Congratulations X-Country Runners!

A huge congratulations goes out to the RBES cross country running team who celebrated their successful season at today's student assembly.  All the runners who participated in any or all of the following events: the John Bole Classic, the Devon Turkey Chase, and the Autumn Cross Country Classic received their certificates today in recognition of their great effort and super work in representing Robina Baker Elementary both on and off the track.

Additionally today we recognized all 93 students who came out for cross country running throughout year - these 93 students were all the runners who came out any participated in some fashion throughout the season, whether it was attending the meets, or simply coming out and running with the team during our weekly practices.  Our motto of the more movers the merrier definitely held true!

It was a great season!  Up next for intramural sports will be the introduction of the noon hour indoor soccer league in January, and eventually the much anticipated floor hockey season kicking off in mid-late February!  Should definitely be some fun and active months for the kids!

Quick call Tom Cruise...oh wait we have this covered!

Tom Cruise has nothing on the students at RBES!  The excitement level of the kids reached new heights this week as all the students in pre-kindergarten through to our super experienced grade fours took their turns trying to conquer the... Mission Impossible course!

A total of twenty-two different challenges ranging from the "Messy Bedroom Floor" and "Tunnel Crawl" through "Bomb Alley" and "Highs and Lows" (* all obstacles were creatively named by our kindergarten students) really served to get all the students moving their bodies up, down, through, and around!  Not mention getting their minds into mix as well as they worked on recognizing patterns and developing spatial and body awareness - most needed skills when attempting to tip toe your way through bean bags, chickens, pigs, pucks and nearly a 100 other obstacles!

It has definitely been a fabulous week in the gym...be sure to talk to your son or daughter about their Mission Impossible adventures!

Dribbling, shooting, and lay ups...oh my!

The students of Robina Baker have been busy perfecting their basketball skills these last few weeks.  From learning to dribble and pass the ball, to aiming their shots and practicing their lay ups the students have stayed active and worked to gain a better understanding of the fundamental skills and game rules needed to play an actual game of basketball.

From their initial efforts where the odd body check and travelling was an almost constant to the final "inter-squad" games with real passing, shooting and players playing defense the change in their level of playing ability was absolutely fantastic!

Our SpOoKTacuLaR Halloween...

Staff and students were able to burn some of their "early" sugar-induced energy on Thursday and Friday as they were treated to a series of SpOoKTacUlaR Halloween activities.  From the targeted challenges of "Alien Attack", "Ring the Witch" and "Brain Toss" through movement activities including "The Haunted Tunnel", "Floating Ghosts", and "S-K-U-L-L" everyone had a Halloween-themed blast, and most importantly stayed active while having fun!