Activate Programme
What is Activate?
The Activate progressive and developmental exercise to music programmes takes whole classrooms of children through 3-dimensional repetitive movement activities within their personal stand-up space. Each DVD activity is to music which easily enables the tempo and rhythm in the movements of the children to be varied through changes in the music. The children are also having practice in the conscious active listening skills of ‘filtering’, ‘analysing’ and ‘responding’ as they move to the music. Their attention spans or concentration stamina also gradually increases.
THE BENEFITS
As children improve their physical fluency, observation assessments show improvements in agility, balance, co-ordination, precision and control of movements, flexibility, fitness, stamina, posture, hand/eye co-ordination, reaction time and rhythmic sense.
Increases in concentration stamina and listening skills transfer across the curriculum. Subsequently, increases in confidence and self-esteem are almost always reported. A wide range of other and various competence and capability improvements are regularly reported.
The extra 15 minutes a day for 5 days a week add up to an extra 75 minutes a week of quality physical activity.
Please click on the following link for more information about Activate and to read about how some schools and sports partnerships have rolled out and used Activate to raise children’s levels of structured daily Physical Activity.
