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These video resources contain short activity ideas to use with your children. They are designed to provide a variety of ideas you can try out, and vary from warm-up activities and concentration games to maths and storytelling.

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Warm-up and body countdown

Body countdown can be used as warm up before physical activity and is an active way of practising countdown, subtraction and developing coordination. Body countdown can be easily adapted for KS1 or KS2 children and to different levels of ability.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Healthy Body, Warm up, Movement, Numeracy

Warm-up and body countdown

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Healthy Body, Warm up, Movement, Numeracy

Whirl’s squares and circles activity

The perfect maths activity for LKS2. With a geometry focus on circles and squares. Why not give this activity a try today with your children?

Key stage KS2

Topic Maths, Concentration, Movement, Confidence, Numeracy

Kablam’s wellbeing check ins

A short video to demonstrate two creative activities explaining how to non-verbally "check in" with your children through your sessions to see how they are feeling. This video was created to celebrate Children's Mental Health Week (Feb 2021).

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Wellbeing, Confidence

Kablam’s making verbs come alive

In this activity you take a text that your children are studying or an article. We will then pick out the verbs and bring them to life through sound and movement.

Key stage KS2

Topic Communication, Drama, Literature, Movement, Music

Whirl’s compound words activity

A short activity, perfect for KS1 children. Use these activity ideas with your class or children to help them understand compound words.

Key stage KS1

Topic Communication, Literature, Concentration, Movement

Solids, liquids and gases

Chatter leads an activity using music and movement to explore the differences between solids, liquids, and gases. Children will explore qualities of movement related to these states of matter and change between them. There will also be a short song to learn which contains all of the key information.

Key stage KS2

Topic Movement, Performing Arts, Music, Science

Moving with your breath

Artis specialist Wizzle takes us though a calming meditation and leads the children to create their own movement piece based on breathe.

Key stage All

Topic Healthy Body, Wellbeing, Warm up, Movement, Dance

Chant: sense of rhythm and pulse internalisation

First you make your fingers click is a cleverly written chant in which there is a click, a slap, a stamp and a clap, each on a different beat of the bar. It gets children thinking about rhythm and is really useful to improve their musicality. This activity can be extended by taking the words out and doing just the actions to develop pulse internalisation and children's overall musicianship.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Warm up, Rhythm, Concentration, Confidence, Music

Clap and click: concentration and focus

Using a hand drum, teacher plays a rhythm and children clap it back. Then the skin and rim of the drum can be used and the children are asked to clap when they hear the skin and click when they hear the rim. To make the activity more challenging these can be switched round so the skin is a click and the rim a clap.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Warm up, Rhythm, Concentration, Music

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Anthony Wilkinson, Behaviour Support Worker, Parklands Primary

The arts hold the power to reflect, to motivate and to bring us to our highest possible selves. Without the arts we are but two dimensions.

Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artis Patron

Because of the arts, the learning experiences at Pakeman are much richer and the children are much happier.

Lynne Gavin, Head, Pakeman Primary

I don’t think you can really invest in anything better than the arts because that’s about how we see each other and ourselves.

Nitin Sawhney, Artis Patron

It has been great to see many of our children grow in confidence over the year.

Emily Baggot, Teacher, Wheelers Lane Primary

Artis helps us to deliver our curriculum in a way that allows the children to be really engaged. And it is absolutely fantastic to watch them do that.

Ciara Parris, Head, Links Primary

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