Active learning is about incorporating activity into all elements of the school day - not just physical education lessons. Explore ways to make your curriculum more active or introduce active bursts to keep your children engaged!

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Why is it important?

Building physical activity into lessons can have huge benefits. In addition to improving physical activity, it can improve focus, attitude, attainment and behaviour in the classroom.

Benefits include:

• Children being ready to learn
• Improving concentration on subjects
• Better engagement in the classroom
• Providing a break from learning
• Enhancing physical and mental well-being
• Building friendship
• Improving classroom behaviour

All of the above have a direct impact on children's confidence and self-esteem. Start with short regular active bursts in lessons or try incorporating activity into curriculum areas such as maths.

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Active Learning Free Resources

Active Learning starts the moment a child enters the school building.  From active registration with initiatives such as The Daily Mile, through to building in active bursts in every lesson, there are endless opportunities to get children and moving and meeting their target of 30 minutes physical activity at school per day.

There are numerous free resources which will help inspire you and promote active learning in classrooms:

• Visit the Youth Sport Trust and School Games Active Recovery Hub for over 250 activity ideas.  These help to boost activity before, during and after school.  Resources can be filtered by age and when the activity is planned to happen.
• Register your school for The Daily Mile.  You will then receive updates on ideas to keep the initiative fresh in your school.
• Find 10 minute games to re-energise children with Better Health, Healthier Families. In addition, there the website features lots of information about healthy eating and food facts.
• Find KS1 and KS2 active learning videos wth BBC Supermovers. With a huge range of resources covering English, Maths, Science and PSHE, you can also find active videos for use in classrooms at wetplay times.  
• Access free short interactive classroom based activities with Go Noodle.
• Access over 120 games with Boing Play These are perfect for delivering inclusive PE or short bursts of activity during the school day.
• Sign up for the FA Shooting Stars programme. You can also access details of the FA Active Play through Storytelling.
• Join the Imovement to receive free active blast videos, assemblies, webinars.
• Find yoga, guided meditation and mindfulness videos with Cosmic Kids.
• Find ideas to help girls get more active with This Girl Can. 
• Access free, curriculum-linked activities with Premier League Primary Stars. You can find lots of ideas for helping your children get active, as well as fun videos, games and worksheets for Maths, English and Health and Wellbeing. 

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Invest in Active Learning 

Furthermore, there are additional resources which can be purchased using PE premium funding to help promote Active Learning:

• Find short physical workouts which can be used in the classroom with Fitter Future.  
• Subscribe to IMoves for resources to support Active Learning.
• Find over 250 physical activity challenges with Real Play
• Improve whole school physical and mental health with Burn to Learn. Their ideas will help to increase social interaction and movement in the classroom.
• Access active Maths and English lesson plans with Teach Active.
• Engage with Skip2BeFit to organise skipping workshops to help children build resilience and growth mindset.

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Case Studies

If you are looking for evidence of how beneficial Active Learning can be, take a look at the case studies below:

• Read about the positive effect exercise has the learning power of children.
• Read about the impact of adopting the Daily Mile. 
• Read about the impact of physical activity on SAT results at Syddall School.
• Learn how the Creating Active Schools Framework helps to promote physical and mental wellbeing in primary school children.

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For more information

Please contact:

Claire Mansfield