Teaching Health-Related Exercise at Key Stages 1 and 2

Filled with ready-to-use lesson plans and proven activity ideas, this book helps you deliver the health-related exercise (HRE) component of the National Curriculum effectively and safely.
Experienced physical education teachers Jo Harris and Jill Elbourn have been key players in the success of the health-related exercise movement in Britain. In this book, they share a variety of ways in which HRE can be organised and delivered within the curriculum, enabling you to determine which methods of delivery are most appropriate for your pupils.
Written for both non-specialist and specialist primary school physical education teachers, this indispensable guide addresses safety considerations for children's exercise; examines successful programmes that schools have adopted for promoting exercise among their pupils; present ideas that use simple, readily available equipment; provides detailed lesson examples that address the key issues of progression, differentiation and assessment; and describes 19 practical activities that can be incorporated into health-related PE lessons.

Jo Harris and Jill Elbourn have played a significant role in the success of the health-related exercise movement in Britain. From 1987 to 1993, they were involved in the "Health and Physical Education" national project at Loughborough University, which required them to actively promote the teaching of health-related exercise in schools across the country.

Since 1988, they have been delivering in-service training courses in health-related exercise for primary and secondary school teachers. Harris and Elbourn have also collaborated on several health-related exercise books and articles, including "Action for Heart Health," "Further Activity Ideas for Heart Health" and "Warming Up and Cooling Down."

Harris has been a lecturer in physical education at Loughborough University since 1990. Prior to that, she was involved in teacher education in Cheltenham for two years and taught physical education and health education at the secondary school level for twelve years. From 1990 to 1994, Harris was the co-director of the Loughborough Summer School Course entitled "Health Related Exercise in the National Curriculum." She holds a master's degree in physical education from Birmingham University and will earn her PhD in pedagogy, exercise and children's health in 1997.

Elbourn is a freelance educational exercise consultant and a part-time lecturer at Loughborough University and other institutions. She also has twelve years' experience teaching physical education at the secondary school level. Elbourn co-directed the Loughborough Summer School Course in "Teaching HRE in Schools" from 1990 to 1994. She holds a bachelor's degree in physical education and social administration from London University and will earn her master's degree in physical education from Loughborough University in 1999.