Week 2
Physically active homework
Thinking while Moving at home - Basketball words
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 'Basketball words' in action.
Specific sport focus: Basketball
Monday
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Basketball
Duration: 10 minutes
Thinking while Moving in English
Basketball dribble
Why not integrate physical activity into your weekly spelling activities?
Duration: 30 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
Pairs passing
Duration: 20 minutes
Equipment: Marker cones to establish batting line and designated hitting area, hitting tees, bats and balls.
How to play: Players form pairs. On your signal, players pass the ball to each other for 30 seconds.
Pairs distribute themselves and wait for the signal ‘go’.
Pairs pass to each other at their own rate for 30 seconds.
At the end of 30 seconds, the player without the ball moves to find another player with a ball. The activity is repeated.
Change the types of passes, for example, overhead pass, chest pass, bounce pass.
Tuesday
Morning classroom energiser
Sports, sports, sports
Duration: 10 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Long throw
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: Markers or cones, basketballs.
How to play: The ball is thrown between two players. If the ball reaches the catcher on the full, both the catcher and the thrower step back. If it is dropped, both take a step forward.
Distribute one ball per pair.
Use 2 markers to establish a ‘gate’ that the ball has to pass through.
Players are equidistant from the marker.
Afternoon session classroom energiser
Copy cat
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 8 markers to set out 25m x 25 m playing area, 1 additional marker per student
Wednesday
Morning classroom energiser
RAA workout alphabet
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
Dribblers and robbers
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 4 balls per 5 students, markers
How to play: Players (dribblers) with a ball move around the court dribbling. One or 2 players (robbers) attempt to intercept their balls — without making body contact. (Play in groups of 5.)
Dribblers
Try to maintain possession.
Dribblers must dribble the ball as they move around the court.
Robbers
Robbers try to win possession of a ball.
Dribblers who lose possession become robbers and try to gain possession of another dribbler’s ball – but not the ball they have just lost.
Thursday
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Basketball
Duration: 10 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Chance your move
Duration: 10 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
Fast start - Captain's coming
Duration: 15 minutes
Select card to download
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
Purlja
Duration: 10 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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