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Physically active homework
Get active @ home - Moving fun
The Get active @ home activity challenge cards can be completed independently, in pairs or as a family. Select the activity card to read and understand how to complete the challenge.
Specific sport focus: Snow sports and Try Rugby Sevens
Monday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Snow sports
Duration: 10 minutes
Thinking while Moving in English
Thinking while Moving in English
Captain ball - prefix and suffix challenge
Why not integrate physical activity into your weekly spelling activities?
Duration: 20 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Middle session classroom energiser
Line out throw
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 1 football per pair of players, marker cones
How to play: Pairs throw a football overhead to each other and step backwards if they catch it on the full. When ‘Time!’ is called, the pair who is the greatest distance apart wins.
Organise players into pairs with one ball per pair.
Pairs face each other 5 metres apart and parallel to other pairs.
On ‘Go!’, players pass the ball back and forth to their partner using a two-handed overhead throw.
If the ball reaches the catcher on the full, both players take one step backwards.
If the catch is dropped, both take a step forward.
When ‘Time!’ is called, the pair who is the greatest distance apart wins.
Tuesday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
Move as if
Duration: 10 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Middle session classroom energiser
Tricky touchdowns
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 1 football per 3 players, 6 marker cones to define playing area
How to play: One at a time, attacking players with a football enter the playing area and quickly choose one of 2 possible lines to run over (Line A and B in picture) before being tagged by a defender. Players change roles frequently. Play with up to 10 players per game.
Organise players into 2 groups at diagonal points of the playing area.
Attackers line up behind a cone or marker with a football each.
A defender can only enter a playing area once an attacker has entered the area.
One point = attacker runs over a selected line without being touched.
An attacker and defender must quickly move out of the game as soon as the attacker is either touched or runs over the selected line.
Swap roles when all attackers have had a turn.
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
Woggabaliri
Duration: 10 minutes
Wednesday
Morning classroom energiser
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
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
Afternoon classroom energiser
Ball runner
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 1 football per pair of players; 6 marker cones to define a playing area
How to play: Players in pairs pass a football back and forth in the centre of a playing field. When the coach calls ‘Ball!’, the player who has the ball must run to their end and score a try.
Organise players into pairs with one ball per pair.
Pairs line up side-on and 2m apart in the centre of the playing field and pass the ball back and forth to each other.
When you call ‘Ball!’, the player with the ball (or about to receive the ball) must run with it and score a try.
After scoring a try they return to the centre and resume passing.
Thursday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Snow sports
Duration: 10 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Middle session classroom energiser
Chance your move
Duration: 10 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
Keentan
Duration: 15 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
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
Thinking while Moving in English - Greedy bird grammar
Duration: 15 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 to log and record active minutes.
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