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Week beginning 13th July

This is our final week of PE before the summer holiday break. I hope you have managed to keep active during your time at home. Here are your final challenges to have a go at.

Monday: Coin toss workout- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwTiEmX0Wro

Tuesday: Christiano challenge- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC30KRZLImw
Cupid shuffle plank- This is very challenging, but have a go and see how far you can get. Copy the actions. You will be doing different moves in a plank position! Give it a go and see how you get on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wz3qUunLHc

Wednesday: Toilet paper challenge- There are different exercises you can do using toilet paper. Have a go at them all. Maybe you can come up with your own exercises. Set yourself a time limit or a number that you want to complete for each. Go head to head with someone else in your household. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449jr2OHwso

Thursday: Thunderstruck/ burpee challenge- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQ4Gx87nIM
Press up challenge- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnplz4yBdng

Friday: Sweat box challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdCS7Tn98_8

Week beginning 6 July

This week is Sports Week!! As we can’t have our usual Sports Day competition, it will be a little bit different this year. I have put together a collection of challenges for you to complete over the week. The attached document will explain each of the activities and what you need for each one. This is your chance to get competitive, to try and beat your own scores, others in your household and even those in your class. Remember to take lots of photos and videos to share on your class padlets so we can all see what a wonderful job you have all done! Let battle commence!! Enjoy and Good luck everyone!

Sports Week Activities

Week beginning 29th June

Now we are into summer and the weather has been getting really warm, so make sure you are drinking lots of water to keep hydrated!

Monday: Scavenger hunt- If there are items that you do not have in your household, please get your adult to give you an alternative object to find within the 30 second time frame. Your adult can also find additional objects for you to find to make extra rounds. You can decide if you would like extra questions. Compete against others in your household to see who can get the most amount of points. Feel free to repeat the video or add on as many rounds as you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxeesc1SqFk

Tuesday: Scavenger hunt 2- The same rules apply as yesterday! If there are items that you do not have in your household, please get your adult to give you an alternative object to find within the 30 second time frame. Your adult can also find additional objects for you to find to make extra rounds. You can decide if you would like extra questions. Compete against others in your household to see who can get the most amount of points. Feel free to repeat the video or add on as many rounds as you like.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGv66EzQJ8

Wednesday: Warm up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxzhAsO9ne0
Now you can train to be a Jedi- Follow the moves! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrVooYXnl8

Thursday: Training to be Superheros- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8IZfNrA17w
Superhero battle. Choose which move to do for each round. You can do this with a partner if you want to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HuFAkhPeKQ

Friday: Avengers training- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZFz44AB78
Defeat the supervillain- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKw91A_nTBw

Week Brginning 22nd June

Tuesday 23rd June is National Olympic Day, so this week you will be having a go at traditional games played from different Olympic nations. The 2020 Olympics was set to take part in Tokyo, Japan, so each day there will be a Japanese game and one from another country. There are a lot of countries that take part so I have selected a few.  On Friday you will have a Friday Challenge which will get you outside and exploring nature.
Here is the official Tokyo 2020 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENMhrEVa4XQ When it does get to take place, it’s going to be INCREDIBLE!
What can you find out about Japan? Here are some questions as a starting point. Share in some of the things you found out about the host nation in your class padlets.
 Question board

Monday:
Japan: Tokyo 10 Listen Up.
If you are in a school bubble, use your jumper as a blindfold or close your eyes. Your partner should use clapping to help get them to a chosen final destination.
Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6UX0eGo4AU
Gather approximately 10 sticks (or as many as you like). You will need a ball (or as used in the video, a ball of bags, or even lots of pairs of socks). Choose one person who has to try and collect all the sticks. Everyone else has to work together to hit that person below the waist. Whoever is successful in making contact then has to try and collect all the sticks. It can take more than one go to collect all the sticks. If you manage to collect them all without being hit, place them down on the floor and have another go- or as many goes as you like until you are hit. You get 1 point each time you pick them all up. Decide how many points is the target to win.
Non contact in school- individual stick per person. Play in pairs with one time keeper. Each child has 30 seconds to try and retrieve their stick. Their partner must do all they can to prevent them retrieving it. It is non contact so it is all about dodging. You can decide in your groups how many points you need in order to win! Make sure you keep changing around so that everyone gets a go at each element.

