Sports Day (Poland)

We have started the third project year with the task entitled “Sports Day”. Various competitions were held amongst our primary and lower-high school students. Due to the weather we decided to have them in the gym. Below you can see the photos of students taking part in competitions prepared by our PE teachers.

10 Competitions amongst students and teachers

Every class and every educator had to take part in each competition.

1. Obstacle course – students had to overcome various obstacles put on their way; time of this run was measured for every student in a class

2. Set shot – every student could throw the ball five times, one point was assigned for every successful throw

3. Skipping – during this activity time was also measured and dependently on a number of jumps a proper number of point was assigned

4. Shot on goal – students had to score a goal; each of them had five trials

5. Bouncing a Ping-Pong ball – in this competition students had two trials; they had to bounce a ball five times in a row

6. Archery – every student had two bowshots; (max 20 points to score)

7. Cricket – it was modified for our needs; students stood in a row and every one and each of them had to shot a ball into a wicket

8. Deck tennis – it was also modified; students had to throw a ring into special rods  

9. Darts – in this game small missiles were thrown at a circular dartboard fixed to a wall; only 5 throws were allowed per student – 1 point each

10. First aid – our school nurse prepared special tasks for students to practise with a phantom; they could get 8 points max; the first aid exercise was done to show how important is to remember about our safety while practising sports; our aim was also to teach students how to deal with life-threatening situations 

Some other photos from that day ;) 

The most common sports in Poland nowadays are football, basketball and volleyball. In winter time there is also hockey which has many followers. For Toruń and our school the most important sport of all is basketball. In Toruń there is a famous basketball team called Twarde Pierniki. Its name is connected with gingerbread products that Toruń is famous of.

"Twarde Pierniki Toruń, for sponsorship reasons named Polski Cukier Toruń, is a Polish professional basketball team based in Toruń. The team currently plays in the PLK, the highest tier in Poland". 

Link to their website (unfortunately) only in Polish language:

http://twardepierniki.pl/klub/

Sports classes in Zespół Szkół no 7

In 2012 in our school there was introduced a new profile for gymnasium students – they could choose a sports class with basketball as the leading sport. It’s been a huge change that demanded from the school many adjustments when it comes to, for instance, basketball courts and many other. However, we managed and it was done successfully. Due to this fact, and taking into consideration Toruń’s history of basketball achievements, we decided to present basketball as the most common sport for the project. The link below presents detailed rules of a basketball game.

https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/basics/basics.html

And below you can watch a tutorial video prepared by our students:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUi4qFHEyEU