Wednesday, 29 April 2020

EOTC Learning Safely - A Shared Responsibility


This week I want you to explore Module 3: Learning Safely – A Shared Responsibility to continue to learn why and how to construct a Risk Management Plan for our school cross-country. 

Friday, 24 April 2020

Your teaching/learning assignment - Components of Fitness


Kia ora ano koutou

There are 11 - yes 11 components of fitness and each component can be tested to ascertain your level in that SPECIFIC component. Fortunately,many training methods target more than one component as most components overlap.
One item on the agenda of our Google Meet for Wednesday was to  choose a  component of fitness to research and make a presentation to the group.
If you were absent from the meet ,I shared the document for you to download for everyone
Here is a link to that document your classmates from Level 2 and Level 3 PE are co-constructing to help you understand the various Components of Fitness   and how to test and train for improve each component. Sammy,Tamarangi and Sophia have already contributed some helpful information . Use the links they have provided to include VARIETY and SPECIFICITY to your lockdown training.

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Kia kaha koutou

Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Wahanga Tuarua Welcome Back!

Genuinely, honestly, without a word of a lie - I was so happy to see you in the Google Meet
today. I think I might even have missed you. Pono!


Anyhow,further to the instructions I gave you in our Google Meet I want you to
do the following before our next online meeting on Friday 17 April 12.30pm:

  1. Go into the post Maori World Views and follow the prompts there.
Yes - your responses will  challenge your sense making 
and predictive thinking processes but if it was easy then you aren’t learning.
You are responsible for developing and implementing the
Risk Analysis Management (RAM) Plan for the Cross Country and you have to
EVALUATE both the RAM and it’s implementation 
so you MUST be familiar with every aspect in order to evaluate it.

2. Go into the Training to Lead to the Cross Country post and read why and how
you should be training. Ensure you read Sophia’s posts as she is developing a very
concise way of including details pertaining to distance run, duration and
training heart rate (THR)               
Training responses are specific to the way you train. Hence, running is the most specific
way to prepare for the Cross Country and remember
“Be the well informed,responsive.walker of the talk’ leader you would like to be led by
for the students you will be training once we all physically go back to school”.
So you MUST train and recording your training helps you monitor your improvements
and provides motivation (Taha Hinengaro, Taha Wairua)

You need rest/recovery days built into your training schedule for many reasons 
and this article can help you understand why.

No reira kia kaha koutou. Ka kite a te paraire.

Thursday, 26 March 2020

Get Fit For Cross Country (and training 10M)


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YES! I have made  this screen castify video. Don't laugh. I get really self-conscious and nervous.

Whaea Ruth's First 'lockdown' Screen Castify

I would like to challenge you all to run AT LEAST 3 times a week. I'll add Pilates, HIIT Training Ab and Butt training videos to this site. I would love it if you post when you have done a training and what your progress is. Happy training everyone.


Beginner's Running Guide    Sorry this site has ads but ignore and look for the helpful advice. I think I'm going to have to start (re-start) at this level


Intermediate Runners


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Day 1 27 March - OMG Did Day 1 for Beginner's Running Guide. Didn't know I had let myself get so-o-o unfit. Leg muscles so atrophied (lost muscle mass) had trouble with mechanics of running and  felt discomfort in my hips. my poor heart muscle struggled too so I  got close to  my max heart rate
220-59 (my age) =  161bpm. Was in the 150s at one point. By minute 16, not much difference between the 'run' and the walk.LOL  Favourite parts,the warm up,the walks and the warm down. Will do one of the following core workouts later

Flat Belly and Round Booty workout  Really challenging only made to 8min 30secs last time

Core Exercises for the True Beginners Informative and  gives good advice on 'form'


Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Maori World Views EOTC

Kia ora ano koutou

Hopefully you have opened and can navigate your way through this site

MOE resource EOTC-Guidelines

We will start by looking at the philosophical foundations of EOTC (Education Outside The Classroom) For the next two days we will be focusing on the Maori World Views module. 
Please make a Google doc entitled EOTC blog Posts so that you can write responses to each post I make - edit -THEN post to the blog. It would be a good idea to copy and paste the instructions onto your google doc,write your well considered response then copy and paste  only your thoughts to the blog -not the questions.

1. "Education in and outside the classroom needs to contribute to the Hauora/Wellbeing of it's participants (students and teachers)"

How do you anticipate training for the Cross Country and the BOIC Cross Country EOTC event itself will contribute to all four dimensions of student participant Hauora?

 I would like you to look at the six  values included in The Whare Tapere section and consider how our actions pertaining to the cross country could promote growth in all six values but only write a response to the following based on Rangatiratanga.

2. "...each member of the group can influence the direction the group takes and as such there is a sense of shared leadership and collaboration"

Look at your student safety management task while considering this quote,what tasks will require you  "... share a certain purpose" and "...  act in unison" and with whom?

3. Your final task is to comment on the post of two other  classmates. Please ensure your comment is
POSITIVE      THOUGHTFUL and, if you can, HELPFUL

Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Our EOTC 2020 - The Cross Country

Kia ora oku tauira
I hope all is well with you all

I am posting the following link for you to navigate as it contains modules with content I would like you to become familiar with. I suggest you bookmark it so you can continually return to it over the next four weeks. I will be asking you questions based on each module which I hope will promote in-class sharing of ideas and understandings of each module. For the next day please familiarise yourself with how the site is set up. Tomorrow I will be focusing on Maori World Views

MOE resource EOTC-Guidelines

Wednesday, 11 September 2019

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

Today you experienced this HIIT Plan after sharing information from this article What is HIIT and how do I apply it. Now it's time to demonstrate your understanding of this training method.

Firstly, you completed Set 1 which you repeated twice.
1. Specificity - which specific muscles did you target? How do you know? Which specific energy system did you use? How do you know? Which specific fitness components did you target?
2. Intensity - explain the intensity level you had to work at for 45secs. Why do you think you had to keep moving (40-50% of max heart rate) during your 15 second rest between exercises and 90sec rest between sets.
3. What frequency is recommended for HITT ? Explain why.
4. What benefits can you gain from HIIT?
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