methods in a safe and fun environment. There will also be plenty of opportunities to test finished products and discuss the best ways of overcoming the challenges that each project provides.