Week 1
Time to embrace the Challenge!
To build excitement, why not begin the 10 week Challenge with a launch party! Watch the launch video with your class to get things started and visit the 10 week Challenge page for more ideas.
Physically active homework
Thinking while Moving at home - Hop to it
Thinking while Moving at home can be completed independently, in pairs or as a family. Select the activity card to read and understand how to complete the challenge. There are also instructional videos you can watch if you need further information on how to participate in the task.
Students read the activity card to understand how to complete the task.
The video above provides clarification and a visual of 'Hop to it' in action.
Specific sport focus: Football
Monday
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Football
Duration: 10 minutes
Thinking while Moving in English
Spelling fitness circuit
Why not integrate physical activity into your weekly spelling activities?
Duration: 30 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
Passing through the goal
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 1 football per pair, 2 markers per pair
How to play: All pairs set up a 'goal', approximately 1m wide using two cones. In pairs, players pass the ball to each other 5 times through the goal, before moving to another goal. The aim of the game is to complete passes through as many goals as possible.
Encourage control of the football and accuracy of the pass.
Goals can be made wider or narrower to increase or decrease the challenge.
Tuesday
Morning classroom energiser
RAA workout alphabet
Duration: 10 minutes
You could also use the RAA alphabet for students to spell 4 or 5 words they had difficulty spelling during writing or spelling tasks this week.
Middle session classroom energiser
Name, pass and intercept
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 1 football per team
How to play: Students participate in teams. Players in a circle call out the name of a player in their team as they pass the football to them. One player can be placed inside the circle to intercept the ball.
Play without an interceptor first.
The player with the ball calls out another player’s name (the receiver) and passes the ball to that player.
Introduce the interceptor who attempts to gain possession of the ball.
When the ball is intercepted, the player who touched the ball last and the interceptor change places.
Afternoon classroom energiser
Fast start: Here, where, there
Duration: 15 minutes
Select the card to download.
Wednesday
Morning classroom energiser
Active spelling
Duration: 15 minutes
Students could use their weekly spelling words for this energiser or as a feedback/consolidation task to correctly spell misspelt words from writing tasks.
Thinking while Moving in mathematics
Why not integrate physical activity into your mathematics lessons?
Select a task card from the Teacher resource hub on the School Sport Unit website.
Duration: 30 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
Circle chase
Duration: 10 minutes
Equipment: 2 footballs, 1 set of marker cones
How to play: Two footballs are passed around a circle from player to player. The aim is for one ball to catch up with the other.
Students form a circle with markers. Direct players to stand in the space between the markers.
Two players start with a ball, separated by several players.
Players pass the ball around the circle, trying to overtake the ball in front.
When a designated student calls ‘Change!’ players must change the direction of the pass.
CHANGE IT
Pass and run — as soon as players pass the ball they run to the next space (in the same direction as the pass).
Increase the size of the circle and introduce a third ball.
Thursday
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Football
Duration: 10 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Woggabaliri
Duration: 10 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
12 days of fitness
Duration: 10 minutes
Friday
Are you looking for a quality school sport program? The Sport education teaching resource contains units for sports in the Representative School Sport Pathway and those reported as popular amongst primary school students. It has been created to support schools in implementing a game-based approach during weekly school sport sessions, while also providing students with the opportunity to experience the major characteristics of sport and its wellbeing benefits.
You may like to choose one of the sport sessions from the Sport education teaching resource for your weekly school sport session.
Duration: 60 minutes
Classroom energiser
Imagine and skip
Duration: 5 minutes
Recognising student achievement during the Challenge
Providing regular acknowledgment and recognition of students will help keep motivation high throughout the 10 weeks. Ways you could facilitate this:
weekly acknowledgement at morning assemblies highlighting individual and class achievements
presenting mid-Challenge Achievement and Encouragement certificates
celebrating student effort through a special ceremony when handing out award certificate at the end of the 10 weeks.
Remember to acknowledge improvement and participation, not just the achievement of diamond awards.
Provide students with time to log and record their active minutes
Visit the '10wC resources and support' page on the School Sport Unit website to access support on how students log and record active minutes.
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