In living and learning we have been thinking about the physical and mental benefits to our health of being physically active.
We were surprised to learn that it is recommended that we should be active for one hour per day. We thought about our favourite ways of being active and made them into a word cloud:
Then we made a list of all the times that we are active across a week and added them up. The highest weekly active minutes recorded was a fantastic 21 hours!
We were surprised by how quickly walking/cycling to and from school, wake up shake up, break and lunchtime added up! We reviewed what the biggest ‘contributors’ were to our active minutes and found that playing at school and ‘playing out’ after school were often the biggest chunk.
Help at home: discuss with your child how you make sure you stay active to look after your physical and mental health. You could also think about if there are any new ways of being active you would like to try together.