Class warm-up improves physical skills

There is a big difference between physical activity and planned, structured physical education. Over a series of lessons primary pupils should be able to progressively build up the required skills and be given the chance to practice these skills in small sided games.

In extracts from a P5 lesson a class teacher from Bankhead Primary in Glasgow describes how she does a proper warm-up with her pupils to increase the heart rate and stretch the main muscle groups.