Physical Activity
"Fitbods! putting the play back into the playground"

Fitbods aims to increase physical activity levels amongst school children by providing a wide range of supervised activities and games during lunchtimes. The project is designed to encourage all children, whatever their ability, to enjoy physical activity whilst gaining obvious health benefits.

An incentive scheme has been incorporated into the project, which rewards children for attending Fitbods sessions. A reward is given for every five sessions attended and after fifty sessions, children are entitled to a taster session at the National Cycling Centre.

Fitbods workshops are held for teachers, lunchtime assistants, learning mentors, classroom assistants and peer educators. These have been a great success, with all participating schools implementing Fitbods into their schools successfully and in many different ways. For example, peer educators from a secondary school, travel to their feeder primary school to supervise games and activities and "A" Level students are working with their year 7 pupils on the Fitbods project. In Primary Schools, we have year 6 pupils working with younger pupils.

Fitbods has expanded into 46 schools. The games have also been specially adapted for use in special schools. The Trafford Centre is sponsoring the project and through this sponsorship, Fitbods will be available to many more schools.