Tuesday
Japan: Tokyo Ten Kendama.
If you are in a school bubble, you could use a rolled up piece of paper or bring a sock ball from home. You will have to try this without a cup.
France: Un, deux, trois soleil- like grandmother’s footsteps. Mark out a length of at least 15-20 meters (depending on how much space you have. This is a little bit like the game what’s the time mr wolf. You have one person at one end who will shout Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil (Which means 1,2,3 Sun!). They will turn around and anyone caught moving will be sent to the start to try again. Everyone else must try and get to that person without being caught moving. They need to tag that person and run back to the start without being caught.
If you are in school, a non contact rule applies. Find a stick/stone as a marker and lay them out in line with the person shouting the instructions. You just need to get to your marker and then run back without being caught.
Petanque- This video explains how to play the game so you can have a go at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzQd0-g6so
If you are in a school bubble- have an individual pebble and aim towards a jack placed by the teacher.

Wednesday
Japan: TTT Active challenge play with no equipment
Anyone can do this as it requires no equipment
Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5wslWkPdw Here are some traditional Spanish games for you to have a go at. You may recognise some of them. If you don’t have the equipment, you can improvise. For example The Frog- you can use whatever you like as a target to aim closest to. You can use sock balls or paper instead of balls for throwing activities.
If you are in a school bubble you will have to be selective about the activities you can try. Where possible try and improvise in a way that you don’t have to use any equipment. 

Thursday
Japan: Tokyo Ten Janken
Anyone can do this as it requires no equipment.
Caribbean: Goma- A game played with rubber bands where the object is to capture as many of the opponents' rubber bands as possible. Players stand facing a wall or other vertical flat surface and bounce their rubber bands off the wall. If a player's rubber band falls to the ground and overlaps any rubber bands currently on the ground, then the overlapped rubber bands are captured. Use as many rubber bands as you like.
The most popular game in the Caribbean is cricket. This can be played with 2 or more people. One person uses a bat/racket, pan or anything they can to shield their legs/feet from being hit. When the ball is thrown you need to hit the ball away. The more space you have, the better. If the batter is hit in the legs/feet they swap with the bowler. You can score by number of ball hit, the amount of time batting or you can create a space that the batter has to run between to score runs after after ball.

Friday

Friday Challenge

Week Beginning 15th June

Here are some challenges that will get you to test your body strength and your accuracy of throwing. They give you a good chance to compete against others in your household. You could create a leader board with those in your household for all these activities and see who has the most points by the end of the week.

Monday: Plank golf. You could use socks or crumple some paper if you don’t have a ball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZ97T9zC18

Tuesday: The strike zone- throwing activity. Use a sock ball or paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0h00O0CGI

Wednesday: Backpack workout. Minimum of two rounds by repeating the video at least once. Do more rounds if you can. If it’s too easy, you can add weight to your bag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mrt6uLRCDQ

Thursday: Frisbee golf- If you don’t have a Frisbee or a disc, you can us a cap. This can be done inside or outside. Try playing against a partner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NG8nIRL0_8

Friday: Basket soccer. Depending on how much room you have, lay down 3 markers. They can be in a vertical or horizontal line. If you have more room, you may want to add more markers to kick from. Use a sock ball if you are inside, or a ball if you are outside. You can decide how long you want your time to be for the challenge. Then try and beat it. You can play against people in your household to see who can score the most points in the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3cUVeX-Guc

Week Beginning 8th June

Try these new activities working on coordination, agility and strength. You can try all of these against others in your household.
Monday: Coin challenge: what level can you make it to? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_SafllVZyc
Tuesday: Pass 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJQeXoGSPtA You can try by kicking, throwing underarm or throwing overarm.
Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFnd4KmMhE Bottle flip challenge- 3 squats, 2 bottle flips- (1 point each time your bottle lands upright). How many can you do in 1 minute? Challenge someone in your household. You can also swap the squats and try with press ups, sit ups, star jumps, lunges or another skill of your choice. Increase the time if you like or see if you can beat your score in 1 minute.
Thursday: Work on your coordination by trying these juggling/throwing skills. There are a few options of what you can use for this. If you want to challenge yourself, use a ball or rolled up pair of socks. Who can juggle using 3 balls (pairs of socks)?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4h9J6pXE8A
Friday:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIhA-gs-SgY Plank challenge. How tall can you make your tower without it collapsing or you ending your plank?

Week Beginning 1st June

This week you will be doing some tennis challenges. Don’t worry if you don’t have a tennis racket. Some options are: Use a shoe, book, your hand, hockey stick or cricket bat. If you don’t have a tennis ball, you could use a pair of socks. If you are using socks, why don’t you try using a saucepan. If you are not able to get outside, use a sponge ball or a pair of socks inside.

