Welcome to the Physical Education pages.
Look at the selection of Warm-up and Cool-down P.E. ideas and resources listed below,
or browse around the different P.E. sections using the bar above.

Warm-up Ideas:

• Beans Activity - A very useful (and fun!) warm-up activity.
• Pirate Ship - A fun warm-up game in which children pretend to be on board a pirate ship.
• Smugglers - A competitive warm-up game, which encourages children to steal from one another!
• Sheep Tig - A fun warm-up game which involves pretending to be sheep!
• The Video Game - An enjoyable warm up activity involving video recorder controls!
• Traffic Lights - An enjoyable warm-up based on traffic lights!
• The Washing Game - A fun warm-up game, based on washing!
• Run Through the Jungle - A fast-paced activity which asks children to perform different jungle-based actions!
• Ladders - A fun competitive, and team-based, game.
• Fish and Chips - A simple activity to help children warm up at the start of a lesson.
• Up, Down, Stop, Go! - An exciting warm-up activity.
• Front to Front - An action packed warm-up game which gets children moving and thinking.
• The Teacher Says... - A fun warm-up game which can also be used as a great classroom management techinque.
• Commando - A lively game which is great for team-building.
• The Atom Game - Encourage teamwork and collaboration with this exciting game.
• Human Bop-It! - Children love the Bop-It games, so why not play in your PE lessons!
• Catch it... Header it... - A fast-paced game which requries quick thinking.
• Dancing Transitions - A fun way of occupying children during breaks, or as warm-up and cool-down activities.
• Mission Impossible - A clever warm-up activity which children really enjoy!
• Stuck in the Mud - A classic game which is a great warm up activity, or simply play it for fun!
• Frogs Stuck in the Mud - Play the popular game of 'Stuck in the Mud' with a froggy twist!
• Team Seating - Encourage your children to work in teams using this co-operative activity.
• Cat and Mouse - A competitive warm-up game where children have to catch tails!
• Sharks and Fish - A simple game for younger children which involved repeating each others' movements and listening for commands.
• Toilet Tag - A funny game which children beg to play!
• Pasta PE - An enjoyable warm-up activity, linked to pasta!
• Jelly Fishing - A fun game which involves pretending to be characters from Spongebob Squarepants!
• Hoop! - An exciting warm-up game for younger children.
• The Mr. Man Game - Use the Mr. Men to get your children moving!
• Bumper Cars - A fun game which aims to develop spacial awareness and travelling skills.
• Sharks - An exciting warm-up game which involves trying to escape from imaginary sharks!
• The Sharks are Coming! - An active warm-up game which requires children to get into groups.
• Chains - A fun catching game, in which children form chains to catch the others!
• Dinosaur Tag - Will the dance dinosaurs or the freeze dinosaurs catch you... and will you be saved by the dinosaur officers?
• Rolling Rocks - Which team will win in this exciting game?
• Late for School! - A fun warm up activity which involves pretending to get ready for school! Includes a related cool-down activity too.
• Make a Letter - A physical activity which is useful for reinforcing phonics too!
• Summer Fun - A fun game to play in the sunshine, with children following commands as quickly as they can.
• Fruit Basket! - A very energetic game in which children have to switch places with one another.
• Three Blind Mice - An exciting warm-up game based on the popular nursery rhyme.
• Dinosaur Tag - Will the dance dinosaurs or the freeze dinosaurs catch you... and will you be saved by the dinosaur officers?
• Messy Rooms - A fast-paced game which children will love.
• Guess the Corner - A fun, active game which could be used as a warm up activity.
• The Numbers Game - Develop your pupils addition / subtraction skills in this enjoyable game.
• Cups and Saucers - A very enjoyable game which can be used as a warm-up activity.
• Run Around the Teepees - An enjoyable warm-up activity, which is played in pairs.
• Clocks - A fast-paced warm-up game which encourages use of different muscles.
• Adoration - An enjoyable warm up game which can be played as fast or as slow as you like!
• Quick Warm Ups - A long list of different warm up activities (in PDF), none of which involve equipment so they can be carried out quickly and easily. Contributed by Mr Chong Meng Lieng.
• Blackout - Can your pupils explore the area and find others by only using their sense of sound?
• Cats and Mice - A fun game which develops awareness and agility.
• Heads, Shoulders... - Use a well-known song in your PE lessons to develop understanding of body parts.

Cool-down Ideas:

• Cool Downs and Stretches - Some useful ideas for the cool down part of your lesson.
• Tiring Morning - A relaxing way to cool down at the end of a lesson.
• Do you know any more good cool-down ideas? Email them to mark@teachingideas.com, or submit them in the comments area below and I'll add them here!

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Links to other sites:

• Frank and Mike's Physical Education Page - A wonderful site, containing ideas and tips about teaching a variety of different sports. Also includes the history of each sport.
• Physical Education Resources - Lots of useful ideas and resources for teachers of primary PE.
• Kids Exercise - Keeping your kids active and fit can be hard work! Kids Exercise give you ideas and ways to keep them on the go as well as exercise and nutrition ideas!
• Playground Fun - Find out how you and your children can use Playground fun as a learning tool at home or the classroom with articles and teaching materials.

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