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Health Literacy for Schools: Keeping fit

Resources, games and videos for introducing health literacy to children and young people

10 Minute Shake Up

Change4Life and Disney have teamed up to bring you play-along games inspired by your favourite Disney and Pixar characters. These 10 minute bursts of fun will really get your kids moving and count towards the 60 active minutes they need every day!

Games include:

  • Buzz's Space Run - can you run as fast as Buzz Lightyear? To infinity and beyond!

See the full list of games here.

Keeping Healthy Game

Heart Rate Exercises Game

Learn how to keep yourself healthy by discovering how different exercises such as walking and running can affect your heart rate. Ruby's heart rate will change as you make her sleep, sit, walk & run, watch how her body reacts to the different activities. See how her beats per minute change as she does different activities and heart rate exercises. Learn about your circulatory system, how your heart works as it pumps blood around your body, why blood goes to your lungs to pick up oxygen and what important roles your arteries and veins have in the process.

Credit: Science Kids

Exercise videos for Children

Credit: Joe Wicks; Andrew Sealy, British Heart Foundation, Lisa Young

Dance Radio

School Radio provides three co-ordinated series that provide dance resources for KS1 and KS2 PE Lessons. The series develop from simple movements based on everyday experiences through to creating their own dances. It gets the children moving, as well as letting them be creative.

There are also other series which look at combining music, dance and drama to explore a specific historical period or Computing curriculum.

Chance to shine

A bank of free resources for Primary and Secondary schools so that teachers can confidently lead their cricket sessions.

Free Cricket Resources for Schools 

PE Resources Bank

PE Resources Bank

Free resources, include GCSE PE worksheets and questions, resources for netball, trampolining, basketball  and more.

Free Resources Archives – PE Resources Bank

Youth Sport Trust

Lots of free resources available, which you can filter by school level. There is also the option to filter by inclusion, leadership, physical activity or wellbeing.

Search - Youth Sport Trust

BBC Bitesize

Find out more about BBC Bitesize. - BBC Bitesize

The BBC Bitesize website has some resources on exercise, dance, balance and co-ordination.

Dancing - Early years Expressive Arts and Design - BBC Bitesize

1st level Physical Education

GCSE Physical Education