UPS Health and Fitness

Working on our physical and mental health and fitness, becoming stronger together!

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Welcome to the Urmston Primary School Health and Fitness Twitter page!
We will be adding exercise and fitness ideas, recipes and tips for staying healthy, both in school and at home!
You can use the hashtags found on each post, to add to the page! #

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Friday fitness! Thanks to all parents and pupils who put in a tremendous amount of effort in our first ‘parent and me’ fitness club of this year! Superb work! 😃🙌

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Fantastic work from our Year 3 and 4 football girls, playing six matches back to back at Flixton Girls’ School. Incredible effort and superb teamwork! 🙌

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SKATEBOARDING! Our newest after school club has proved to be a big hit, with upper KS2 pupils enjoying the chance to learn skateboard skills, through Coach Dan at Northern Rolling! 🛹

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Fantastic work from our Year 5 and 6 football girls, during the Let Girls Play event at Flixton Girls School! Everyone worked incredibly hard, with some superb performances, resulting in just one narrow loss over the three matches! Well done! 😃🙌

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Sid took part in his first rugby training session recently, where his coach gave him the “trainer of the week” award! Fantastic work! Well done Sid! 😃🙌

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Part 3: The pupils witnessed breakdance battles between the special guest judges, including our very own coach (and event organiser) Ede, from @breakinbees! 🐝 Massive thanks to everyone involved in the event. We had a superb day! 🙂

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Part 2: We were treated to some workshops from some of the U.K’s best breakdancers and also had a chance to try some scratching and DJ techniques, between the battle rounds! Well done to Conan, for receiving an award for the best style in the cypher rounds!

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Part 1: Rotation Dance Exchange schools breakdancing championship! We took ten dancers to battle, in what turned out to be a super competitive event, where we had several pupils make it into the top 8! 💪

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Girls’ football!
Today, we looked at incorporating accurate throw ins into our game, while focusing on making space and trying not to crowd the ball!

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Girls’ football practice! Today, we worked on accurate passing and throw ins, before a few small matches!

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Storytelling! Today in our breakdance class with ⁦@breakinbees⁩, we covered the art of storytelling through movement, weaving in all the techniques we have practiced so far!

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Friday fitness! Thanks to all the parents and pupils who came to expend some energy this morning! Super work, in a tough circuit!

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‘Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim friends and families celebrating this week. We wish you all a happy and peaceful Eid. #article14’

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Friday fitness! Our before school ‘Parent and Me’ fitness sessions have returned! Thanks to everyone who turned up, worked hard and worked out!

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En Garde! These pupils are enjoying learning about the art of fencing in our Thursday morning club before school!

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Skateboarding! Today, Year 5 had the pleasure of being the first year group at UPS to experience skateboard coaching, from Dan at Northern Rolling.
We learned about balance and coordination, not to mention resilience when things got a little wobbly!

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KS2 girls’ football skills! Today, we held the first of our after school girls’ football sessions, with a special guest coach, Emily from Flixton Girls and Meadowside.

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Noodle Pass Relay! 🤝🔥

Novel relay activity to develop teamwork and cooperation between pupils.

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FREEZE! Today in our breakdance session with Coach Ede, we worked on some freeze positions, including this rather tricky elbow handstand freeze!

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Up on Your Feet! 🤝🔥

Fun team-building activity looking at working cooperatively to get everyone up on their feet simultaneously.

Enrol on our @ISFsports course for PE Teachers today! 👇🏻

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@WannaTeachPE is out now! 📘👇🏻

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