Sunday, 13th of March, Portuguese Futsal coach Tiago Polido led the MYP Grade 7’s Physical and Health Education lesson together with Ms. Paula Rego and Mr. Eduardo Cary. The focus of the lesson was on coaching technical and tactical aspects of the sport. Grade 6 pupils had a chance to practice the exercises led by Tiago Polido.

The following day, Monday 14th of March, Tiago Polido led another lesson with MYP Grade 6’s.

The Portuguese coach has previously worked in clubs in Portugal, Galicia (Spain), Croacia, and Italy, winning several national competitions throughout his career. Tiago Polido is currently Qatar National Futsal Manager.

The Physical Education team would like to thank national futsal manager Tiago Polido for his availability and collaboration.

Monday, 7th of March, Basketball coach Eric Gardow led the MYP Grade 6’s Physical and Health Education lesson together with Ms. Paula Rego and Mr. Eduardo Cary. The focus of the lesson was on coaching technical and tactical aspects of the sport. Grade 6 pupils had a chance to practice the exercises led by Eric Gardow.

For more information on coach Eric Gardow visit his personal website: www.ericgardow.com The P.E. team would like to thank his collaboration.

Monday, 22nd of February, a group of six Futsal professionals from Portugal, Brazil and Qatar working at Al-Sadd Club led the MYP Grade 8’s Physical and Health Education lesson together with Ms. Paula Rego and Mr. Eduardo Cary. The focus of the lesson was on the coaches’ roles, and the key aspects of the job, such as keeping a track record of players’ statistics, and coaching technical and tactical aspects of a sport. Grade 8 pupils had a chance to experience playing with the invited professional Futsal coaches and players, working through technical and tactical exercises of Futsal (formerly known as Futebol de Salão).

The P.E. team would like to thank the collaboration of Al-Sadd Club, coaches Nuno Lázaro and João Leite, and players Rafael Silva, Mohamed Bashir, Abdulla, and Adnan who travelled to SEK Qatar in West Bay, Doha.

This academic year, the Physical Education team organised two days of Sports’ Day. On Tuesday 26th of January, the events started with Grade 5 pupils leading great activities for the Pre-school 3 and Pre-school 4 classes. The event was organised by Grade 5’s, as part of their U.o.I. on Event Organisation.

Pre-school 5, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, and Grade 4 classes participated on their own event later on the same day. Despite the chilly wind conditions, pupils participated competitively for their house teams. Results showed a good share of victories.

Sports’ Day would not be possible to run without the help of every class teacher, and teaching assistants who were involved. For which, again, the P.E. team would like to thank their co-operation during the events.

On Thursday 28th of January, it was time for MYP and Grade 5 students to enjoy their Sports’ Day. Great participation, enjoyment, and cheerfulness was observed from both students and teachers running the events which, had a focus on athletics’ disciplines.

As part of the Physical Education final assessment on the integrated Unit of Inquiry on “Our Place In The World”, Grade 3 pupils started this year’s Academic Year doing Adventure Challenge. Over the course of the last six weeks, pupils learnt about Cross-country and Orienteering in the city. Pupils learnt techniques of how to read maps, and how to rotate maps in relation to details observed around them.

During the Adventure Challenge activities with a focus on goal setting, causation, responsibility, and teamwork, pupils improved their communication skills and individual responsibilities when working as part of a team.

On Tuesday the 27th of October, Grade 3 pupils did their Orienteering Course in Aspire Park. This experience facilitated pupils’ understanding on how Orienteering in the City varies from Orienteering in a more natural terrain.

Thirty-four pupils were split into four groups, and completed the Orienteering Course A or B. Throughout the course, composed of ten check-points, pupils had to respond to questions in reference to details they could observe on the landscape. On two check-points pupils had a chance to exercise using the gymnasium equipment available at Aspire Park.

Despite the heat, pupils enjoyed the outdoors and natural setting of their P.E. activity. In their own words, pupils reported to have enjoyed: “The fun thing was finding the ‘ckeck marks’.”; “We had lots of fun when we played on the sports equipment.”; “I could read the map and rotate.”; “It was very fun because, we rolled down the hill.”; “My favourite part was the C.P. number 5 because, it was fun counting meters from the TV to the bench.”; “I really liked when we were doing exercise.”

The IPC Athletics World Championships is an event for athletes with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. Currently being held at Suheim bin Hamad Stadium, Qatar Sports Club in Doha. This is the 7th Edition of the event which, started in 1994, and SEK Qatar could not miss out on the opportunity as the event is for the first time being organised and hosted by the Qatar Paralympics Committee.

On Thursday, 22nd of October, Ms. Paula Rego, Ms. Warifa Sobh, and Ms. Mariam Noureddine, took Grade 9 and Grade 10 pupils to witness the first events of the Championships. This Sunday 25th, Ms. Paula Rego accompanied Grade 7A and B, and Grade 8A and B. Teachers and pupils had the chance to watch 100m race, Shot Put, Javelin, and Wheelchair racing. As part of their #beyondincredible experience, pupils had a chance to talk to a couple of Italian athletes. Martina Caironi and Guisy Versace answered to some of the pupils questions, who were curious to learn more about their incredible careers.  SEK Qatar pupils were also presented with autographs from Guisy Versace.

Following this great gathering of elite athletics in Doha, the IPC Athletics European Championships 2016 will take place in Grosseto, closely followed by the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Qatar Stars League (QSL) led a fun day of activities for pupils of Pre-school 5 and Grade levels 1-5.

Grade Level: Pre 4, Pre 5, Grade 1, Grade 3

We feel inspired about the students’ creativity during the stand-alone unit of Individual Pursuits. “Mastering basic movement skills ensures body development and conditions performance” is the central idea of this unit. In this unit we’ll build the inquiry and the students’ understanding using the following concepts: “Development”, “Performance”, and “Patterns”.

“Never underestimate the power of a kid driven by the passion to create”

Welcome back to school to all students, parents and teachers!

As an integrated part of an outstanding school, this year the P.E. team staff will:

• TALK about learning
• OBSERVE each other’s learning
• PLAN, OBSERVE, MONITOR and EVALUATE their work TOGETHER
• LEARN from each other

We are also happy to welcome our new colleague, Ms. Dalila Rodrigues. We are excited to increase the strength of our team, and to explore more meaningful learning experience with our students.