Five- bat blog

My level of effort and engagement today: Merit

Why have you placed yourself at this level? Give supporting evidence.

This lesson we played a game of five bat against a year 13 class. It was quite tough because they played the game a lot more tactically than us and also slightly cheated the rules at times. They absolutely annihilated us. Their ball throwers seemed to be a lot more powerful and correctly timed than ours, they had a line of people stand in front of the runners to protect them so they didn’t get out, their bowls were a lot more accurate. I bowled a couple of times and somehow I managed to end up near the front of the line each time because nobody seemed to really want to participate and would try and stand as newest tot he back of the line as possible. I didn’t gas bag with my friends to an extent that was stopping me participating and I feel as if I contributed somewhat positively to the team play.

Factors that influence participation: fun & enjoyment, challenge, social factors

Factor 1: fun & enjoyment + Factor 2: challenge + Factor 3: social factors

As much as I don’t enjoy loosing, I enjoyed playing against a bigger and better team because it’s a good challenge and it keeps things interesting. It keeps everybody striving and trying; whereas if you were winning by a mile (as the other team was) you’d perhaps slack off a bit. Lots of funny things happened and I found myself laughing often, which made it all the more enjoyable. These two factors influenced my participation by making me want to participate because we were doing something new and different. Until this term we’d not played any games against other classes so it was a cool new environment to be put into. Friends make everything the merrier, and I always enjoy doing sport with mates. I know most of the people in my P.E class reasonably well, but those in the other class not so much, so it was a nice mixture of individuals.

Bearing in mind the criteria in Resource 1, what could you do to improve your future participation?

I think to improve my future participation I could have maybe suggested we have a team talk to suss out what tactics we were going to go into the game with, because we went in quite cold and nobody really knew what we were doing and we didn’t have a game plan. The other class worked together well the last time we played them so we should have assumed the same this time and come into the situation more prepared.

Wharf blog

My level of effort and engagement today: Achieved- Merit

Why have you placed yourself at this level? Give supporting evidence.

This lesson was relatively laid back and pretty relaxed, considering we just wandered down to the wharf, jumped off a few times and then wandered back to school. Though I did actually participate, whereas many people did not go in the water.

Factors that influence participation: fun & enjoyment, social factors and environmental appreciation

Factor 1: environmental appreciation

I love the ocean; surfing, swimming, skim boarding, sailing, jumping off things- whatever it is, if it has to do with the sea I’m there. I have great appreciation and respect for the ocean and I love being in and around it. So environmental appreciation influenced my participation by motivating me to get dressed quickly and skip to the wharf because I was looking forward to it.

Factor 2: social factors + Factor 3: fun & enjoyment

It was quite a cold day and a couple of the girls didn’t really want to jump in once the realisation had set in that the water would be absolutely freezing. But you just end up joking around and bating them and taking the micky out of them and eventually everyone gets in the water and you have a good time. I get great fun and enjoyment out of spending time with good friends and making new ones, and all of the people in my P.E class are really cool and interesting and I enjoy getting to know them better each time. So this influences my participation in making me actually want to be there, rather than wishing I was somewhere else doing something else.

Bearing in mind the criteria in Resource 1, what could you do to improve your future participation?

I’m not too sure what I could have done to improve my participation to be honest, this lesson was really just about jumping off the wharf in the cold and that is exactly what I did, and other than that there’s not much else I could have done.