OLYMPIC GAMES

 

Hello everyone!

How are you? I hope you are doing great! The end of the school year is coming up hot and that can only mean one thing: Summer is coming! 

This summer Olympic Games Tokyo will start on 23 July 2021.

But, what are the Olympic Games?

The Olympic Games are an international sports festival, held every four years. The ultimate goals are to cultivate human beings, through sport, and contribute to world peace. Summer Games and Winter Games are held separately.

See the videos if you want to learn something more about the Olympic Games.

As always, thank you for reading! I'll see you on class!

PARKOUR FOR SCHOOLS

 Hello everyone!

How are you doing?

Do you want to know more about Parkour?

Parkour is a movement activity that promotes health and fitness whilst teaching young people to master their bodies and minds. 

The term ‘Parkour’ originating in France in the 1980s, was adopted from 1998. It derives from the French word ‘parcours’ meaning ‘route’ or ‘course’.  Used interchangeably, “Parkour, Freerunning, Art Du Deplacement, is the non-competitive physical discipline of training to move freely over and through any terrain using only the abilities of the body, principally through running, jumping, climbing and quadrupedal movement.” Whilst there is no set list of moves those that are often practiced are:

• running towards a wall and then jumping and pushing off the wall with a foot to reach the top of the wall
• moving from a position hanging from a wall-top or ledge, to standing on the top or vaulting over to the other side
• Vaulting over obstacles
• jumping and landing accurately with the feet on small or narrow obstacles
• jumping and catching a ledge with the hands while the feet land on the vertical surface below.
• using a rolling motion to help absorb large impacts

Let´s see a video!