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Physically active homework
Thinking while Moving at home - Boggle
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 'Boggle' in action.
Specific sport focus: Cricket
Monday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Cricket
Duration: 10 minutes
Thinking while Moving in English
Thinking while Moving in English
Phoneme and grapheme relay
Why not integrate physical activity into your weekly spelling activities?
Duration: 30 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
French cricket
Duration: 20 minutes
Equipment: 1 cricket bat per group, 1 tennis ball per group, cones to mark fielder-free zone
How to play: Play in groups of 5. The batter stands with feet together and holds the bat in front of the legs. Fielders throw the ball underarm and the batter hits in any direction. The batter is out if the ball is caught on the full or if hit on the legs.
Players are placed as shown with a fielder-free zone in front of the batter.
Tuesday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
Over, under and through
Duration: 10 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Middle session classroom energiser
Batting blast
Duration: 15 minutes
Activity adapted with permission from Cricket Australia HPE Program.
Equipment: 1 cricket bat per pair, 1 tennis ball per pair, batting tees, cones (target)
How to play: The batter hits the ball, from a tee, at different targets. The aim is to work on moving towards the ball and swinging freely.
Pair students and make one the batter and one the fielder.
The batter hits between the target or at their own target, for example, a bucket, marker cone or hoop.
The fielder fields the ball and returns it to the batter.
Once a batter hits three balls, students swap roles.
Make up your own scoring system, students love scoring challenges.
Introduce underarm bowl for confident batters.
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
Upside down
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 8 markers to set out 25m x 25 m playing area, 1 additional marker per student
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
Activity adapted from Cricket Australia HPE Program
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
Golden ducks
Duration: 15 minutes
Equipment: 1 tennis ball per group, wickets, cones, cricket bat
How to play: The bowlers take turns to bowl and knock the wickets over (underarm or overarm bowl depending on student ability). The runner runs between the wickets, counting their runs, until the bowlers hit the wickets and call 'HOWZAT!'
2 teams – organise teams into bowlers and runners.
2 pitches of 12m are set up parallel to each other.
Set up a ‘crease’ line which bowlers must bowl behind, and runners must run up to.
On the teacher’s call the activity begins.
On the first pitch, bowlers take turns to bowl (underarm or overarm) continuously at the wickets.
On the second pitch, runners run between wickets holding the bat.
When the bowling team hits the wickets, they call out ‘HOWZAT!’ and the runner stops running.
The runner attempts to complete as many runs as they can before the bowling team hits the wickets.
Swap roles when all students have had a go at running between the wickets.
Select one player from the running team as the ‘golden duck’, their runs are worth double.
Thursday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Cricket
Duration: 10 minutes
Middle session classroom energiser
Middle session classroom energiser
Dance and balance
Duration: 10 minutes
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
Wana
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
Scissors, paper, rock!
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 to log and record active minutes.
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