Let's keep active!
Welcome to our new online activity centre!
Hertford and Ware School Sports Partnership want to help you to be active whilst the coronavirus outbreak is keeping us all at home. We hope that adding any of these activities into your new daily routine will also add some extra fun!
Look after each other
As it is national mental health week don’t forget to be kind to yourself and to others around you.
Send a virtual hug or pop one in the post: draw around your upper body and arms spread out (could be on newspaper, once it’s been read!!), decorate or colour it in, cut it out making sure the arms are loose and send that to someone you can’t hug in person so they can wrap your arms around them
CHALLenge
Fast Feet
Equipment needed:
A ball, 2 markers and a stopwatch.
How to play
Place down a starting marker and then a second marker 5 steps away.
Start the stopwatch and dribble the ball with your feet around the marker and back.
Each time you do this you score 1 point.
If you lose control of the ball, do not give up but keep going.
Can you beat your score, practice and get to 20 dribbles to the marker and back?
SKill
Make and Fly a Kite
Equipment needed:
· Large piece of paper
· 2 bamboo supports or canes
· Light string or fishing line or twine
· Scissors, hole punch or cocktail stick
· Ribbons or streams of tissue or crepe paper
How to make:
1. Make the sail of your kite with a large sheet of paper by folding the paper in half lengthways.
2. On either side, measure 15cm down from the top. Use ruler or other straight edge to draw a line between these marks and the top centre.
3. Draw two more lines from the marks at the side to the bottom centre, to form a diamond. Carefully cut out your diamond.
4. Cut the bamboo or canes to the same size as the diamond shape. Tie them together with string/twine – checking that the spar-ends still line up with the corners of the paper sail – then knot firmly. Trim the twine.
5. At each corner, use something sharp (such as a cocktail stick) to pierce two holes on either side of the spar. Thread twine through each hole (this is fiddly!) and tie it to the spar. Glue the spars to the paper and allow to dry.
6. Attach a piece of twine firmly to the spar at the left and right corners, allowing plenty of slack. Fix your flying line firmly to this twine.
7. Cut strips of crepe paper or ribbon and tie them to the bottom of the kite.
Flying your kite:
Wait for a dry, breezy day – strong winds might damage your kite. When you’re ready for your kite’s maiden voyage, find someone to help you launch the kite. Stand upwind of the kite, and ask your helper to stand directly downwind. Launch and enjoy the sight of your kite fluttering in the breeze!
outdoors
Outdoor Fun with your Shadow
Shadow Tag
In this fun version of Tag, you tag each other's shadow with your feet instead of tagging their body. Thus, it must be played on a sunny day. The closer to noon, the greater the difficulty.
Number of Players: Two or a small group.
Equipment: None.
Making a Human Sundial
In the morning, go outside and, using some chalk, draw around your feet. Ask someone to draw around your shadow. From time to time, throughout the day, go back out and stand back in your footprints. Again, ask someone else to draw around your shadow. At the end of the day you can see how your shadow has changed and moved!
Number of People: Two
Equipment: A hard surface and chalk
Get Active with Hannah
Move with Matt
website of the week
HWSSP Recommended Website of the week
Forestry England have a range of stay at home activities for the whole family to enjoy. From a webcam in a Goshawk nest, to a mathematical trick to measure trees, there are lots of fun things to try out.
quiz
This week - Alphabet Game
Alphabet QUIZ[54375].pdf