St Simon the Apostle
Footy Colours Day
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Today is all about looking after our health and wellbeing.
Today, you can enjoy doing a few activities based on Australia’s favourite game, AFL Football.
You can pick to do any of the suggested activities below for the day.
Wear your favourite football teams colours for the day.
St Simon the Apostle AFL Handball Competition
Which AFL Club that we barrack for at St Simon's will be winners for 2022?
To take part in this handball competition you will need:
a bucket
an AFL Football or any other ball from home (it could even be a pair of rolled up socks)
Stand 3 meters away from the bucket. Handball your ball into the bucket.
If it goes in the bucket, you get 6 points (goal).
If it just hits the bucket but doesn't go in 1 point (behind).
If you miss all together, 0 points
Record your score for 10 handballs
Submit your result in the Google Form below for get points for your favourite AFL club
The winning AFL Club of this competition will be announced in next week's newsletter
We are collecting photos of all students and staff in their footy team colours. Click below to send your photo.
How far can you kick a footy?
Kick a footy or ball and measure how far you kicked it
Counting how many steps it takes to get from where you kick the footy to where it bounced. Post this in your Google Classroom.
Watch the video above
What happens after the handball?
Write a story about the rest of the game between the two sides.
What exciting events happening in the game?
Who wins?
Watch the video of the players’ reactions at the final siren and the medal presentation of an AFL Grand Final.
Describe the emotional responses players are experiencing – who are happy, sad, excited, tired, angry, shocked, grateful.
Reflect and write about a time when you felt the same way
Make an art piece of a spectacular specky mark.
Bounce your footy while you take a walk with a parent/guardian
e.g a 30 minute walk.
(remember to keep within the Government restrictions)
AFL Crossword.pdfCreate a Footy word search for a family member to solve or print the crossword above to try yourself
How many knee bounces (with any ball) can you do in a row?
AFLDiceFootballMathsGame.pdfPlay a game of Dice Footy with a brother, sister, parent at home. You can print off the sheet above to play the game or play the game on a piece of paper following the rules of the game
Read a sporting book or book of your choice. You can watch the read along of the picture "Why I Love Footy"
footy-colours-day-mindfulness-colouring-pages.pdfPrint out the sheet above to practise some mindfulness colouring
Watch the video above about how to kick a football.
Write down or recite to a parent the instruction for how to kick an AFL football.
It’s Grand Final Day! Plan an amazing lunch you are going to cook and write a shopping list of all the ingredients you will need to make it.
Create a Football obstacle course outside for you are a sibling to go through.
OR
Play a game of kick to kick outside in a suitable place
AFL Footy Colours Day Jumper Competition.pdfUse your imagination to design a St. Simon the Apostle Australian Rules Football Jumper.
The jumper must include navy blue, gold and brown. If you can, also include our school logo somewhere on the jumper.
You can design both the back and the front of the jumper.
You can click the template above to print out and use.
AFL-Banner-Design-Activity-Sheet.pdfYour favourite AFL team is in the Grand Final! They need an exciting banner to run through
Design and draw a banner for your favourite club to run through.
You can click the template above to print out and use.
Design a Footy Card of yourself in your favourite team.
Watch an old footy game of your choice
Draw a new mascot for your favourite AFL team or for a new team of your own creation. What's their name and favourite thing to say that cheers their team on
Get building! Build a Lego model of a football game!
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