Healthy Schools: Activities

What Does "Moderate Intensity" Mean?

• You will start to feel warm
  
• Your heart rate will increase
• Your breathing will be heavier, but you will still be comfortable talking

Tips for around the Home

There are lots of ways you can be active in and around the home

• Put on some music and dance
  
• Help out with some house-hold chores, e.g. make your own bed or clean up after yourself
  
• Walk to and from school/work
  
• Go for a walk with your family after dinner
  
• Go out fruit picking with your family
  
• Spend time playing active games, such as chasing, table tennis, hide-and-seek, hopscotch or skipping
  
• Limit the amount of time you spend watching TV and playing video games and be active and enjoy!

Top Tips During Free Time

Kids have lots of "free" time after school, at weekends and during school holidays. These provide ideal opportunities for you to participate in some form of physical activity:

• Invite your friends over and spend more time playing outside
  
• Arrange games in the local park or playground
  
• Make a kite with your friends and fly it together
  
• Check-out what after-school clubs are available in your area
  
• Visit your local community center or swimming pool
  
• Go for a walk, cycle or swim at the weekend
  
• Join a local summer camp or sports club
  
• Participate in several sports, not just one
  
• Remember, as part of being active, it is also important that you eat well and have plenty of sleep

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