Footy Fit - How Do I Get Fit?

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 & 4 HPE:

• Explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change (ACPPS034)
• Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS036)
• Discuss and interpret health information and messages in the media and internet (ACPPS039)
• Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces (ACPPS040)

Year 5 & 6 HPE:

• Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)
• Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities (ACPPS058)

Syllabus outcomes: GDS2.9, PHS2.12, PHS2.12, SLS2.13

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability

Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 HPE achievement standards: 
Students interpret health messages and discuss the influences on healthy and safe choices. They understand the benefits of being healthy and physically active. They use decision-making and problem-solving skills to select and demonstrate strategies that help them stay safe, healthy and active.

Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 HPE achievement standards: 
Students describe the key features of health-related fitness and the significance of physical activity participation to health and wellbeing. They access and interpret health information and apply decision-making and problem-solving skills to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and well-being.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge – HPE – Years 3-6

Time required: 90+ mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion. Students work independently

• Activity Pyramid – one copy per student
• Art supplies – coloured pencils, white paper
• Compare The Fitness Worksheet – one copy per student (optional)
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Device capable of creating audio-visual recordings, such as an iPad or camera
• Draft Combine Fitness Worksheet – one copy per student
• Measuring tapes – one per pair of students
• Timers – one per pair or group of students
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Tokens (from Lesson 1)
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Game Plan – one copy per student
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Stadium Scoreboard (from Lesson 1)

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Critical thinking
• Global citizenship

The Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge is a unit of work designed in collaboration with the Sydney Swans to promote health and wellbeing amongst students in years 3 to 6. It is designed to align with, and provide further depth to, the in-schools Volkswagen Footy Fit program for years 2 to 6.