Monday: Set a target. Using either balls, socks or shuttlecocks, see how many you can land in the target. You can try throwing, or hitting in with a tennis racket. If it’s too hard, move closer to the target. To make it harder, stand further away. You could play against a partner to see 1) who can land the most on the target. 2) Who can get all of theirs into the target first. 3) Who can hit the target from the furthest away.

Tuesday: With a partner, see how many hits you can do, using a tennis racket and tennis ball, without dropping it. If you don’t have a partner, use a wall to hit the ball against. To make it easier, let the ball bounce before you hit it again. To make it harder, don’t let the ball bounce at all. If you don’t have a tennis racket, use a shoe, your hand or a book. Alternatively, you could use a pair of socks and a saucepan.

Wednesday: Using shuttlecocks/socks aim to sink the oppositions ship. You could use a towel as a target and lay it on the floor. Stand roughly 5m apart, behind your towels. Agree how many socks/shuttlecocks are needed to sink their ship. Once you have thrown all your arrows, a point is awarded to the winner if the ship is sunk. You could also use a tennis racket to hit the socks at the target. Reset- and go again. If neither ship is sunk, reset and go again. Decide between you how many points you need to win.

Thursday: How many hit ups can you do using your tennis racket without it falling on the floor? See if you can alternate between using both sides of the racket. Set a time limit i.e. 30 seconds (it can be more or less) to see how many you can do in that time. Try hitting the ball down as many times as you can too. You could see if you can beat someone else in your household. If you really want to challenge yourself, see how many hits could can do on the side of the racket- This is trickier than it looks!

Friday: Create a ‘net’ by making a line on the floor using whatever you can find. If you already have a net, then you can use that. Make the playing area as big as you like. You will need a partner so that you can hit the ball over the ‘net’ to your partner. See if you can get a rally going. How many times can you hit the ball over the next in a row as a pair?

Week Beginning 18th May

Some more challenges for you this week. Watch the videos as they will tell you how each activity works. You can do them as many times as you like.

 Monday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJY7kDJJrp0 How many times can you complete it without putting your foot down?
Tuesday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzWyMWAEfk4 How many jumps can you get in 20 seconds? Why not make it 30 seconds or more?

Wednesday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA4XN3Pynig How many did you complete? Why don’t you works your way up to find out the longest amount of time you can manage without stopping.

Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrkzkckZN4 How many star jumps can you do in 20 seconds? What is the most you can do without stopping?

Friday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfSl3G0p4u0 How many throws does it take for you to knock over the tower? How many can you get in a row?

Week Beginning 11th May

Some more challenges for you this week. Watch the videos as they will tell you how each activity works. You can do them as many times as you like.
Monday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ymsKEgKtw&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=36&t=0s
Tuesday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4ytgX77bM

Wednesday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bjCC2dJ0Ps&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=30&t=16s

Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTx2tiT_VQ&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=25&t=0s

Friday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG4ju1KmG0g

Week Beginning 4th May

This week you will be doing some yoga. This will help you to focus on your breathing and help you to be able to feel calm. This may be quite new for you all so if you find it tricky, don’t worry because the more you practice, the easier it will get. You can always repeat the videos if you need to.
 Monday:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td6zFtZPkJ4
 Tuesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SedzswEwpPw
 Wednesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF7O6-QabIo  
 Thursday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-gKPNyrTA
 Friday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEEsdXn8oG8

Week Beginning 27th April

You have two Bingo cards to complete this week. By completing all the challenges, you achieve a gold medal. Can you become a double gold medalist? On the map there are lots of activities for you to complete. Don’t worry, you don’t have to complete them all in one go- you can split them over the 5 days. Alternatively, you can make them harder by increasing the time you spend on each activity or increase the number you want to complete.

Physical Bingo
Physical Bingo Makaton

Week Beginning 20th April

Welcome back, I hope you have all managed to enjoy the Easter break whilst staying at home. I have some more virtual PE challenges for you. Make sure you stretch first as we have practiced during PE lessons. You could even use some of the warm up stretches from the Joe Wicks workouts. You can do the same for your cool down, you here is the reminder of the cool down stretches video.  In the summer term, we practice our athletics, so this is your chance to practice some of those skills that will help you. If you are able to get outside to do these, then please do so. Remember to keep drinking plenty of water, eat lots of fruits and vegetables and most importantly, stay safe.

Monday: Shuttle run. Set 2 markers roughly 5-10m apart (depending on how much space you have). How may times can you run between the markers? Why not try 30 seconds to start off with. To make it harder you can run for longer periods of time- you could increase by 5-10 seconds each time. You could try racing against someone in your household to see if you can run quicker than them. You should be doing this task for a minimum of 10 minutes.

