Benefits of Physical Activity

The Active 12 in 12 Challenge is our take on the Active For Life Playbooks.  These are a great resource to share with your parents and support our Active 60 Minutes agenda. 

It’s an opportunity to influence home environments and provide guidance for parents.  We know from your feedback that this is something you’d like our help with. 

These resources also support the fundamental movement of our children which will support them in accessing the PE curriculum and also hopefully provide stronger relationships between parent and child and make connections to healthy active lifestyles. 

The Playbooks are designed to provide inspiration with a 15–30-minute activity that parents can set up and play with their child each day over 12 days.  See attached resources and the following link for the online resources

Active For Life Playbook Resources

This link allows parents to select the age group of their child and could be viewed on a mobile device.

If you wish to send this out to parents and engage your pupils, this could be a fun challenge to do as a whole school.  Perhaps set it up as a competition?  Maybe ask them to share using social media posts tagging your school and @ShapeLearning, using the hashtag #Active12in12. You could give prizes for the funniest/most creative posts.

We’ve prepared a little infographic to share with parents as to the benefits of physical activity as another way of influencing and advocating the message around the importance of physical activity.  See attached resource.

As always, let us know if you need any further support with this.  We’d be really interested to see and hear how you get on with the Active 12 in 12 challenge.