Active learning can help bring any subject to life. Imagine teaching maths with dance moves or history through walking. There are plenty of ways to energise your classroom while delivering the core curriculum.
Physical Activity isn’t all about physical education. Although, a good PE Curriculum obviously helps. All schools need to deliver the national curriculum across a broad range of subjects. But you can use Active Learning to teach any subject.
Building physical activity into lessons, such as maths, can have huge benefits. It can help raise attitude, attainment, confidence and self-esteem for subject areas while improving physical activity levels.
Even simple tweaks like asking pupils to stand up rather than put their hand up can make a big difference. Take it further by positioning different answers to questions around the classroom to get pupils thinking on their feet.
Start with small changes and gradually build up physical activity from there. There are lots of lesson plans and resources below to help.
Active Me 360 offers a range of active schools services, including Maths on the Move and Curriculum Physical Education. It also provides teacher training and support. These services are designed to improve your students’ physical literacy and overall well-being.
A-life provides healthy living workshops, fun fitness, and alcohol and drug awareness sessions for primary schools. The workshops support and promote physical activity in schools.
BBC Super Movers offers free and fun curriculum-linked resources arranged by Key Stage and subject. Perfect for getting your classroom moving while they learn.
imoves offers resources for teachers, which are designed to get primary school children learning actively. Add an active spin to your lessons with their free trial.
Real PE transforms how schools deliver PE in order to include, challenge and support every child to be active. It enables pupils to develop physical literacy, emotional and thinking skills so that they can excel in PE, Sport and life.
The Skip2bfit programme was developed by working Headteachers and positively impacts on pupils’ ability to learn. As well as improving fitness, the workshops encourage a growth mindset and can help improve mental maths and number recognition.
Succeed In is an online Primary PE platform. It enables teachers to invest their time in other areas of the curriculum. Sign up and use their management platform for free.
Teach Active is an online resource that provides teachers with lesson plans and resources to deliver the Primary Maths and English curriculum through physical activity.
Discover more ways to help your pupils reach their 60 minutes of daily physical activity on our Daily Activity page.
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