Seiya+F

=My Physical Education Wiki=

**__What I Like To Do__**
During the summer months I enjoy cycling to school. I live about 20km away from school and it takes me about 45 minutes to cycle to school. I try to get quicker every time I cycle. I also enjoy swimming but I don't spend as much time swimming as I did when I was younger because I do not have as many opportunities as I used to. During the winter I love to go ice-skating and skiing, I also do dance classes and sometimes go running at the gym with my dad.

**__Our Current Unit__**
The unit we are doing at the moment is Fitness testing.

Friday 23 March 2012
Today we began our unit on fitness testing. We did a series of tests begining with a bleep test which was quite challenging but when i finished it was because i was not going fast enough to beat the bleep. I am better at long distance running than sprinting. We also did other tests such as a reaction test, flexibility, power, sprint, agility, sit-ups and press-ups. We also took our resting pulse rate and we recorded our pulse after each activity. I thought it was fun but i did not enjoy the bleep test as much as the other activities because it was not as interesting.

**Friday 6 January 2012**
Today we began our gymnastics unit by doing some basic gymnastic moves such as forward and backward roll, handstand and headstand. Some of the exercises were difficult but it was still enjoyable.

**Friday 3 February 2012**
The past few lessons we have been in small groups (my group was Marta, AJ and I) and we have just been trying out some basic gymnastic moves such as: Handstands, counter balances and lifts. We have also been trying some trust exercises which I found particularly difficult as I hate being lifted or falling backwards etc. I also struggled with the handstands and headstands because I don't have enough confidence or balance to keep my legs up for a long period of time. I can do the counter balances well and also cartwheels and rolls. In today's lesson we began coming up with a gymnastics performance, about 1 1/2 mins long. So far we have just been trying out some balances and rolls to include before we decide how to join them together in a sequence.

Friday 10 February 2012
We spent this lesson practicing our routine. We have got enough rolls etc but it is joining it all together in to a sequence that is the hard thing. We have to preform the routine next lesson and i am not sure we are quite ready but we will try our best and that is all we can do.

Friday 17 February 2012
Today we preformed our routine. I am happy with how it went because we were fairly synchronized and organised. We included Anisha in to our routine at the last minute but the addition of a fourth person actually made the performance look better. I feel we all worked well as a team, helping each other with gymnastic moves. This has been my favourite unit so far this year and I found it fun, interesting and I learned a lot.

**__Cycling Unit__**
The unit that we are currently doing in PE is synchronised cycling and we have to come up with a routine that we will show on our bicycles in a set space. In my group there is AJ, Anisha, Marta and myself. We have only had one lesson on it so far and I have found it very fun and interesting.

**Friday 28 October 2011**
Today was our first lesson on the cycling unit. We started to come up with a routine that we would show as our assignment. We did it on foot first and walked through the first part of the routine then we tried it on bikes to see if it would work. To help us remember our routine AJ took a short video of us that we will look at next lesson to remind us of the routine. We are not planning on trying to do any fancy tricks but we want to try and keep the routine interesting and synchronised.

Friday 11 November 2011
In today's lesson we continued to practice our routine. We have decided to incorporate some moves that do not include us being on the bikes. We will finish of the routine by doing a short catwalk and dance with the bikes to add an element of 'girlishness' to the routine that will make it unique. we will have next weeks lesson to practice and the week after that we will be preforming.

Friday 25 November 2011
Today we preformed our routine. We spent last weeks lesson, Friday 17 November, practising. I think that our routine was good but we could have sharpened up the routine by working on timing and precision. I felt a nit nervous before preforming but I don't think it affected the overall routine. If we were to do the performance again we would concentrate more on timing and individual moves. The team worked well together and I am happy with our performance. Overall I enjoyed the unit and I thought it was really fun and interesting.

__Reflection On Cycling Unit__
During this unit I feel that the groups teamwork was really great. We had fun during the unit,even though it was cold, and we overcame all the problems we encountered. Our routine was unique and we were enthusiastic about the unit as a whole. Though our routine was not perfect the team still learned from the experience and if we were to do the unit again we would know what to improve on, timing, complexity and refining the movements. Overall the unit was great fun and I would happily do it again!

**__Reflection On The Last Unit__**
The last unit we did was warm-ups. Our assignment was to get in to groups and come up with a warm up based on a particular sport or activity. I was in a group with Marta and Jeanett and our warm up was based on dance. I think that the unit was very educational because I learnt that you hae to do different types of warm-ups for different activities and that warm-ups are important for physical health and to prevent muscle strains etc.