Tuesday: Long jump. As we have practiced in lesson time, see how far you can jump starting with 2 feet and landing on 2 feet. Use a marker/line as a starting point. Who can jump furthest in your household? Try using a run up. Does that make any difference to how far you can jump? What about starting on 1 foot and landing on 2, without a run up. Set two markers roughly 10meters apart. What is the fewest number of jumps it takes you to get to the other marker? You should be doing this task for a minimum of 10 minutes.

Wednesday: Triple jump- remember to think of this as a hop, step and jump. Break them down to each individual skill if you need to. Start still by a marker and remember you must finish the jump on 2 feet. Does the distance change if you take a run up? What about starting the hop on the opposite foot? Who can jump the furthest in your household? Set a distance of 10m, or however much space you have, and see how many standing triple jump moves it takes to get from one marker to the other. You should be doing this task for a minimum of 10 minutes.

Thursday: Skips. Don’t worry if you don’t have a skipping ropes, you can use the action of arms out doing small circles. For those of you who are not very confident with skipping, don’t run away!! Here is a basic tutorial which explains that you can use your skipping rope out to the side to get the timings of your jumps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVctfW2OCyQ
There is no pressure for you to be able to string hundreds of jumps together, it is about keeping moving and working on the technique of when to jump. For those of you who are more confident, have an experiment using two footed jumps, hopping on one leg, changing legs, or running with it across your outside space- this being particularly useful for sports day races. Equally, if you don’t have a skipping rope, feel free to practice the different techniques anyway. You should be doing this task for a minimum of 10 minutes.

Friday: Star jumps. How many star jumps can you do in a row? Set yourself a target number to complete in 30 seconds. Then try to beat your score. Now make the time longer. What is the longest time you keep jumping for? I wonder if anyone can do more than 50 or even 100 in a row! Find your favourite music and do star jumps in time to the beat. Maybe you have a few songs you could use. If you want to challenge yourselves even more, you can make your star jumps into explosive star jumps by bending your knees and springing up into a star shape. See how many you can do of those!

Joe Wicks will still be doing his workouts so feel free to do those as well as or instead of these challenges. Just remember to keep moving! 

Easter Break

Hello everyone! I’ve really missed teaching you all over the last few weeks. It’s the Easter Holidays now, but it doesn’t mean you can’t stay active.

You can continue with the Joe Wicks workouts on his YouTube channel, (I will keep doing them too!), or you can redo some of the other activities that I have set over the last couple of weeks. You might have found other ways to keep yourselves moving too, which is wonderful. Keep those going if you can! Remember to keep drinking lots of water, and getting plenty of fruits and vegetables into your diet so that you can continue to stay healthy.

Stay safe and enjoy the break.
Miss Cox

Week beginning Monday 30th March

Well done to everyone who managed to complete a challenge every day last week. If you managed to complete all of Joe Wicks videos, amazing effort as I know he worked you all very hard. If you managed to complete my shorter challenges, again, super effort to make sure you are keeping moving everyday. You are all Sports Stars! Joe Wicks is continuing his live challenges so here is a reminder of the link to his YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 Keep moving everyone, you are all doing a wonderful job!

Remember, keeping healthy isn’t just about exercise, but about your diet too. Make sure you are thinking about what you are eating and drinking. Remember to get your 5 a day of fruit and vegetables and drink plenty of water to keep you hydrated. You will feel so much better for it! As a side challenge, maybe you could take a photo or draw a picture of a healthy meal you have had this week and share it in your class padlet. It would be a good opportunity to share ideas with each other, to find out what you like and don’t like. Maybe you might come across a healthy food that you have not tried before that you could try.
Stay safe everyone, keep washing your hands and keep moving!

Monday: Kids work out beginner 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A_HjHZxfI
Tuesday: Can you spell your name and complete the exercise for each letter? What about your middle name and surname or people in your family? See Alphabet Exercises below.
Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc1Ag9m7XQo Originally these were shorter challenges. This video is longer but feel free to just do a smaller section if it is too much. As with the Joe Wicks videos, you can break it down and start with 10 minutes and gradually build up by 5 minutes every day. 
Thursday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc1Ag9m7XQo  The same rules apply as yesterday. 
Friday: Can you spell your name and complete the exercise for each letter? What about your middle name and surname or people in your family? See if you can do more than Tuesday- does it feel any easier this time? 

Alphabet Exercises

Remember that it’s important to cool down after each challenge. Here is a reminder of last week’s cool down stretches.