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Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Healthy Active Learning

 HAL

Our Facilitator has been in a few times, and in 2024, I have the privilege of working one-on-one with Nikki. Here are some of the discussions and examples we have been given.

Activities

Invasion games and moving into space 

Touch and Tag moving and passing

Good passes call name


Using Uneven teams - like piggy in the middle 4 on 2

Try to get 5 passes or an interception 


Helicopter - Pads made using colour cones. Call a colour those students have ot move to a different colour. Taggers with a small pool noodle tagging below the hips.


Modifying 


Add Alt Delete is one phrase you can use to modify a game:

  • What can we add, alter or delete
  • Such as removing a ball, altering the type of ball or adding an extra ball


SPACE is another phrase

  • Supportive Schedule and Use of Time
  • Pedagogy That Engages
  • Alternative and Authentic Assessment
  • Climate of Care
  • Education for Everyone

Integration of Literacy and Maths into PE

  • Using movement to help with learning in math
    • Scrabble - collect letters to spell the specific word
    • Countdown - consonants and vowels, 1st team get back 3 letters, 2nd team… - 2 letters: after each relay. Which team has the longest word, which team has the most points from word score
    • Fraction Tag - make a whole using the fractions
    • Number Bonds - What makes 10, 20 or Even Factors of..
    • Place Value Relay
    • Positional Freeze: in on, under, beside, opposite, adjacent, parallel third …
  • Using movement to help with literacy 
    • Alphabet Hop -
    • Pop, Pop in the Pot - remake the sentence
    • Charades - Action Verbs, Positional Language,
    • Poetry - create movement to go along with text
    • Digraph Dodgeball
We also watched a video of the action and reflected on how we could all improve, taking stock of our own performance. When working with students, as teachers, we know our students and who will need more specific instructions and those who will see the problems.

Healthy Active Learning

 HAL Our Facilitator has been in a few times, and in 2024, I have the privilege of working one-on-one with Nikki. Here are some of the discu...