Healthy Schools Homework Achieving Early 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 Achievingwithin PEPAS (Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport)

SCHOOL:Achieving in School
In school some of the activities we are doing to develop this theme are
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COMMUNITY:Achievingin 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: Achievingat home
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 with your child.
Achievement in sports should be about having fun. If your child does not enjoy the time spent doing it, they will want to stop. So encouraging your child to try many different kinds of sports, exercises and skills is a good idea. Here is a list of some interesting ones you can try together at home.
 The Floor is Lava: A classic activity that doesn’t get enough credit.
 Paper Plate Skating: Grab a couple plates, step on them and skatearound the house!
 A Flash Light Scavenger Hunt: Turn off the lights and hide some objects around the house for preschoolers to go find with a flash light. They’ll be begging for you to hide them again!
 Target Practice: Set up a target practice for preschoolers to throw something at ( mud, bean bags or balls)
 Hop Skip & Jump: Set up paper plates around the house or outside and have them jump from one to the next. If you have different colour plates, that gives lots of options!
 String Scavenger Hunt:String some string around the room, through chairs and set up treasures along the way to find! Have them follow it through, going in and out, under and over to see what they can find!
 A Spy Game:Tape up a ‘spider web’ in the hallway for them to crawl through. Stick pompoms or cotton balls to it for them to pick up along the way.
 Jumping Game:See how far they can jump!
 Lines of Colored Tape: Tape lines on the floor to act as a balance beam. Or blow pompoms or cotton balls along them!
 Newspaper Throwing:Have a little indoor ‘basketball’ with newspapers!
 Balance Beam:If you have old boards laying around, or even a line-up of books.
 Race with Straws and PomPoms:Set up a track to blow pompoms around. It’s much harder than it seems!
 Frisbee Toss: Find some paper plates to act as frisbees. Tape a couple of lines on the floor for targets and see where you can land them.