Special Subjects

I simply have the best job in the world! I get to play in the gym, on the field and in the computer lab (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!). I call it ‘play’ to the students as we all much prefer to play than work!

 We play a lot of games in PE and have a wide curriculum the students cover in termly blocks of either 8 weeks or 4 weeks. It’s based on the British Curriculum even though FBCS is an American School. We cover softball and cricket for example in keeping with the fact that Cayman is still a British led territory. Basketball, netball, badminton, soccer, tag rugby are all taught as is gymnastics, dance and fitness.

All children do a block of swimming every year and we have amazing facilities here at FBCS. A full air-conditioned gym, pavement area, 2 play parks and large playing field with 2 football pitches.

Here is a look at our yearly schedule in PE and learning objectives for each grade.

pe-year-schedule-and-learning-objectives-2011-12

See you in PE! Healthy blessings - Coach Claire

Today we had our school nurse talk to us in assembly about healthy eating and the good food choices we have to make. Its all about choice, choice at the supermarket, choice when out at the cinema or in a restaurant, the choice to be healthy. Our bodies need a balanced diet and we need vitamins to stay healthy. Come on FBCS kids - let’s make healthy choices and feel great!

What will you choose? Click here for the video we watched.

Healthy Blessings - Coach Claire

Thank you to all who participated and raised money to help this years rollathon be a huge success.

We had almost all FBCS participate and a lot of WEE Care children too! It was great to see everyone scooting, skating, triking, boarding and biking endless laps of the car park for 3 hours solid. I received some wonderful feedback from parents and the children did great. Lots of exercise + fun = healthy happy kids! Together both circuits blasted last years lap count of 2500 laps.

This year we raised over $2745 which will go towards new equipment for the PE department. Jade Robinson won our biggest sponsorship collection and recieved a gift certificate raising $502 and Bruce Murdoch raised the most from WEE Care - $108.  Our students together completed 3885 laps!!! Way to go FBCS and WEE Care!

The morning of the Roll-a-thon, lots of bikes, scooters, trikes and skateboards ready and waiting!

Grades 3-6 waiting for the Roll-a-thon

Grade 3 boys waiting waiting waiting

Coach Claire getting the cones ready.

If you have to wait you might as well eat!

Lots of parents waiting for the start...

And we are off.....

on big bikes...

small bikes...

trikes...

skates...

scooters...

running bikes....

and strange....

skateboard things (called a rip-stick apparently).

We had parents helping...

and watching...

and working...

and chatting...

and hugging...

and keeping kids safe...

and quenching their thirst...

and giving advice...

and joining in!

Once again FBCS students have had a great time at the Cayman Islands Sailing Club. This is one of the best places in the world to learn to sail. The club offers fully qualified instructors, all students are required to wear lifejackets and a safety boat is with them at all times.

This is a fantastic learn to sail course for ages 5-12 and we have a new session starting Monday April 12th running for 6 weeks til May 28th. We provide transport to the sailing club and ask parents to pick up at 5:30pm from the sailing club.

Bookings now being taken for places for the April course - sign up in the school office now!

Just hanging around til its time to rig the boats!

Getting the boat ready

Checking the boom

The girls are ready to sail...

Picos are fun to sail.

Instructions being given from the safety boat

Save the date! - Friday January 13th 3pm - 6pm

Our annual Roll-a-Thon is lots of fun!

Time to Be Active and have some fun, biking, skating, scooting or just walking our course.

All funds raised will go towards new equipment for the PE Department.

Letters to parents will go out when we return to school.

 fbcs-rollathon-2012-pdf

Merry Christmas and Healthy Blessings - Coach Claire

On Friday 9th December we took our best swimmers to represent FBCS at the annual Inter-Primary Swim Meet at the Lions Pool. All students entered the 25m Freestyle (frontcrawl), breaststroke and back stroke races with some also competing in the 4×25m freestyle relay races too. FBCS was one of 8 schools competing and had a great day with all students doing their best and 3 getting first places!

An excited team pulling some crazy faces before the gala starts !

Alex and Matthew getting ready to start 25m Freestyle

Luke with a proud Coach Claire. He came first in the freestyle race.

Jared got first place his heat for freestyle boys age 11.

Katriona gets a good start in the 7-8 Girls 25m Freestyle race

Isabella about to start the backstroke race

Jessica doing great at backstroke

Matthew got first place for breaststroke!

A big well done to all our swimmers!

Our very own FBCS annual swim gala will take place on the 1st June 2012 where all students take part in a fun, friendly competition! See you in the pool!

Healthy Blessings - Coach Claire

FBCS students in Grades 4, 5 & 6 will get to experience a professional tennis match tomorrow at the Ritz Carlton. The KPMG Legends Tennis Tournament has stars such as Jennifer Capriati and Martina Hingis and Mark Philippoussis playing and the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is a guest spectator.

For me as an avid Wimbledon fan I’m very exited to be going! Schools were generously given complimentary tickets to help get school children excited about this wonderful game.  More information can be found at www.compasscayman.com/tennis/

What a fantastic time we had at Motions Unlimited Gymnastics Studio.  All students grades K to 6 participated! We have been doing gymnastics as part of our school curriculum and this was a special treat to be able to go and put our skills in practice at the amazing studio.

As you can see we all had a great time and hope to go again next week..er I mean year! It would be great to go each week though!

Healthy Blessings - Coach Claire

Its less than 9 weeks to the Kids Fun Run. Children aged 6-12 can enter and I hope to see lots of FBCS students there. Click here for more information and to register online. The fun run, is just that, it’s about taking part and having fun!

And….I have just read in the Caymanian Compass that the organisers of the Cayman Islands Marathon are encouraging walkers to participate! This is great news because anyone can now enter, so parents come on, what are you waiting for?! See you on the course!

Healthy Blessings

Coach Claire

The Wellness Policy was introduced in January 2011. It was handed out to all parents (if you didn’t get a copy please visit the school office)  and has been formulated to improve the health and wellness of all students at FBCS and WEE Care.

This is an exciting time! Here are some things we have done -

Implemented Fruity Friday (to replace the bake sale) each Friday afternoon to provide students with a much needed healthy snack whilst raising funds for PTF.

With funding from PTF we have painted new playground markings to encourage more physical activity at lunch and recess.

We are encouraging children to drink more water with signs up at the water fountains and asking them to bring water bottles to school.

Provided healthy snacks at events such as the Swim gala and class trips.

Helped with the decision to have hats as part of the school uniform.

FBCS is the first Private School to comply with new government standards for the food we supply to students through Food for Thought.

AND JUST LAST WEEK - with the help of the Be Active team and Project Grow we have our very own school garden. There are 2 new planting beds for our children to plant, care for, grow and hopefully eat the various plants and learn about healthy food that grows in the ground and not manufactured. Cayman 27 came and captured our first seeds being planted! Click here for news report.

A BIG thank you to all parents who send in healthy snacks and lunches for their children. As a parent I know it can take a little more time and preparation to cut up fruit or make a sandwich but not only does this have such great health benefits and forms eating habits that will last a life time but it also can help improve concentration and academic performance.

Here are some helpful ideas on healthy-packed-lunches from Bethany Smith our Nutrition expert.

Healthy Blessings - Coach Claire