AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL

As many of you know, our school belongs to the plurilingual net of Conselleria. For this reason we are teaching P.E. in English since last September. We started little by little, step by step. And decided to start all the lessons talking about one picture that we put in the P.E. store. Every week our 1st and 2nd grade students draw and write this word in a work sheet. We are trying to make them speak some common expressions in English that are very useful.

And the word of this week is AUSTRALIA.  For this reason we have presented our students a picture of this country painted with the colours of the Australian flag, as you can see on the picture. We have been talking about some costumes and typical animals (koalas, kangaroos...) and we have explained whereabouts is Australia in the world. Our students watched a video on YouTube that explained the different rules and they could learn the shape of the field, the 3 goals and the way they score. But we are playing in a different way, adapting the rules in order to make it easier for them. Here you are the rules we are using to approach Australian football to children of 6-7 years old: 

- we play with a foam rugby ball

- they must throw the ball into the goal without a previous bounce on the floor.

- we can pass the ball by kicking or hitting it.

- we can run up to 5 steps with the ball.

- we can not come into the areas.

- contact between them it's not allowed.

We encourage you to discover and enjoy this sport!

Nuria Climent i Fernando Lázaro