Healthy Schools Homework Active Second Level
Healthy Eating Active Lifestyles Towards A Happy You (HEALTHY). The Healthy Schools approach emphasises why healthy eating, physical activity and healthy lifestyles are important for your children’s health and wellbeing.
This month we will be looking at aspects of Active within PEPAS (Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport)
SCHOOL: Active in SchoolIn school some of the activities we are doing to develop this theme are
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COMMUNITY: Active in the Community
These are the Healthy Schools partnership activities that you and/or your children could attend after school or in the community.
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HOME: Active within Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport (PEPAS)
Working together with your child at home is a very valuable part of this topic. Below we have given you some simple ideas to experience in your family.
1 Play a game of jump ropes with someone at home. Research jump rope rhymes to make it more fun. Learn at least 2 of these to use with your friends. Identify the parts of the body that are given a work out during this activity. Aim to list at least 3 body parts.
2 Being a kid means that you are more flexible. Flexibility means that you can bend and stretch without any trouble. Keeping flexible makes you feel good because you can achieve many things. Try out these exercises to improve your flexibility even more- touch your toes, do side stretches to the right and the left, try tumbling over as in a front roll or some star jumps, play some leap frog or dance around to your favourite music. Talk to someone at home about which of these activities you intend to keep up.
3 Make up an “Exercise is Fun” timetable/ chart for one week with the days of the week going along the top in columns. Start with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and finish with Saturday. One box for each day of the week. Down the side have three slots, running along in rows. It will look like a grid. The rows will record 15 minutes exercise, 30 minutes exercise and 45 minutes exercise per day. Draw into the grid boxes the type of exercise you complete eg. a ball for football, a racket for tennis, ropes for skipping, legs for running and the like. Get someone at home to help you complete this chart and to reward you for your efforts.
You may wish to try some of these suggestions to enhance your child’s experience.