St Peter's has developed a range of suggested physical activities who are home learning. Created especially by our sports teacher to keep children active.

1. St Peter’s School
PE & Games Activities
Name ……………………………….
Year……………..
This booklet gives you some challenges, games and exercises to keep you
improving your skills in PE and Games whilst at home. You can choose
which ones to have a go at or be creative and come up with your own
games which use sporting skills like throwing, catching, kicking, running,
shooting, passing etc.
A simple activity you can do is find a wall somewhere around the house
which is safe to throw a ball against. Try throwing the ball against the
wall and catching it before it bounces. If you want to make the challenge
easier use a bigger ball and stand about one metre away. To make the
challenge harder use a smaller ball and stand further away. How many
catches can you do without dropping the ball?

2. Each day try to complete these challenges, they’ll help you to stay active. If you want to complete
the steps challenge you’ll need a pedometer; some watches already have them.
Monday
15 Sit Ups: Lying on the floor on your back, pull yourself up with your tummy muscles and your
hands slide over your knees before you lie back down.
30 Minute Walk: It’s great if you can leave the house but if not you could take a walk around the
house or the garden.
Step Target: The walk should help you towards today’s target of 12,000 steps.
Tuesday
30 Star Jumps: Jump up and reach your arms and legs to the side in the shape of a star.
10 Minutes Climbing: Step up and down any step you can find, even the bottom step of the stairs,
keep this going for 10 minutes and you’ll certainly be feeling warm!
Step Target: You’ll work hard climbing so let’s be sensible, 10,000 steps.
Wednesday
10 Press Ups: Hands and knees on the floor, slowly lower yourself up and down.
Long Run: Find somewhere around the house or garden where it is safe to run. See if you can
manage to run for 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes or even longer!
Step Target: With all that running you should breeze your way to 13,000 steps.
Thursday
20 Knee Jumps: Put your hands out in front of you and then jump up so your knees touch your
hands. Make sure your hands stay higher than your waist.
45 Minute Walk: A long walk. If you walk at the average walking speed of 3.1 miles per hour in 45
minutes you could walk from St Peter’s School to Wicksteed Park and back!
Step Target: It’s a massive one today, 15,000 steps.
Friday
50 Skips: Use a skipping rope or similar if you have one but otherwise 50 skips on the spot will be
just as challenging.
Grab your wheels: Go for a ride, do this around the house or garden if you’re not able to go out.
You could use a scooter, skates, bike or anything else you like to ride on.
Step Target: You don’t get many steps taking a ride so 11,000 today.

3. Football
Grab yourself a football and head out to the garden. If you don’t have a football then you could
find something similar.
Level 1: Dribble the ball around the garden, keep changing direction.
Level 2: Find a bit of wall, fence or step (make sure you check it’s ok to use) and pass the ball
against it, stop the ball when it bounces back and try again.
Level 3: Keepy-Uppys, can you kick the ball up in the air more than once without the ball dropping
and hitting the floor?
Level 4: Set up a goal in the garden, you can use any 2 sensible items as goalposts. Try shooting
into the goal from different parts of the garden.
Level 5: Set up small, non-fragile, objects around the garden, how many of them can you hit/
knock over while always kicking from the exact same place.
Footgolf – 1 or more players
If you can do this in a park or open space great, if not the garden will also work. Choose a target
and a starting point. Decide how many shots it should take to get there, then try to do it in that
many shots or fewer. If you are with someone else, have a competition to see who can do it in the
fewest shots. You could play this same game with a rugby ball, tennis racket and ball or even a
Frisbee!
Basketball
For these challenges you can use any reasonably large ball that can bounce, you will need a hard
surface to play on like paving slabs or tarmac.
Level 1: Try bouncing the ball up and down using one hand 10 times, you can’t catch the ball, you
have to push it straight back down and keep it going.
Level 2: Try to do 10 again but swap hand each bounce, left, right, left, right…
Level 3: Standing still, try to bounce the ball all the way around your body and then back to the
front.
Level 4: Take your ball for a walk, can you keep dribbling it past obstacles?
Level 5: Try walking and dribbling the ball and even try to bounce the ball between your legs as
you’re walking.
Take it further: if you’re lucky enough to have a basketball or netball hoop why not try your drib-
bling skills and then shooting afterwards. Remember to shoot with a hand under the ball, not at
the sides!

4. Catching
You can choose any ball you like for these challenges. If you don’t have a ball then you could use
balled up socks or a similar item from around the house.
Level 1: Throw your ball up in the air and catch it before it hits the ground.
Level 2: Throw the ball higher, try this outside!
Level 3: Clap your hands together before you catch the ball, how many claps can you do without
dropping the ball?
Level 4: Throw the ball up, spin around on the sport, and then catch the ball.
Level 5: Close your eyes, throw the ball up and catch the ball. Can you do it with a ball in each
hand?
Tennis
It’s best to have a racket and a ball, but if you don’t have those then see what you can find. If
you’re desperate then a hardback book and balled up socks will work.
Level 1: Put the ball on your racket and go for a walk around the garden or house, see how far you
can go without dropping the ball.
Level 2: Bounce the ball up and down on your racket, you can let the ball bounce to make it easier
or flip the racket over to make it harder.
Level 3: Throw the ball up in the air and try to catch the ball on your racket.
Level 4: Try and rally a ball against a wall, outside is safer and avoid windows. Hit the ball to the
wall, let it bounce once on the way back and then try and keep it going.
Level 5: Rally with the wall again but this time don’t let it bounce. If you can do 15 or more you’re
doing very well.
Dining Table Tennis – 2 Player
Before you play this you must check that whoever’s house you are at is happy for you to play.
Make a barrier down the middle of your table, you could use tins, then try and hit a ball/socks
with your hand or a racket over the net and your opponent does the same, whoever gets it over
wins. Make the game longer by keeping score and playing first to 11.
Target Practice – 1 Player
First of all you need a target, a bucket would be perfect, a ball or bean bag but anything could
work. Lay the target on the floor and try and throw your ball into the target, if you manage it
move further away. Each time you do it move further away. If you have someone else to play with
then choose 5 places where you have to throw from, take it turns and see who can get it in from
all 5 places first.