Flying (class)

Flying
Class Room	Courtyards
Class Type	Required Class (Y1) Elective Class (Y2-Y7)
Class Format	Practical
Current Professor	Xiomara Hooch (Pre 1990s - Present)
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Flying is a Seminar type class, given to first year students twice per year. It teaches basic broom-handling skills, and a passing grade is required to use a broom on the school grounds. It is strictly pass/fail, and those who fail the first time can retake it in a remedial form in the spring.

It's possible to fail flying for several years in a row, and opt to take the remedial courses. Students who fail the course are not required to pass, but cannot use the brooms or join a house team until they do.

Classroom

Flying takes place outdoors in the fall and against in the spring, usually in one of the larger courtyards. Students are lined up with a school broom at their side and asked to perform basic broom skills.

Class Content

Topics covered in Flying are...

• How to mount a broomstick
• Proper form and posture
• Forward, backwards, turning, up and down
• Safe falling
• Broom care, how brooms are made
• The rules of Quidditch

Students are provided with ample time to practice skills.

History

In the 1920s (and perhaps before and after that date), flying class was broken down into Girls' Broomstick Riding and Boys' Broomstick Riding. [1]

Class Sessions

2008

In the first class (Sept 2), everyone got acquainted with getting a broom up, and some close-to-the-ground flying. In the second class (Sept 9) we continued to practice close-to-the-ground flying, this time doing much more turning and stopping.

September 16, 2008 Falling Properly - Lesson 3,

So far they have spent a great deal of time flying out on the grounds. They're now practiced in turning, stopping, falling and reversing. They've changed their altitude, they've discussed Quidditch, to a point, as well. But mostly they have spent a great deal of time practicing, discussing safety and doing drills.

October 28, 2008 Field Trip - Lesson 9, Brooms and Broom Care, trip to Quality Quidditch Supplies

December 9, 2008 Aim High, Children! - Lesson 15, Flying Examination

2009

September 1, 2009 Up! - Lesson 1, First Day Aloft

By now, the students had been practicing for seven weeks and their flying was getting there. Almost all of them could fly in a straight line and make good clean turns.

October 20, 2009 Quaffle! - Lesson 8, Quidditch Day

November 24, 2009 Follow Me! & Let's Go! - Lesson 12, Broomride to Hogsmeade Village

December 9, 2009 Fly or Fail - Lesson 15, Final Exam

Class Rosters

2009-2010

First Years
Gryffindor	Hufflepuff	Ravenclaw	Slytherin
Alix Bonham Marlon Kaminski Emile Lawson Lucy Matthews Alexandra McGee A Delia Morris Dessa ShareE Ted Lupin E Wilhelm Alexander	Alice Hunter A Annette Lotusorder E Paetyn Harper P Ethan Irons Percy Smith Diedre Timkowski Margita Gajos Chaya WeismannE John Windell A	Bethany Grieves Noah Archer A Leon Brown Alaine Pendergast Frank SellaphixA	Mercedes Posada O Alexandria Wright Rico Posada O Blossom Rose O Dione Sayer Shyleen Vanderzee

2008-2009

First Years
Gryffindor	Hufflepuff	Ravenclaw	Slytherin
Mairead ó Fearghail O Keegan Kearney E Adley Rothwell Charles Harcroft O Hannah Harper E	Pax Wintergreen Dahlia Collins Venora MacGregor A	Eirene Antonopoulos T Serenity Thornton A	Euphemia Grissom-Dolohov A Noriko Wakahisa D Aglaia Knight E Eiropha Redman A