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Year 1

Health and wellbeing: the effects of exercise

6 lessons

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  • Move: physical fitness
  • Think: knowledge of healthy, active living

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This unit will teach pupils to identify changes in their heartbeat and breathing when they exercise. Pupils will begin to understand how exercise makes them feel both physically and mentally. Pupils will develop their knowledge of the positive impact exercise has on our bodies and lifestyles.

During their locomotion unit, pupils may have experienced the effects of exercise, but this unit is the first time pupils will be challenged to think about why we move and how important movement is for our bodies. Introducing words such as exercise and wellbeing will teach pupils to the different ways we can exercise through PE and physical activity. The unit will prepare pupils for all future learning through PE and encourage pupils to have a positive experience of movement as they start their journeys to understanding the impact exercise has on leading healthy, active lifestyles.

  1. Movement and exercise
  2. Effect of exercise on our heartbeat
  3. Effect of exercise on our breathing
  4. Playing games to make our heartbeat and breathing faster (warming up)
  5. Happy heart happy mind
  6. Playing together to make our heartbeat and breathing faster

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