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HAPPY HEART PLAYGROUND GAMES PROJECT

PROMOTING ACTIVE LIFESTYLES AND HELPING TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS


The project is intended to link the extensive curriculum work on the body, which is a regular favourite with teachers, with physical education lessons and the opportunity to be active during lunch times.

The happy heart pack provides extensive information in both key stages enabling teachers to explore a range of practical and theoretical activities.

PROJECT AIMS
• To encourage the development of Playground Games to promote active lifestyles.
• To improve the standard of behaviour in the playground at lunch time through the use of playground games.
• To reduce playground accidents.
• To make playtime more enjoyable through organised and structured play.
• To accommodate a ‘quiet area’.
• To consider and clarify the role of the Midday Supervisory Assistants through planned training sessions.
• To improve the management of games equipment.

BODY CARE ROADSHOW

The National Curriculum requires schools to teach specific subjects and themes to a certain level within each academic year.

The Bodycare Roadshow meets the requirements of the National Curriculum for health-related fitness and has cross-curricular benefits for many other subjects such as mathematics, science and information technology.

The roadshow is aimed mainly at Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum which focuses on seven to eleven year olds. The roadshow programme would need to be adapted in areas operating a two tier system.

In primary schools (years 3 and 4) the roadshow takes the form of a five week programme, working with each class for an hour each week.

In the middle schools, the programme is for a week block, with fitness testing being carried out in PE lesson times and extra curricular opportunities at lunchtimes and after school.

The programme is suitable for years 5 and 6 but can also be used for years 7 and 8 also (where they are in the same school).

AIMS
To increase the level of physical activity of young people
• To improve the cardio-respiratory fitness levels of young people
• To emphasise both in schools and in the community, the importance of regular exercise for a health benefit.

OBJECTIVES


• To ensure a tangible benefit to the health and fitness of young people
•  To encourage a co-ordinated approach to exercise for young people that involves as many other agencies as possible.

EUROPEAN TEST OF PHYSICAL FITNESS

EUROFIT - THE REASONS FOR EUROFIT

• Physical fitness is an important component of health and of physical education
• Assessment of physical fitness is of value to educators and children
• EUROFIT is a contribution to education

TESTS
• Tests of cardio-respiratory endurance
• Endurance shuttle run
• Bicycle ergometer test
• Strength
• Static strength - hand grip
• Explosive strength (Power) - Standing broad jump
• Muscular Endurance
• Functional strength - Bent arm hang
• Trunk strength - Sit-ups
• Speed
• Running speed agility-Shuttle run
• Speed of limb movement-Plate tapping
• Flexibility
• Flexibility-Sit and Reach
• Balance
• Total body balance-Flamingo balance