GEM Olympics Going the Extra Mile

Here is what the school council came up with for each category:

What else would you like to see in the GEM Olympic week?

Learning Challenges

Team Building Challenges

Mental Maths tests

Make your own story

Brain Training

Sudoku, puzzles, word searches, crosswords.

Sports and Health

Hurdles

Obstacles

Running races

Fun races e.g. (egg and spoon)

Long jump, javelin, high jump

Archery

Rounders

Making Healthy snacks

Promoting Healthiness

Relay races

Olympic torch carrying

Aerobics

Martial arts

Creating and Performing

Drawing

Sculpture

Teaching a class

Drama

Make things for the Olympics: torch, stars, hurdles, design your own  stadium

Singing

Make your own flags

Make a documentary/film

Painting

Finding out and explaining

Fact finding about the Olympics

Quiz about a topic

Game show

Science Fair

Presentation about a topic

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Another SMILE week has gone-what have you enjoyed

about this year’s SMILE week? Here are some comments

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Our competition starts on Monday 27th February so make sure you leave those cars at home and get walking ro cycling to school! Remember our school will gain miles and be competing against other schools in Bradford for first place.

Get those legs going and help the environment by creating less pollution at the same time as keeping fit!

Well, we’re getting closer and closer to the GEM Olympics and I don’t know about you but I’m getting excited!

The week before Christmas we had some taster sessions for the Creating and Performing category where you all did lots of Dance, Drama and Music.

On 20th January we had a taster day for the Finding Out and Explaining category.  When I’ve talked to your teachers I found out that you all spent the day doing some exciting Science invesigations and presentations.  Take a look at Year 1s pages and you can see some of the messy things that they got up to!

So now it is time to have our taster day for the Learning Challenges category. On Friday 10th February you’ll have chance to see what events you might enter for this category and have a go to see which ones you like.  Some of the things you might do are:

• Handwriting
• Reading Challenge
• Children as Teachers
• Spelling Bee
• Times Tables/mental maths
• Maths Problem Solving

Leave me a message and let me know which you think you would have a go at!

Mrs Kew

I hope you all enjoyed GEM day, I know I really did. I was just wondering which children have been showing those 6 key qualities around our school. These things are so important to be a successful learner and adult. Please let me know if you have!

Friendship, courage, determination, inspirational, excellence and respect.

You found out this morning in assembly about the exciting Bowling Park GEM Olympics! This will be a week for you to show off how you have ‘reached the stars’ and ‘gone for gold’ throughout the year.  The GEM Olympics will be held in July and you will be able to compete in different competitions and events.  These will be for lots of different areas not just sport. Maybe you’re an amazing mathematician? Or are you a whizz at spelling? Can you talk the talk and be a member of a debate team?

We would like your ideas about what you think could be an event during the GEM Olympics.  The four categories are:

• Learning Challenges
• Finding out and Explaining
• Creating and Performing
• Sports and Health

Ask your grown ups too, they might have some good ideas!

Don’t forget our 6 keys words for the GEM Olympics:

• Determination
• Courage
• Inspirational
• Excellence
• Friendship
• Respectful

How do the ideas you have fit with these words?

Get your thinking caps on and we look forward to hearing your ideas!