Term 4 (Boys): Year 10 Rat Race Nottingham to Paris...Session Two:

On the 10th of April, the Year 10 Boys experienced their second session of the 'Rat Race: Nottingham to Paris in the Gym at the Djanogly Leisure Centre. It was a very competitive session and all students were full of energy striving to gain the bonuses on offer en route across the country.

The boys were aware of how well their team did the week before, as the team leader was emailed the link to the blog. The boys reflected on last weeks scores, they were told that the teams that gained the greatest distance in KM were the teams that had all members hit a bonus (at least x2). Teams then began talking and at least 5KM was the target for all students.

A whopping total of 850.75KM was covered by the four teams competing, which is a whopping increase of 187.55KM to the first sessions total.

The boys were working together selecting which piece of equipment was the most effective from session 1 and how long to stay on for e.g. Treadmill/ Exercise Bike/ Rowing Machine etc. All teams worked very hard and at the end of the session all of the individual scores were recorded and totalled.

After the second session the scores are as follows;

4TH PLACE:

TEAM 4
TOTAL: 306.49KM
POSITION: Just outside Dover

3RD PLACE:

TEAM 1
TOTAL: 373.03KM
POSITION: Just outside Calais in the English Channel

2ND PLACE:

TEAM 3
TOTAL: 387.07KM
POSITION: In France, Just left Calais on the E15

1ST PLACE:

TEAM 2
TOTAL: 447.36KM
POSITION: In France, Just outside Bethune

We also had some amazing individual scores this week from three different boys from last week and the top 3 from this week recorded;

1st = 65.00KM (x4 Bonus)

2nd = 57.60KM (x4 Bonus)

3rd = 50.32KM (x4 Bonus)

Excellent second session in the 'Rat Race: Nottingham to Paris!!! Can Team 4 gain ground on Team 1?, will Team 1 have a deep push and catch Team 3?, and will Team 2 continue to lead after Week 3? Only the next session will answer these questions!

Next week the full individual standings will be available to view and we will have a twist after session 3 to see who will win the individual competition!!

Bring on session 3 on Tuesday!!

Mr P Keirnan

Physical Education

'Geocaching at Djanogly Competition' Week 2 (Term 4)

Last week was the second day of the 'Geocaching at Djanogly Competition' and the weather was again perfect.

On Day 2 we decided to have 8 Geocaches available to the groups and this week the groups had a task to complete at each location (e.g. Take a picture with two of your team members shaking hands). Shown below are the locations of the Geocaches.
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Each photo taken by the teams equalled to 25 points and the teams had the choice of which ones they went to.

Each team went off in different directions and had a different strategy to which Geocache they went to first. It was great to see all teams competing and trying to find as many Geocaches before the end of the lesson. Six Lions produced a amazing performance finding six Geocaches (the highest total) with Lanasujoja coming in second with four.
Here are a few photos of the tasks;

Team Lanansujoja

Team Six Lions

The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and we had a few technical hiccups (Pupils unable to see the GPS position on the map sent from my computer and I then retweeted all of the Geocaches with photo hints). Well done girls for carrying on despite the problems and tomorrow we will have a different task.

The scores have counted and they can be accessed via google docs, here;
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkmDQB07QMSadDI3SjdTNzJJLUxpWHFDTGFndk9vaEE&hl=en&authkey=CK7s4q0P

Week 2 scores for Spongebob Circle Pants :) and Barbie girls are yet to be counted because their photos have not been sent to @MrPKeirnan_PKK. I need them asap!!

Well done and we will be looking forward to tomorrows lesson!!

Mr P Keirnan
Physical Education