Recess Activities at Panorama Hills School

Over the next six days students will have an opportunity to learn and play two age-old recess games - Wall Ball and Four Square. Requiring limited equipment, these two games can be played almost anywhere with just a ball and a few friends.

Both games will continue to develop the fundamental movement skills of our students while working on aspects of team work, cooperation and fair play.

In the coming days, ask your child about their experience with these games. Do their experiences relate to the ones you had as a child? Years separate us in age, but perhaps the memories we had of playing these games will be reflected in the experiences the our students will share with us.

Our goal of focusing on Physical Literacy, and its development of fundamental movements skills, is to encourage life-long activity. The more proficient we are at these skills, running, hopping, throwing, etc., the more likely we are to participate in activities as we grow older. As we explicitly teach the rules of these games in the coming days along with new fundamental skills and modifications for various ages groups we hope to see these activities adopted into the play of our students at recess and during their free time.