Year 8 Cheerleading Program

Our Year 8 students have been participating in a series of Cheerleading incursions provided by ‘Proactivity’. This activity promotes teamwork and cooperation among students, which is important in creating a positive school culture. The students are taught different techniques such as stunts, tumbling, jumps and dance routines. These sessions help improve their strength, flexibility, coordination and cardiovascular fitness. Additionally, they learn how to work as a team and coordinate their movements. Overall, cheerleading is proving to be an enjoyable and thrilling activity that brings happiness to all participants.

Year 9 Self-Defence Sessions

Year 9 students are learning some valuable life skills in the Self-Defence program they are undertaking, also provided by ‘Proactivity’. Not only does self-defence allow children to tangibly defend themselves against physical attacks, it also sparks various benefits to them in everyday life. The program covers various self-defence techniques including blocking, striking and controlling techniques, tips/ideas e.g. what to do when you’re at an ATM – don’t put your purse underneath your arm, and awareness scenarios e.g. safety at a party and knowing your surroundings.

Coming Up This Term

This term, our VCE VET Sport and Recreation students will be attending the St Kilda Football Club in the last week of Term 3 to participate in a recovery session which will help those students apply their current learning about conditioning for sport.

Coming Up Next Term

During PE, Year 10 students will be focusing on fitness in a group of Fitness Training incursions.

Year 9 students will attend a Relationships Seminar hosted by ‘Elephant Education’. It will cover and discuss the moral and ethical dilemmas that come with sexual relationships, peer pressure around sexual activity and relationships, scenarios applying consent and will unpack stages of sexual activity (before, during and after).

Meanwhile, Year 8 students will be learning some important water safety skills during their Lifesaving Sessions late in Term 4 with the Mentone Lifesaving Club. We look forward to scoping out their new facilities.

A reminder that the Year 8 students will also take part in an ‘Elephant Education’ seminar for Health that equips students with strategies to critically analyse everyday sexualised images and focuses on distortions around consent and body image.

Daniel Kelly
Learning Leader: Health and Physical Education