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Keeping Students Active
While they Learn from Home
During COVID-19 restrictions, it’s important that students stay active and get moving
During times of COVID-19 restrictions, when families often spend more time at home and many students are learning remotely, it is important for students to remain active and moving.
The Active Schools initiative aims to ensure that all Victorian students have the skills, confidence and motivation to be active for life.
Whether it be indoors, in the backyard or the local park, students should spend 15 minutes, four times a day getting active.
There are many benefits to being active, including improved wellbeing and concentration.
Get Active Victoria has a range of activities families can do at home to stay active, including:
- COVIDSafe activities, such as pilates and chair exercises
- physical challenges, such as juggling and hula hooping
- dance classes.
The Department’s FUSE website also has a range of online physical activity resources for schools to use during remote learning, including:
- self-directed activities for students from Sports Australia
- the Kick it with Victory online football and exercise program with Melbourne Victory
- yoga for children in the early years
- recorded daily 30-minute physical activity videos, that can be done in the living room.
When children participate in regular physical activity, it boosts their physical and mental health and improves academic performance.
Physical activity throughout the day also improves concentration, and the ability to retain information and solve problems.
There are many benefits to being active and getting your move on, but a lot of children aren’t moving enough, particularly while learning from home. 15 minutes 4 times a day is all it takes.
To help support your children to stay active while learning from home, families can access a range of free COVIDSafe ideas to stay active and games through Get Active Victoria.
Families should remember that whatever gets children moving, gets them active.
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/Pages/activeschools.aspx
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