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Time to get racing around Australia!
To build excitement, why not start the Race Around Australia (RAA) with a launch party! Watch the launch video with your class to get things started and visit the Race Around Australia website for more ideas.
Monday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Swimming
Duration: 10 minutes
RAA kms = 2
Thinking while Moving in English
Thinking while Moving in English
Spelling fitness circuit
Why not integrate physical activity into your weekly spelling activities?
Duration: 30 minutes
RAA kms = 4
Middle session classroom energiser
Middle session classroom energiser
Koo Koo Kangaroo - Get your body moving
Duration: 3 minutes
RAA kms = 1
Tuesday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
RAA workout alphabet
Duration: 10 minutes
RAA kms = 1
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. The more words students spell, the more active they are, the more focused they will be and the more RAA kms they will earn!
Middle session classroom energiser
Middle session classroom energiser
RAA 0.5km workout set 1
Challenge your students to complete the workout card twice to earn 1 RAA km.
Duration: 6 minutes
RAA kms = 1
Afternoon 'Fast start'
Afternoon 'Fast start'
Bank river shore
Fast starts are an effective way to energise students and prepare their minds and bodies for learning. This fun Fast start involves students listening to teacher commands to run, hop, skip or jump to the bank, river or shore.
Duration: 15 minutes
RAA kms = 3
Wednesday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
Active spelling
Duration: 15 minutes
RAA kms = 2
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 the relevant stage for your class or visit the Teacher resource hub on the School Sport Unit website to view a range of Thinking while Moving in mathematics task cards and select an activity for the strand you are teaching.
Duration: 30 minutes
RAA kms = 4
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
Pump it up with fresh start fitness - Go Noodle
Duration: 5 minutes
RAA kms = 1
Thursday
Morning classroom energiser
Morning classroom energiser
10@10 - Cricket
Duration: 10 minutes
RAA kms = 2
Thinking while Moving in mathematics
Thinking while Moving in mathematics
Odds and evens
Is the number odd? Or is it even?
Students will enjoy working with numbers and investigating their properties while moving during this quick and fun TwM task.
Teachers can simplify this task by simply saying a number instead of using the NRich Always, sometimes never statement cards.
Duration: 20 minutes
RAA kms = 3
Afternoon classroom energiser
Afternoon classroom energiser
RAA 0.5km workout set 2
Challenge your students to complete the set twice to earn 1 RAA km.
Duration: 6 minutes
RAA kms = 1
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
RAA kms = 10
Classroom energiser
Classroom energiser
Koo Koo Kanga Roo: Get Loose
Duration: 2 minutes
RAA kms = 1
Weekly totals per student
Remember to add your class's RAA kms to the RAA website
Although we are 'racing around Australia’, it is important to emphasise that it is a team challenge. Students benefit from working together as a team to achieve a goal (travelling further around the coast of Australia) and by living the ethos of ‘more active more often’.
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