Physical Development of our learners

Hello. My name is Mrs Bates and I'm a teacher at Vista Nova School (Western Cape) where I teach grades 3. My dream is called "Physical Development of our learners" and is geared towards the following learning areas: Life Orientation.

"To realise my dream I need to raise R2784.38 which will benefit 45 learners. That works out to R62 per learner. We haven't received any funding for this dream yet."

The venue is at Gordon’s Gymnastics Club. It will be 3 hours long. The Gym has offered us a reduced price of R50. This works out to R17 per hour. We have our own bus transport but a charge of R5 is asked of the parents to cover this – the amount would be R55 per learner altogether.

Our children come from all over the peninsula and never have a chance to play at each other’s homes. Gymnastics in this form does not exist at school and none of them have ever done proper gym before. None of them can afford to take gymnastics privately. Their being of an energetic nature these children will adore the opportunity to exercise in this large well equipped, well supervised and safe environment.

Physical Development and Movement is Learning Outcome 4 (LO4) in Life Orientation. The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of, and participate in, activities that promote movement and physical development.

This means that physical and motor development is integral to the holistic development of learners. It makes a significant contribution to learners’ social, personal and emotional development. Play, movement, games and sport contribute to developing positive attitudes and values. This area focuses on perceptual motor development, games and sport, physical growth and development, recreation and play.

It would be great for learners be taught by professional coaches for once and have a supervised lesson that caters to their special needs in an environment that provides the safety they need.l And having some varied activities that they would normally not do at school.

This would be a good bonding time together as they have few opportunities to really express themselves physically. They spend much of the day pouring over their books.

After this experience they will have tried something new, felt satisfaction and gained a new skill or experience they hadn’t had the opportunity to try before. Their horizons will have been extended to an extra mural exercise away from the usual school routine. Trying new things whets an appetite for other life experiences producing braver and more curious adventurers.

Learning Outcomes

Learning Area: Life Orientation
Learning Outcomes: 4 Physical Development and Movement

Safety, Warm up, Rope Skipping, Dominant Movement Patterns, Trampoline work, Free Play.

Learning Area: Literacy
Learning Outcomes: 2,3 & 6 Listening and speaking, Vocabulary and sentence work, Reading and Comprehension

After the outing the children will talk about, and write about the interesting activities they did and how they benefited from the gym class. Later on a comprehension exercise will be based on the written exercises. A reading passage will also develop out of their written work. They will also have to listen to the gym instructor and be able to follow instructions. They will learn new vocabulary and also safety rules.

Resources

3 hour lesson at Gordon's Gym

R50x45 = R2250 Entrance fee

R5x45 = R225 bus transport

Total = R2475,00

Total budget = R 2784.38
This includes a 12.5% admin fee to cover the camera, co-ordination and follow-up.