Netball

Netball!

Pass it to me! Kia ora Everyone! For term 1 we learned about a sport called netball, netball is a sport about teamwork and strategy and it is really fun! We had Joselina and Olivia come to our school on wendsdays and teach us netball. To start off with we learn't about the rules in netball like staying 1 metere apart when someone else is shooting but the most important rule in netball was that you cannot move with the ball! We started doing the basic stretches like high knees, bum kicks and sprinting then we did dynamic stretches like Squats and lunges! For the first few weeks we started to learn about skills like passing and piviting. If you don't know what piviting is its when you keep on foot on the ground and the other foot twists around so you can pass the ball to the other side if you need to. 

After learning these skills we played different games, one of them was called golden child. Golden child is when you have 2 teams, the runners and the shooters. The runners have to run around the court to get to the other side while shooters are trying to shoot the ball in the hoop. If the ball gets in the hoop while your running you have to stopin your place. The golden child is at the back of the line and when its their turn they will tap the people stuck on the shoulder while their running and you have to run to the end with them. If someone shoots a goal the runners lose but if the runners make it the shooters will lose!

We played lots of other games and we also played a real netball game. There was a bib team and non bib team. The caller will call a number of people like 5 or 4 and those people have to try score a goal in the other teams hoop. My favourite part of netball was playing the actual game! Blog you later!