Gymnastics Part 4

Gymnastics

This week was the final week of gymnastics of the year for the year 8's. We started off the lesson by warming up (Running and stretching), then we had a recap of what we did the week before. Our P.E teachers Mr Hilliard and Mrs Merrin went back over the safety regulations for the trampoline and other equipment, and then we all split into groups and went to the different stations, where we stayed for 10 minutes before moving on to the next.

These stations included: A high beam, a low beam, a trampoline, two different types of sets of bars, a mat (for forward rolls, backward rolls and cartwheels) and a bounce pad with a big foam mat in front of it to land on. 

On one of the sets of bars we had to lift ourselves up, then lift our knees up and put our legs out in front of us. On the other bar, we had to get up using our legs, and flip back down, onto a mat sitting underneath. On the beams, we had to practice jumping over a cone forwards and backwards with our eyes closed with out falling. On the mat we had to practice on properly doing cartwheels, forward rolls, backwards rolls and on the bounce pad we had to practice jumping with both feet and landing steadily with both feet.

My favourite thing about Gymnastics this year was using the beams, and learning how to do backwards flip on the bar. I also learnt how to use the other set of bars this year wich I couldn't last year.