PE

[mw14]

Hi Home Edcators, could you let me know how you teach PE in a home education environment? Do you do traditional activities, or modified ones? Grateful for your input.

Hi mw14

We don't do PE as a separate subject at all, however my children take part in several activities through choice. Dd who is 11 goes swimming, skating, trampolining and to a play session at an adventure playground with the HE group each week. She goes out on her bike quite often. There is a HE drama and dance group starting next week, so I assume their will be some movement in that too. There are also lots of one off sessions we go to, such as canoeing, climbing, skiing, biking etc which usually happen every couple of weeks or so (more in the summer). We go to a lot of camps, where she gets a lot of walking done in the summer. Dd also goes to the physio's at the local hospital as she has a problem with her leg muscles being too tight (a hereditary problem) so she has exercises to do each day as well.

I don't 'teach' PE at all.
We have fun doing lots of activities instead!
We go swimming -with our local HE group and as a family. We go for long walks. We take advantage of not having to stick to school holidays and have cheap breaks away-and run on the beach and swim in the sea, go surfing and explore rock pools.
Together we our local group we go swimming, bowling, ice skating, and we play rugby most months. We often go together to an indoor soft play area. I organise a monthly meeting where there is always a physical activity. So far we have done, grass sledging, the longest zip wire in the country, several high wire activities, rock climbing, abseiling, swimming, archery, raft building and orienteering. My children have done sailing courses, we have a weeks holiday with a local home ed crowd, which is based around kayaking and canoeing.
My daughters do dance classes and go to Scout Explorers where they do various physical activities.
The world is a home educated child's classroom-they can do whatever physical activity they choose-it is sometimes limited by cash flow-I couldn't afford to pay for dance classes and riding lessons so my children chose to stick with dance classes. But by far the most activities we do are with the home ed crowd-both nationally and locally. You should see how long they play together-children and young people of all ages at various home ed camps and gatherings. I have seen games of Football/British Bulldog/Water Ballon Volleyball and 'Rachet Screwdriver' go on for hours!
The choices are endless.
Hope that helps.

eh?

the obvious advantage of them not being at school is that they don't often have to sit still if they don't want to

and consequently, they run around all the time. if you get a bunch of HE kids together they generally start some sort of game involving running around even more.

oh god and the all day football...

why do you ask mw14?