How can it help with your school day?

Physical therapy

﻿Hello there, my name is Sophie Brazier. I'm a children's physiotherapist. Thank you for joining me today for our lesson. So we're in unit six and this is lesson four, and we're looking at endurance. And today in this lesson, we'll look at how it can help your school day. So we'll be looking at activity later where you need some rope because we're going to be jumping forwards and backwards over a line. So it doesn't have to be right. It could be something else. It could be a skipping rope or a hose pipe, or you could draw a line using chalk if you're outside. So you might need some help from a parent or carer if you need to get that. And then once you are ready, we can make a start on today's lesson. I just like to give you a little message from our team. We as therapists have tried to think of the best way to continue to support children, young people and their families. So we will be exploring topic areas that we regularly provide advice and support on across all ages and abilities. Each lesson will have ideas and activities that can be carried out either at home or in school. And any information I'm giving you is to be used alongside any specific strategies or resources that may have been given to you by your child's school, or perhaps a therapist. So if you have got any questions or you need help tailoring this to their needs, then please contact your local therapy service. So let's begin by looking at why is endurance important? So endurance can contribute to your overall health. Building your endurance can improve not only your physical body, but also your mind. And you may then have more energy which can help with everyday activities without tiring so quickly. This will also then help with concentration, which is good for learning at school. And remember, it can also be fun to exercise and build your endurance. So let's think about a how can this help me at school? So I'd like you to think about whole day at school, from waking until you go to bed. I'd like you to make a list of all the activities you may do in the day. So not just at school, but from when you get up until you go to bed, and remember that endurance can even help with moving around school. So you might not even realise it, but actually just walking and getting from building to building or even getting to school and coming home from school, that can all use energy. And it also helps when you are sat at a desk for lessons and homework. So you need to think about pacing yourself in certain activities. And this is quite an important point. So you might think you have lots of energy to race around on the playground, but then do you feel tired in lessen sometimes? So it's about balancing your energy and conserving your energy for the tasks that you need. And as you build up your endurance, hopefully you'll be able to manage those things better. So now I'd like you to complete this activity of jumping forwards and backwards over a line. So you're going to use a rope or a hose pipe, or you can draw a line using chalk if you're outside and then you're going to place or draw the line in front of you. And then you're going to start with both feet together, bend your knees and jump forwards over the line, try to land on both feet. And it's important that you bend your knees, then jump backwards over the line. So as a starter, repeat 10 times, and then you can go up to 20 if you can. So if you watch my demonstration, then if you pause the video, you can have a go yourself. And then you can rejoin where we're looking at the activity in further detail. So now I'm going to demonstrate the activity of jumping forwards and backwards over line. So you can use whatever line you want. I am using a skipping rope on the floor. So if you're outside, you might want to draw it with some chalk or there might be something that's aligned on the floor already. So you can be creative with what you use. So what you are going to do, is you're going to stand with two feet to get distance apart, you're going to bend your knees and then you're going to jump forward, then you're going to jump back. So you're going to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. So to begin with, I'd like you to try 10 times and then have a arrest, and then maybe twenty. So if you pause the video now and get that a go, and then you can rejoin me afterwards. So let's think about this activity a little bit more. When you were doing it, did you begin to feel out of breath? So you could either make it easier or harder, so if to make it easier, do it for less time, and to make it harder, do it for a bit longer, if you're able. And you could try and add in more. So you could do jumping sideways over the line. So you could do some patterns as well. So you could do forwards and backwards side to side, or you can make a shape, or you could do a different combination that you could make up. So you can have some fun with that. So if you pause the video, have a think about those options and then you can have a go yourself and then rejoin me afterwards. How did he get on with the lesson today? I hope you enjoyed yourself. So now we've reached the end of our lesson and I'd like to thank you for joining me. So please join me next time, where we will be continuing on the topic of endurance and we will be moving on to lesson five. So all that leaves me to say now is take care, have a great rest of your day, and I will see you soon, goodbye.

How can it help with your school day?

How can it help with your school day?

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