Physical activity provides students with important health, social, and cognitive benefits. It helps students understand the links between nutrition, exercise, and performance. Engaging in sports helps students develop skills like throwing, shooting, strategy, cooperation and communication. Physical activity reduces stress and allows students to reach their full potential in the classroom. It also helps students identify their strengths and weaknesses so they can focus on skill development. Overall, regular exercise in school creates a foundation for students to lead healthy lifestyles.

1. • Physical activity is important for students in understanding the
relationship between regular physical activity and health (ALS2.6)
Students then can describe links with nutrition, exercise and
performance. For instance students choose healthy foods which
help increase their performance and fitness level and lead a
healthy lifestyle in the future
• Students can identify physical factors that can influence lifestyle
choice. For example, physical activity and healthy food choices
helps decrease diabetes
• In running games, students develop spatial awareness in creating
space and positional awareness which help create skill
development

2. • Physical activity releases stress from the body allowing the
student to have emotional stability enabling them to reach their
full working capacity within the classroom. It reinforces
knowledge across the curriculum, for example the content in
science
• Allows the students to develop their fundamental movement
skills of throwing underarm/overarm, goal shooting and field
• Physical activity allows the students to think strategically with
sports. For example, the student to defend the other team. The
students think extensively; thus this skill can be used in other
curriculums

3. • Students are able to identify their goal within a game and sets
both intrinsic motivation (personal goals and also being part of a
team) and extrinsic motivation (winning the game) to achieve the
goal (PSS2.5)
• This aids in independent determination skills, allowing the student
to have a sense of achievement
• Students generally work in teams in many sports such as soccer,
cricket, basketball etc. In Stage 2 outcomes; students make
positive contributions in co-operating in group activities. Students
help their team by motivating, communicating by using verbal and
non-verbal (hand movements) and displays tolerance for their
team mates level of ability within the game

4. • Being in a team allows students to feel cohesive in a group,
making new friends and contributes positively to their cognitive
health
• Students demonstrate fun ways of being in a team; for example
using their skills in their team to help the team win
• Making new friends on a team not only aids in a students
cognitive health but also have students trusting those friends in
the future who they can rely on in social situations

5. • While playing sports, students can identify their own strengths
and limitations. Students can use skill training and circuit training
to strengthen their specific skill in the game. For example, a
student in a soccer game is proficient in scoring goals but not well
at defending. The teacher will then implement drills for the
students to practise on dribbling the ball
• The student can be proud of their abilities and developing their
abilities specifically to the game

6. • Engaging in physical activity in school gains a positive effect on
students who can apply their skills at home which is a fun and
healthy use of their free time, relive stress, develop skills and
healthy habits which leads to create healthy lifestyles in the
future