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Get active through physical skills, ball and cardiovascular skills. Keep a record of your exercise and learn more about your body through playing outside and movement games.
Get active through physical skills, ball and cardiovascular skills. Keep a record of your exercise and learn more about your body through playing outside and movement games.
    Relation to Curriculum in England: = Art = Design & Technology = Maths = Physical Education = Science
    Download Links: = Activity Plan = Activity Sheet(s)
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Activity One - Self-Portrait

Activity 1
Self-Portrait

  • Mirror
  • White card
  • Pencil
  • Paint
  • Paintbrushes
  • Ar1/1.2 to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
Activity Two - Measuring My Body

Activity 2
Measuring My Body

  • Sc2/2.3a notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults
  • Ma2/3.1a choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction m/cm to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers
Activity Three - Play Outside

Activity 3
Play Outside

  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination
Activity Four - Record My Exercise

Activity 4
Record My Exercise

  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
  • Ma2/4.1a interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables
Activity Five - Physical Skills

Activity 5
Physical Skills

  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination
Activity Six - Create An Exercise Circuit

Activity 6
Create An Exercise Circuit

  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Activity Seven - Design An Obstacle Course

Activity 7
Design An Obstacle Course

    Optional suitable equipment such as a:
  • Ball
  • Hoop
  • Skipping rope
  • Sticks
  • Cones
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Activity Eight - Movement Games

Activity 8
Movement Games

  • Music
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
  • PE1/1.1c perform dances using simple movement patterns
Activity Nine - Pack A Picnic

Activity 9
Pack A Picnic

  • Variety of ingredients to prepare a picnic.
  • Appropriate kitchen utensils to prepare a picnic
  • Sc2/2.3b find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene
  • DT1/2.1a use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes
Activity One - Self-Portrait
Activity 1
Self-Portrait
Practical Resources:
  • Mirror
  • White card
  • Pencil
  • Paint
  • Paintbrushes
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Ar1/1.2 to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
Downloads:
Activity Two - Measuring My Body
Activity 2
Measuring My Body
Practical Resources:
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3a notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults
  • Ma2/3.1a choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction m/cm to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers
Downloads:
Activity Three - Play Outside
Activity 3
Play Outside
Practical Resources:
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination
Downloads:
Activity Four - Record My Exercise
Activity 4
Record My Exercise
Practical Resources:
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
  • Ma2/4.1a interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables
Downloads:
Activity Five - Physical Skills
Activity 5
Physical Skills
Practical Resources:
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination
Downloads:
Activity Six - Create An Exercise Circuit
Activity 6
Create An Exercise Circuit
Practical Resources:
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Downloads:
Activity Seven - Design An Obstacle Course
Activity 7
Design An Obstacle Course
Practical Resources:
    Optional suitable equipment such as a:
  • Ball
  • Hoop
  • Skipping rope
  • Sticks
  • Cones
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
Downloads:
Activity Eight - Movement Games
Activity 8
Movement Games
Practical Resources:
  • Music
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise
  • PE1/1.1a master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
  • PE1/1.1c perform dances using simple movement patterns
Downloads:
Activity Nine - Pack A Picnic
Activity 9
Pack A Picnic
Practical Resources:
  • Variety of ingredients to prepare a picnic.
  • Appropriate kitchen utensils to prepare a picnic
Relation to Curriculum in England:
  • Sc2/2.3b find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)
  • Sc2/2.3c describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene
  • DT1/2.1a use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes
Downloads:

Additional Hands-On Activities

Christopher Columbus Activities
Year 1 / Key Stage 1

Christopher Columbus

£4.50
Five Senses Activities
Year 1 / Key Stage 1

Five Senses

£4.50
Flying Machines Activities
Year 2 / Key Stage 1

Flying Machines

£4.50
Human Body Activities
Year 1 / Key Stage 1

Human Body

£4.50
Inspired By Shapes: One Activities
Year 1 / Key Stage 1

Inspired By Shapes: One

£4.00
Neil Armstrong Activities
Year 1 / Key Stage 1

Neil Armstrong

£4.50
Vincent van Gogh Activities
Year 1 / Key Stage 1

Vincent van Gogh

£4.50

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