Athletics day is an annual event that features in every schools calendar. The Building Skills for Athletics Day resource was designed to support teachers to create inclusive and engaging lessons to teach the required skills of High Jump, Long Jump, Shot Put and Discus atheltic events.

The philosophy underpinning this teaching resource is Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR). This model supports student empowerment, agency and clarity on next steps whilst allowing them to be leaders in their own learning.

With an environment promoting student ownership and leadership in their learning, teachers are able to work with small clusters and individuals as they progress through the stations to develop at their pace whilst still having a progression of next steps for the rest of their class to continue with.

With the variety of nonconventional materials used by students in each station, resourcing doesn't have to rely on only traditional event equipment. This has been created from a scheme of work designed between Southland Adventist Christian School kiako and Active Southlands Made to Move team.

During the i-PhysEd 2021 Summit of webinars based on a wide range of Health and Physical Education approaches, Active Southland's Made to Move team found inspiration in content based on setting challenges for students to work towards, when playing games and physical education activities.

We were also working with schools who played some really great games and activities but the learning wasn’t extended further than the physical doing, therefore missing out on quality learning experiences.

We decided that a set of missions, with reflective questions and an understanding of why we would set this mission, needed to be created at an affordable cost to support our teachers to get more out of the Physical Education and physical activities they were doing.

WHAT ARE THE MISSION; FOR GAME BASED PE RESOURCE CARDS?​​​​​​​

The Mission; for game based PE resource is a fantastic resource for teachers looking to take their PE lessons to the next level. This resource has been designed to help teachers get more out of games they are already playing in the classroom. Students will have more opportunities to problem solve during PE and develop a variety of skills. These cards will help students think both creatively and critically before, during and after games.

The Physical Activity Leaders (PALs) is a leadership initiative designed to provide senior-primary and intermediate school students with the opportunity to develop leadership skills and apply them in the context of physical activity or sport.

The implementation of this initiative is unique to each school, according to their vision, beliefs, needs and wants.

This initiative requires an adult/teacher/teacher aide to oversee PALs.

Some of the opportunities for these students to lead activities could be, but not limited to; lunchtimes, fitness times, special school events and family days.

To support implementation of this guidance, toolkits have been developed in te reo Māori and English. These are available to all schools, kura, and English and Māori medium early learning services. A health promotion workforce based in public health units throughout the country will provide practical support to assist education settings to create healthier food environments.