Archery and Outdoors in our School
 

Here are a few photos from our Outdoor Education unit and our Archery unit in PE this past week.

We built mini lean-to survival shelters for wilderness survival skills and are doing backpacking/camping skills this week in Health.

P.E. we are finishing up archery this week,over 350 students took part this school year.

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Absolutley awsome! Great to see outdoor skills being taught in school.

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That's great to see. More and more schools are taking archery out of PE, so it's good to see some still allow it.

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Good stuff right there Troy. Keeps our sport growing.

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Awsesome Troy.

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Guys I just want to add... It was local sportsmen that provided our school with our all our genesis bows, arrows, targets..you name it.. over 3,000 $ in gear!

Good folks hunt and give back!

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That is awsome more schools should have programs like that






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That would have been nice to have that when I was in High School. I would of had to be badminton and Archery champion. ;)

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I wonder how safe it is?

There used to be javelin in schools not to long ago.

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It all depends on the teacher and the students. I had my first go at teaching archery during my internship 2 months back and it went very well. There was zero tolerance for horse play and i made that very clear to the kids. Prior to shooting i spent a class going over all the parts of the bow as well as safety concerns followed up by an exam. If you didn't get 100% on the exam you never got to shoot. I never had any problems with any of the kids who in other activities tended to be a handful. I think the main thing is to get across the danger of this activity and importance in following directions to the students. Yes some school divisions have banned the activity but i believe if the teacher knows what they are doin, no problems.