Welcome to Bodycare

Bodycare is a health promotion scheme which targets primary school children. It is run by a trained instructor within schools over a six week period. The lessons last one hour and cover a range of classroom and practical activities.

Aims

To increase the level of physical activity of young people
To improve the cardio-respiratory fitness levels of young people
To increase the awareness of importance of leading a more physically active lifestyle
To enable children to take part in after-school activities
To promote activate travel to and from school
Understand and apply the principles of nutrition
Become physically active for sustained periods of time
Lead healthier, active lives

Objectives

To encourage children to become more active away from school
To teach children the effects of exercise and how the body changes during exercise
To teach children the benefits of exercise and an active lifestyle
To teach children the importance of a balanced diet and energy balance
Students will be shown the correct ways to run, jump and skip
To be shown ways to communicate, collaborate and compete with each other
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance compare that to formants at the
beginning of the programme and demonstrate improvement at the end of the programme

Bodycare is ideally suited for children in years 5 and 6 and fits very well into the National Curriculum, meeting most of the Health-related Exercise (HRE) Learning Outcomes for Key Stage 2. These include:

Safety Issues
Exercise Effects
Health Benefits
Activity Promotion

Every child will receive this amazing work booklet

The Bodycare booklet has a total of 16 pages of work activities, fun games, puzzles, word searches and engaging cartoon characters leaving the children excited to earn all the outcomes of the program.

Over the 6 weeks the children will be set a challenge to collect as many ‘Fit Ticks’ as possible in the hope of achieving a Gold, Silver or Bronze Bodycare Award. Every time they complete 20 minutes of physical activity they will record it in their work-booklets, this will award them with a single ‘Fit Tick’!

The Bodycare Fit Tick Award will encourage the children to take up after school activities, walk to and from school and lead a more active and healthier lifestyle.

Here is what we will cover over the 6 weeks...

WEEK 1 – THEORY

Introduction to the scheme – aims / How to earn fit ticks
Identify major organs in the body and their roles
Find pulse and take resting heart rate – effects of exercise on resting heart rate
Warm-up (feel pulse afterwards)
Fitness Circuit
Find pulse and take heart rate
Identify major organs of the body
Questions – Effect of warm up / exercise

WEEK 2 – THEORY

How to measure chest expansion
Identify how the blood travels around the body and transports oxygen and carbon dioxide to different parts of the body
Questions in workbooks
Word search – in own time (or if finish work quickly)
The Heart & Lung Circuit
Explain the food record chart and ask children to complete it for Week 3

WEEK 3 – THEORY

Using food chart, identify different nutrients / food groups
Identify which foods contain which nutrients – Matching Game
Identify why we need all the nutrients
The meaning of a balanced diet
Evaluating food record sheets
Questions – Energy balance
Balancing your Energy game

WEEK 4 – THEORY

What is meant by “lifestyle”
Explain how a person’s lifestyle can consist of many things that can be both healthy and unhealthy.
Question – the benefits of an active lifestyle
Using certain equipment, children will be required to work in groups to design a playground game, with 3 rules
Demonstration of games
Write up the details of the game (if time)

WEEK 5 – PRACTICAL

Fitness Circuit
Questions – fitness improvements?
Crossword – in own time (or if finish questions quickly)
“Bodycare Quiz”
Collect work booklets

WEEK 6 – PRESENTATION

Presentation of ‘fit tick sticker’ certificates and prizes if you decide to give out prizes
Design Bodycare poster