Alexanders Fitness Centre

Hello!

This week the students went into the Fitness Centre and had their induction on how to use the equipment safely. The fitness centre is located next to Heron House and has equipment for fitness training as well as weight training.

Opening Times:
Mon-Thur 17:30-19:00
Fri 17:30-21:15
Sat – Sun 9:00-21:00

As you can see from the photos the students are already working out and having fun!

Look out for fitness classes coming up in the near future!

F2 Basketball

Class F2 learning the skills of Basketball. We have a lot of very good players in the school.

F1 Gymnastics

Look at these students learning the basics of gymnastics.

F3 Pics continued

Gymnastics for Class F3

F3 took part in their gymnastics on Tuesday afternoon and as this was their first lesson the students, well most of them, showed some great technique. Mr Istvan took them through the basics of rolls, headstands and how to land correctly (Yao take note).

Snow at Alexanders International School

As you can see the first week of terms was very white! We managed to hold a few indoor tournaments of volleyball and squash but on Wednesday and Thursday we built a huge snowman and played in the snow.

Today is the start of our gymnastics and basketball programmes and both the students and staff are very excited about these sports. At least it will be warm inside!

Alexanders International School Term One Sports Report

The first term has finished and as we all look forward to the start of the new term I wanted to recap the first term.

For the first half of the term we concentrated on Orienteering, Volleyball and Cross Country running. Everyone had a lot of fun learning orienteering and luckily nobody got lost, well not for that long! The Bawdsey estate allowed us to create numerous different maps utilising the sea, forest, field and river settings and this was a challenging start to PE for the students. In volleyball there was great improvement from the beginning to the end, personally I was very impressed with everyone willing to learn and play fairly.

For the second half of term we concentrated on Squash, Badminton and Fitness training. Miss Lucia focused on badminton and I know she was very impressed with the talent we have at the school. I taught squash and this was very well received with all players learning the sport for only the first time and really getting good at it. Mr Istvan concentrated on the fitness part and with the use of the Multi-stage fitness test, abdominal test and fartlek training there was a huge improvement in all of the students fitness levels.

Well done to all of the students for a good start to PE at the school and I look forward to having the school compete in some basketball games in the coming term as well as selected students playing in inter-school squash games.

Till next time.

Mr Paul.