Week 2 Term 4 Reflection: Athletics, the great delay

Hello, welcome back to my blog! This week, we're doing athletics! Well, last week we were supposed to do athletics, but it got postponed due to rain.. twice. Athletics is happening on Wednesday, and it's an opt-in situation. You're allowed to not go to athletics, due to wednesday being tech.

Our class also got to write a piece of work about why they think that athletics should or should not be compulsory. Here's mine.

"Why athletics should be compulsory.
Written by Martin Stanton.

Do you think that athletics should be compulsory in schools? Well, I personally think they should be, and this is my reasoning.

Athletics is an amazing way to keep fit, it’s an entire day of sports and fun. Most children enjoy it and go on to canterbury tournaments for their selected sport! It’s also helping the children stay active and enjoy sports, and due to the wide variety of sports children may find the sport they enjoy the most and go on to become invested in the sport.

Athletics is also a great time for students to meet up with their friends and do sports with them. It helps boost children's morale when they have their friends near them. In fact, it makes them over 27% happier and it makes the time fly right by for them, reducing complaints.

Friendship can help nearly anyone with the right amounts. And mix that with athletics, and you have a perfect combination that makes athletics a fun and exciting time for students. This, is partly why I think that students should have to do athletics.

This also gets students outside and on the fields, running around and enjoying sports. Over 1 billion children have mobile phones, gaming PCs, and/or chromebooks now, and as many people know, overuse of devices can be the catalyst for many health conditions such as bad eyesight, depression, social withdrawl, and other things.
Athletics help children get away from these devices and get them outside for fresh air. In conclusion, athletics should be compulsory because of health benefits, morale boosting, enjoyment, and socialising. These things all together are amazing if they are executed well together. So, personally, if you want to pursue your esports partnership, so be it. But this is why I think that athletics should be compulsory in schools.

Please, if you can, go outside and enjoy doing a sport."

Sorry for that being a little bit long, I wrote a lot of this. Anyway, we also did Keping Ourselves Safe where we were read a story and we had to think of ways to diffuse the situation and keep yourself or others safe. I will be releasing a DLO about this next week.

Thank you for coming to my blog! Have a good day, and goodye!