Year 5- Fitness

During Autumn 1, Year 5 have focused upon fitness as one of their topics in PE. In their first lesson, classes took part in a fitness circuit in which they had an individual scoresheet to record their scores. They were aiming to gain the best scores they could in various activities such as burpees, agility jump, speed bounce and target throwing. This was a baseline fitness test for the remainder of the unit.

Across the half term, Year 5 focused upon different aspects of fitness including relay races which worked different muscle groups, paired fitness challenges and designing their own HIIT workout to instruct to the class. They also participated in the bleep test, a multi-stage fitness test, in which they must continue running to work up the different levels all within the timescales of the bleeps. The full year group had incredible attitudes towards all these activities, in particular the bleep test. They were keen to challenge themselves throughout and acknowledged how this would help their fitness levels. They also completed a 9 minute Cooper Run and finished the unit by re-visiting the circuit from the beginning of the unit. In this, many children beat their original scores. A sign of increased confidence, focus, energy levels and overall fitness.

Children could discuss why we should exercise and the long & short term benefits, name muscle groups and why a balanced diet should be lifelong. A fantastic unit of work in which the children were a joy to work with!