Great Start to Week One and Two!
Introducing Mindfulness and Life Skills & Directing Focus. Children also experienced new sports they haven’t played before.
Week 1 : Intro in to Mindfulness in sport
In this session we covered Mindfulness which was all about helping children to be aware of the little things like our body’s senses and how when we are taking part in sports and activity it allows us to forget what’s...
Week 3: Handling Pressure
Week 3 was all about taking the children out of their comfort zones. We did this through a series of sports skills and games based activities to see how they felt when having to do a task e.g. throwing and...
Week 8: Practising Thankfulness
“Thank You”, two words that don’t cost and when said with meaning and emotion can make the person receiving them feel good. In today’s session we practised this through the “Mine Game”...
Week 9: Managing your Body
This week we focused on body language and how posture can determine how we feel and act. We discussed with the children how by changing your body posture could change your mood. In sport we used footballer Christiano Ronaldo as...
Week 10: Thinking Ahead
We all do it, some more than others. Thinking ahead! The children were given activities for this week’s theme around planning and why it is important. One of the activities involved the children having to think about a route that...
Week 11: Dealing with Change
When things happen or change unexpectedly from one way to another, we discussed how we have to adapt or be flexible to the situations that arise at both home and school such as moving school and having to make new...
Mindfulness in Sport
Practicing mindfulness is so important for us all, it helps us to stay connected to the present which can be so difficult , we are either thinking in the past or in the future. It improve focus, concentration and allows...
