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PEHealthy lives and outdoor challenge20 min★ difficulty

Leading a healthy, active life

PE lessons are only a small slice of the week — genuine fitness and enjoyment come from staying active well beyond the school gates.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Health and fitness: Take part in competitive sports and activities outside school through community links or sports clubs, and lead healthy, active lives

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Take part in competitive sports and activities outside school through community links or sports clubs, and lead healthy, active lives

Key learning points

  • • Guidelines for young people
  • • Community links and clubs
  • • Making it sustainable

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 14 parts to scroll through
  • 3 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

competitivesportsactivitiesoutsideschool

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Leading a healthy, active life

An English teaching video on this topic from Every Mind Matters. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Take part in competitive sports and activities outside school through community links or sports clubs, and lead healthy, active lives

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Guidelines for young people

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Guidelines for young people

UK guidance recommends young people do an average of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every day, including activities that strengthen muscles and bones on at least three days a week.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Community links and clubs

Local sports clubs, leisure centres and community groups offer coaching and competition beyond school, often across a wider range of sports than a school can provide, and help build lasting habits and friendships.

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Quick check

Part 5 of 14

Quick check

How many minutes of daily activity are recommended for young people?

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Quick check

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Quick check

What can community sports clubs offer beyond school PE?

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Making it sustainable

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 9 of 14

Learn

Making it sustainable

Activities are more likely to continue long-term if they are enjoyable and varied, fit realistically around other commitments, and involve other people for motivation and accountability, rather than being a solitary chore.

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Quick check

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Quick check

What makes an active habit more likely to last?

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Challenge round

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Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Challenge round

Part 12 of 14

Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

UK guidance recommends young people do an average of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every day, including ____ that strengthen muscles and bones on at least three days a week.

Local ____ clubs, leisure centres and community groups offer coaching and competition beyond school, often across a wider range of sports than a school can provide, and help build lasting habits and friendships.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Leading a healthy, active life

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. How many minutes of daily activity are recommended for young people?

  2. 2. What can community sports clubs offer beyond school PE?

  3. 3. What makes an active habit more likely to last?

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Article

What a warm-up is actually for

A warm-up raises the heart rate, sends more blood to the working muscles and raises muscle temperature by a couple of degrees. Warm muscle stretches further before it tears, and messages between brain and muscle travel faster, so movement is more accurate.

A good warm-up has three parts: a few minutes of easy movement, mobility that takes joints through the range the sport needs, and short bursts at close to game speed.

Long, still stretching before explosive sport can slow the muscle down. Save that kind of stretching for the cool-down.

Written for Good Learning Co.

Reading questions

  1. Explain in your own words two things a warm-up does to the body.
  2. Design a ten-minute warm-up for one sport, with times for each part.
  3. Keep a training log for three sessions: what you did, how long, and how you felt after.

  • Training log

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    Write what you did, for how long, and how your body felt afterwards.

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