Barnburgh Primary School - Athletics Competition

Athletics Competition

The whole school were invited to take part in the Doncaster School Games Athletics Competition w/b Monday 1st February. Our in school learners completed this competition in school during their PE session. Our Nursery learners also completed this competition during this week.

Our at home learners in all year groups, completed this competition at home and sent their results into school. All the entries were sent to the competition organisers. We finished as follows: the Year 6 Team were 2nd in Doncaster, 34th in South Yorkshire and the Year 5 team were 4th in Doncaster, 95th in South Yorkshire.

We used all the results we collected to find a winner of each event in each class under the categories Boys and Girls. All these children will receive a certificate for winning their event and every child who competed will receive a participation award. Please see the table below for all the winners.

		Standing Long Jump	Chest Push	Speedbounce	Shuttle Run	Vertical Jump
Nursery	Boys	Noah S	Finlay	Marny	Marny	Noah S
Nursery	Girls	Clemmie	Connie	Eleanor/Nell	Connie	Connie
Reception	Boys	Ralph	Buddy	Ralph	Alistair	Fletcher
Reception	Girls	Bella/Isabel F	Bella	Florence	Bella	Bella
Year 1	Boys	Henley/Kale	Ewan/Noah	Kale	Logan	Henley
Year 1	Girls	Jessica F	Heidi	Eden	Eden	Jessica F
Year 2	Boys	Lenny	Lenny/Isaac	Lenny	Lenny	Jake
Year 2	Girls	Freya	Esme	Brogan/ Charley	Esme	Charley
Year 3	Boys	Tommy	Liam/Denny/Alfie	Ben	Liam	Liam
Year 3	Girls	Hetty	Hetty	Annalise	Olivia	Jessica
Year 4	Boys	Hughie	Archie	Lucas	Lucas	Obaid
Year 4	Girls	Milly T	Ellie	Alexia	Martha	Eva/Alexia
Year 5	Boys	Oliver W	Reggie	Thomas	Reggie	Reggie
Year 5	Girls	Amelia	Lillia	Amelia	Brooke	Lizzie
Year 6	Boys	Tyler	Franky	Noah	Harrison	Franky
Year 6	Girls	Lucy	Emma	Holly	Mayah	Mayah

Vertical Jump

Rules:

The athlete stands with their back, head and heels touching the wall.
Both arms should be stretched upwards over their head.
Measure where they can reach to and write this on the recording sheet.
The athlete should then stand sideways to the wall with their jumping arm closest to the wall.
They should jump from a standing position and touch the wall as high as they can.
Measure where they can reach by jumping and write this in the next box on the recording sheet.

10 x 10m Shuttle Run

Rules:

The athlete must stand behind a starting line.
They must have a 10m space to run in (or 5m and run 20 times).
They need to be timed.
Start the timer as they start to run.
Run the 10m distance 10 times and then stop the timer.
Record the time taken on the recording sheet.

Chest Push

Rules:

The athlete should hold the ball in both hands to their chest with their hands turned out.
They should stand on a starting spot/line.
The athlete should throw/push the ball out from their chest.
The distance from where the athlete started to where the ball first landed/bounced needs to be measured and recorded on the recording sheet.

Speed Bounce

Rules:

Speed Bounce is a two-footed jump.
The athlete must take off and land on both feet.
The athlete should stand on one side of the wedge.
Start the timer and stop at 20 seconds.
Count how many times the athlete jumps over the wedge in 20 seconds and record this on the recording sheet.

Standing Long Jump

Rules:

The athlete must start with both feet behind a starting line.
They should bend their knees into a crouch and swing their arms to get the best technique for jumping.
From their standing position, the athlete should jump as far as they can making sure they land on both feet.
Measurement should be taken from the starting line to the back on the closest heel on landing.
Record this on the recording sheet.

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