Physical and Health Education

Grade 6-10

Summary of learning and/or celebrations from the week

PHE activities have ramped up at the start of November as students and staff start to take part in daily activities for the Dubai Fitness Challenge! As many people will know, the whole of Dubai is encouraged to exercise for at least 30 minutes a day, every day, during the 30 day period of the Dubai Fitness Challenge. Here are GIS we kicked off this event with a students versus staff dodgeball game, with the experience of the teachers proving vital as the staff ended up 3-2 winners. Alongside this, Thursday morning saw that start of the PHE Advisory Games, where students from Grade 6 took part in football and bench ball competitions during advisory period. The effort and application demonstrated was excellent, and the advisory games will continue over the next three weeks as the other grade levels get their chance to shine. Finally during lunchtimes, the students have been able to choose five of their friends to compete in the football shooting challenge, where a team of six have one minute to score as many goals as possible, with five points awarded if they manage to score a goal in the top corner. This has proved particularly popular, with the competition level extremely high. Overall winners will be announced at the end of the challenge. 

The Jaguar squads continue to perform well in the DASSA Leagues, with particular shout outs to the Girls Under 16 football, who have won every game so far, the Boys Under 16 football, who remain unbeaten. The basketball squads this year are all also competing at the very highest elite level of the DASSA competitions, which is something for those students to be proud of. 

As the weather starts to cool (slightly!) PHE classes have been able to get outside more, with athletics being introduced this term, in preparation for the upcoming sports days in December and the athletics events in Term 2. We are also focusing on coaching and leadership skills within MYP, and linking the ability to lead a group of people in sports setting to the skills our students will need when leading people in work environments in the future. 

Lastly for this week I would like to say a big thank you to all the non-PHE staff that work so hard to enable us to provide many different clubs and teams throughout the week, and give up their time to coach our Jaguar students or lead ECA’s. It is appreciated by both staff and students immensely.