St Paul's Catholic Primary School

St. Paul’s Catholic Primary School
Sisefield Road, Kings Norton
Birmingham B38 9JB

Telephone: 0121 464 1546 Fax: 0121 464 2650
Principal: Nichola Damms

30th March 2020

Dear Parent/Carer,

Home Physical Activity/Physical Education for the children of St Paul’s Catholic Primary School.
Amidst the current situation of COVID-19 and school closures, we want to support all of our pupils and parents in getting active at home. Whilst we are all in this situation it gives us the ideal opportunity for the children to get daily physical exercise, which is also proven to improve academic achievement and mental well-being.

A minimum of 60 Minutes physical activity is recommended daily, at St Pauls’ during a school day, we would normally try to ensure every child has at least 30 of those minutes of exercise with us. It really is important. By exercise, we mean activities that increase the heart-rate or develop strength, muscular endurance or flexibility. Ideally, exercise will be a mix of some or all of these.

Whilst the weather remains lovely and if you have an outdoor space, get the children outside to run, jump, throw, catch and generally move around energetically. If this is not possible, there are lots of things that can be done indoors too.
Make it fun, use the British Heart Foundation’s video and target heart rate calculator to work out the range your child should be aiming for http://extras.bhf.org.uk/patientinfo/heart-rate-calculator/app/index.html

Teach them how to measure their heart rate and let them feel it. Challenge the children to get into their target zone and sustain it.

All exercise should begin with a warm-up and followed by a cool-down. If your child has any known physical issues, then please bear these in mind before and during exercise.

Listed below are some links and resources that parents and children can use to remain active. We will try to update the list and the resources as they become available, there is a huge amount of work going on with partners across the country, be we are also aware that we do not want to bombard you.

1. Joe Wicks is very popular at this early stage. It is a 20 minute workout ideal for Parents and Children. The workout begins at 9.00am so can be the ideal start to ‘a school day’
search ‘PE with Joe’ on You tube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

2. Chance to Shine provide cricket coaching and have been in to a number of our Cluster schools. Each week, they are recommending a different activity, this week it is the ‘Cool Catcher.’
They will have a new challenge each week (this seems to be suited to EYFS/KS1)
Search @Chance2Shine on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
https://www.chancetoshine.org/

3. Supermovers is made by the BBC and links Physical Activity to other curriculum areas. This is a whole site of ideas for KS1 & 2 if you want more than just one off Physical Activities
Search online https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

4. Cosmic Kids Yoga are sessions themed on popular films and stories, this is ideal for indoor spaces
Search Cosmic Kids Yoga on You tube
https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

5. The two major organisations in the PE World are the Youth Sports Trust and Sport England. Numerous ideas, resources and videos are being added daily to Twitter
Search #stayhomestayactive on Twitter (YST)
Search #stayinworkout on Twitter (Sport England)
For excellent home learning PE cards/ideas/activities Search online https://www.youthsporttrust.org/free-home-learning-resources-0

For Disney Primary School Dances Search online https://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/activities/disney-workouts/
For older children (Secondary Training Activities Search online https://www.nike.com/gb/ntc-app

Sending all the best to our special families,
Keep moving!

Sarah Lay                       Mrs N Damms                          Miss G Concannon
Cluster PE Lead             Head Teacher                           PE Coordinator