Let's keep active!

Hello - welcome to our new online activity centre!

The Hertford and Ware School Sports Partnership is here to help beat those boredom blues with some activities for you and your family to try whilst you are learning from home. We will be adding new ideas every week. So much good work has been happening in schools and home already to maintain children’s fitness, health and wellbeing; we hope that we can support you all with some extra ideas which will be fun and useful for all the family at this difficult time.

Each week there will be:
A challenge
A skill
Outdoor activity
A movement dance activity (from Hannah at Imagination Arts)
A quiz
Website of the week

Tips for building activity into your day

It will be worthwhile trying to establish a routine every day. Break the day up into sessions and have regular breaks to set and then maintain a structure, not too rigid and not too loose!! To get your routine going, mix in other resources, like Joe Wicks' PE class. Try and do the challenges every day and challenge yourself or others to beat your score.

Keeping Score

· Can you make a Results sheet to keep score? Keep on fridge door.
· Use an empty jar, pint glass, vase and add a bean, counter or button each time you complete a challenge
· Set reward levels: keep them achievable, make the reward worthwhile.

CHALLenge

Personal Challenge 1 - How many skips can you complete in 2 minutes?
Equipment - Skipping Rope, Stopwatch

Make it harder by... skipping on one leg!

skill

RITA’S BALL BLAST CHALLENGE

Equipment needed:

· 2 tennis balls or equivalent size

· Skipping rope or line

· A4 sheet of paper folded in half or sheet of newspaper


How to play the game:

1. Place one ball on the folded sheet of paper at least 2m in front of the line. This is the target ball.

2. Stand behind the line and roll or throw the ball at the target ball.

3. Can you hit the target 5 times in a row (bronze), 10 times (silver), 20 times in a row (gold). Or count how many times in a row you hit the target ball, then try to beat your score.


Further challenges:

TOO EASY?

· Move the target ball further away.

· Increase the target numbers for bronze, silver and gold.

· Use koosh ball, beanbag or screwed up paper which doesn’t roll.

TOO DIFFICULT?

· Use larger balls or bring the target nearer.



outdoor activity

Obstacle Course


Obstacle courses make great physical games for children. Build a course using some of these ideas in any order:

  • Lay down a ladder and have the children step through each rung.

  • Allow only jumping/crawling/crab walking from one area of the course to another.

  • Make a Balance Beam - masking tape is all you really need, make a line on the ground or lay down a skipping rope or put down a piece of wood.

  • Perform various exercises such as 20 sit-ups or push-ups.

  • Give each child 2 sheets of newspaper and allow each step to be taken only on a piece of newspaper. This requires the child to reach back and grab the previous step’s sheet of newspaper – tricky!

  • Create a slalom – children must run zig-zag between obstacles.

  • Jump over various objects.

  • Throw balls to knock down objects.

  • Throw balls into buckets or laundry baskets

  • Use water squirters to hit targets.

  • Make children fill up a cup of water, run a distance to another container, pour the water in the container, and repeat this until they fill up the container to a certain height.

Variations – Make it a competition and time them to see how long it takes them to go through the whole course.

Have fun and next time why not ask the children to build their own course!


Get Active with Hannah

quiz

quiz-wk1.pdf

website of the week

HWSSP Recommended Website of the week
Free certificates, score sheets and reward charts ready to download

Joe Wicks' Daily PE lesson

Fun ideas to help your kids stay healthy