Premier’s Sporting Challenge
Every year, our school participates in the Premier’s Sporting Challenge. It aims to engage young people in sport and physical activity and encourages them to lead healthy, active lifestyles. Over a 10 week period, classes are challenged to accumulate time spent in physical activities during class-time, lunch-time and recess, after school, on the weekends, and incidentally.
There are four levels of achievement: Bronze (average 30 minutes per day), Silver (average 45 minutes a day), Gold (average 60 minutes per day), and Diamond (average 80 minutes per day). We record our minutes in our class record book, and get a certificate at the end. The school can get new sporting equipment if we achieve well!
Here are some suggestions for activities – anything that makes you ‘huff and puff’ will do:
- Moderate activities: Brisk walking, bike riding with friends, skateboarding, lawn bowls, playground games, yoga, dancing, etc.
- Vigorous activities: Australian Football, netball, aerobics, soccer, running, fitness circuits, dance, swimming laps and training for sport, etc.
- Incidental activities: Walking to and from school, climbing lots of stairs, gardening (eg. lawn mowing), housework (eg. sweeping floors),
- School activities: Playground games, school sport, PE or fitness lessons, cross country or athletics training, dance group
I like to get active by riding bikes and going swimming. Sometimes I just make do by climbing the stairs to our classroom, carrying heavy stuff!
Hi again,
Miss K did you use a picture of our class cause i can see some of my friends ?
Bye
Yup, I didn’t have a picture of my own class, so I grabbed this one from Miss D’s blog, The Sport Shed at http://thesportshed.edublogs.org/ – I hope you don’t mind too much!
Hi again,
No i don’t mind at all i was just wandering if the picture was out class
Bye