GRADE 4-5 WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL EXCURSION
On Monday 27th June our Grade 4/5 class travelled to Moonah sports stadium to participate in para sport! We played wheelchair basketball with Richard and modified wheelchair rugby with Kevin from Para Quad Tasmania. Richard told our group that we were very lucky to have Kevin join us for our session and that we were actually the first school group to have ever used the rugby wheelchairs! How exciting!
Our students had a lot of fun participating in the different activities and found them quite challenging. The session was run in collaboration with Kevin and Richard from Para Quad Tasmania and we thank them for this amazing opportunity for our students.
Thank you to Mr Turner, Mrs Duncombe and Mr Roberts for assisting us on our excursion!
Here are some comments from our students:
- Holly - being in a wheelchair is hard. Teaching other people about their story is important to know what they are going through.
- Axton - Wheelchair basketball is fun!
- Brontee - I liked the wheelchair rugby, it was easier to move around in those wheelchairs. It was fun.
- Bailee - I didn’t lie how the wheelchairs hit each other! The balloon in wheelchair rugby was ginormous!
- Charlotte - I liked playing wheelchair basketball because it wasn’t as rough as the rugby.
- Oaklahn - I enjoyed wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby it was challenging because It was hard to move while the basketball was in your lap.
- Nathaniel - Richard spoke to us about how to respectfully treat people in a wheelchair.
- Violeta - I really liked wheelchair rugby and how we were the first class to have used them. I really enjoyed it; it was fun.
- Addison - I enjoyed having a go in a wheelchair.
- Ellis - I liked the teamwork in wheelchair basketball. You had to do lots of passing to shoot, you couldn’t do it by yourself.
- Mitchell - I liked we were the first people to use the rugby chairs!
- Laurie - wheelchair rugby wheelchairs were lower than the basketball ones, so it was harder to use your arms to pass.
- Joseph - I enjoyed playing wheelchair basketball. It must be challenging for people in a wheelchair to play basketball.
- Palasa - the games we played were much harder than they seemed in a wheelchair!
