Active Playground Support
Active Playtimes is designed to assist schools in providing safe, structured and fun activities during break times. The aim is to engage children, introducing them to new and exciting games through active opportunities during the school day.
Energise your morning playtime with Fit For Sport's Active Playground Support!
Fit For Sport's Active Playtimes offering is designed to assist schools in providing safe, structured, fun activities. The aim is to engage children, introducing them to new and exciting games through active opportunities during playtimes throughout the school day. Our inclusive school services split the playground into zones, offering different intensity activities to engage a range of interests and abilities.
Our Active Playtimes Benefits include:
- Increase activity opportunities for children by 300+ minutes of activity each week
- Provide an engaging environment that's inclusive for for all children
- See a 75% reduction in playtime incidents and accidents
- Improved concentration levels after playtimes
Get up and move for your morning playtime and engage your children with our Active Playtime Sessions! Register your interest in this service using the form below!
As an alternative to having our Fit For Sport team delivering Active Playgrounds, we can also provide training to your school staff members! See how this works below:
In Person Training
Following the most up-to-date COVID-19 guidelines, our Fit For Sport training experts will visit your school and will lead you through a comprehensive workshop to upskill and build confidence in playground staff to delivery inclusive, active and enjoyable physical activity for all children in the playground setting. Here are the types of skills and knowledge your staff can build through our training:
- Understanding health and safety in the playground
- Behaviour management techniques in the playground
- Understand how to structure and zone playground activities
- Engaging children in physical activity
- Low / Medium / High intensity playground games and practical activity
Online Training
This online training will involve a 2-2.5 hour interactive workshop where our Fit For Sport training experts will lead you through a range of bespoke learning modules. The Active & COVID Safe Playgrounds training provides schools and school staff with the skills and confidence to create and lead FUN, safe, inclusive and varied physical activities in the playground. The bespoke training workshop helps schools to activate the playground at playtime and lunchtime in order to help children achieve their 60 minutes of physical activity each day, reduce incidents and accidents and engage everybody in inclusive physical activity.
Supporting Materials include:
- Digital copies of learning materials to use again and again
- How to create an Active Playground Manual
- Activity cards to compliment learning
Register your interest in active playground training for your school in the form below!
Click here to find out more information about our active playground training