KS2 · Physical education · Year 6
Being active, fit and healthy
Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility refined
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Your learning goal
I can participate in activities that help me to enjoy being active so I stay fit and healthy.
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What you’ll learn
I can participate in activities that help me to enjoy being active so I stay fit and healthy.
Key learning points
- Move: warming up safely requires a gentle increase in intensity and must prepare our bodies so we avoid injury.
- Move: using correct techniques to warm up our bodies helps us to stay healthy during exercise.
- Think: understanding different components of fitness can help to ensure we warm up thoroughly and exercise effectively.
- Feel: warming up before intense exercise demonstrates self-discipline and responsibility.
- Connect: working with others and having fun while being active shows respect.
Words to know
- healthy
- being fit and mobile, free from illness and able to easily do everyday things
- exercise
- physical activity that improves or maintains health, fitness and overall well-being by strengthening muscles, heart and lungs
- activities
- tasks you do for fun, learning and/or exercise
Common mistakes
Some pupils might think that being active and fit requires gruelling, high impact activity, that maximises heart rate and leads to physical exhaustion.
Activities should suit the goal you are trying to achieve. High impact, exhausting activities are suited to improve cardiovascular endurance. Low impact, relaxing exercising are suited to developing other components of fitness e.g. flexibility.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Few exercises will only improve one component, e.g pupils may get out of breath doing squats so there is a secondary benefit to cardiovascular endurance, however squats are best for improving muscular strength. Discussions prompted are valuable and should be encouraged for a 'best fit' approach.