We always encourage schools to promote Active Home lives to boost children’s ability to learn and engage in school. Now pupils are at home more often, it is more important than ever to support young people to be active at home.
A free downloadable resource that families can use to create active adventures.
Visit siteReal PE at home helps children to continue to develop multiple skills through fun games and challenges.
Visit siteA collection of fun curriculum-linked activities for families.
Visit siteMost schools set ‘homework’ from time to time. Connecting it to physical activity is a simple way to make homework fun and get families moving more. It could focus purely on being active. Or, it could be linked to a specific subject to help children learn in a different way. Free and simple active homework ideas include:
We recognise that those children we can support at home do better at school.
Emily Kirk, Headteacher talking about Real Play
School websites and newsletters provide a great opportunity to promote being active at home. How many parents at your school know that their children should be doing 30 minutes of physical activity at school and 30 minutes at home each day? And do they know those 30 minutes could be done in 10-minute chunks? Or that they could be free activities such as walking fast or running?
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