Ms. Hennick's PE Blog

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students, For the month of May, we are pleased to offer our students the opportunity to take part in our Running Club. This club will take place before school and will run on a drop-in basis. No registration required, just show up on the days that you can and run with us. Running Club will meet on the field behind the school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:45-9:05am beginning Thursday May 2 nd . We will run for approximately 15 minutes and then stretch. Students will be dismissed from the field at 9:05am to head down to the compound where their class meets for entry. Running is a fantastic activity to be involved in at a young age. It brings many rewarding benefits for kids’ physical, mental and personal development. The Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines recommends at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous-intensity physical activity daily. When students join us for running club, they will be working towards building the...

Its been so cold outside and we are all feeling it... especially our kids! Our bodies need to move, here are some easy ideas of activities that we can do to get moving. it doesn't have to be complicated.. just move and have fun.  https://activeforlife.com/content/uploads/2019/01/AFL-RecipeForAnActiveYear_Desktop_v1.2.pdf

Students were extremely excited to end our wrestling unit with a showdown between Ms. Hennick and the amazing Mr. Sandberg! Here is a snipet of some of the action that went down in the gym that day...

A HUGE THANK YOU to our amazing volunteers and the Royal Oak Community Association and the Kid Sport Skate Shack for helping to make our Ice Skating Event a Success. We would like to also thank Royal Oak Sobeys and Starbucks for donating our coffee and hot chocolate. Despite the cold weather, we still had a great turn out of students and parents. Thanks to everyone for coming out!

The Royal Oak School Physical Education department is pleased to provide you with the opportunity to join us for an evening of Ice Skating. Please join us on either Tuesday, February 5th or Thursday, February 7th from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at the Royal Oak Community outdoor rink. We will have skates and helmets available to borrow from the Skate Shack. There will be music, hot chocolate and coffee. We hope to see you there! Kid Sport Calgary has generously donated the use of their Skate Shack, which is a trailer full of skates! The skate shack will provide us with child, youth and adult skates as well as helmets. You will need to sign out the equipment with one of our volunteers.   All persons on the ice during this time will be required to wear a helmet and the equipment will be available on a “first come, first served basis.”  All children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.   School staff will not be supervising this event.   If a ...

We are in the final week of gymnastics and students have had a lot of fun learning new skills and creating their own routines. Next week we will spend most of our time on the wrestling mat. We will continue to work on gymnastic skills, learn basic wrestling moves and play lots of combative games!