Whoops!

So I just realised that in between the Kununurra athletics trip and holidays, I forgot to report about the Jump Rope for Heart wrap up!!! This will throw out the chronologicality of le blog but I'm sure most of you will forgive me :)

Basically throughout the term while I took classes for skipping, I wrote down 3 people's names and gave them 1, 2 or 3 points and then at the end of the term, whoever had the most points won prizes!
Pressure was on when I was handed over all responsibility organising the schedule, prizes and MCing duties.

We started with each class showing off some of their new skills they'd learnt with a 'So Fresh' CD pumping in the background. I think the kids knew the songs better than us...

Ah, the ol' spinning around the arm trick aye? (No seriously, thats one of the tricks..)

Anyway, we then held a series of mini competitions to give out some minor prizes. There was a lot of improvising going on (cheers Miss Tidemann! J) because although I'd roughly picked who was going to be in each game, it was late in the term so there was not many kids there so while I was talking I was trying to spot someone who wasn't having a go. First we had a students vs. Rick skip off which all the kids loved watching and Rick was very satisfied with his efforts!

Look at that elevation!

We then had a competition to see which class as a whole could skip the longest in a big rope which was great to see the kindy kids not embarrassed by their excellent efforts! But we all witnessed something extremely rare and that was the secondary class actually working together and they gave it a real go and just won!

Ready To Rope!

Excellent Teamwork From PRMB

DAMN IT ROBYN!!!

The last event was a teachers vs. students long rope challenge. It was an extremely tight result with it coming down to Freena and Sister Nola but Freena took out the win for the students!

Nola - The Athlete!

Finally we gave out the prizes. Again like picking for the games, there were a lot on on the spot decisions but luckily for the 8 prizes given, I made a list of about 22 so if someone wasn't there the next person won it. In the end, the 20th person on the list got a basketball prize and the top 3 weren't even there on the day so 3 lucky kids went home on a brand new Razor Scooter!

Robyn With Her New Scooter

Have You Ever Seen Someone More Proud?!? GO DELWYN!!!

I swear I've already written about all of this... oh well. I have to say, I was extremely chuffed with the compliments I got from the staff about my running of the day and especially from Mr Kim Dallard who works with the CEO but has seen a lot of teachers and really knows his stuff so I was pretty happy about it. Plus I got a free T-shirt! Score! J