How can Physical Education be used to promote Well-Being in Primary Education?


Emily Vaughan
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How can Physical Education be used to promote Well-Being in Primary Education?

Well-being can help children by experiencing the different areas of social, emotional and physical well-being; this would enhance their learning ways by engaging but also thriving successfully within their education. Physical education could support but promote well-being, for example children who enjoy taking part in drama or expressive arts they can express their feelings towards the topics but also on themselves but also explore relationships through different areas of the topic, another example would be a science lesson when getting taught biology it teaches children on different parts of the body and this encourages children on this basis when being taught it and linking it with themselves or others and also teachers children the nutrition and reproduction and lastly humanities to follow on ethical matters so that children can learn from other children’s cultures and even be involved. Following up on this this can be built by using their knowledge, an understanding and skills that will enable each individual to develop positive and appropriate relationships with one another but also to face different areas and make decisions they will face to live independently.

According to Evans, and Rich, (2011) ‘ how school based body pedagogies meditate, categorise and select on the basis of health discourse which has its referent a normative vision of the ideal body such as its shape, acceptable physical activity and healthy eating, this should therefore become more than just our passing concern.’ This follows by these theorists suggesting that many schools are suffering with children wanting to have the same look as they see others on social media or celebrities on the internet or television and this can cause a lot of stress to an individual to peruse themselves as something they are not.


I participated in our seminar where we had to keep active throughout and to be able to create a three set of eight routine in a group with the ideas off our lecturer. When starting this activity we has to introduce ourselves and cover the health and safety issues for the activity, this would last for around five minutes. When starting to get active and warm up we had music to help us think positively and physically to get us going. First warm up was to raise our heartbeats to have a good healthy attitude so we were walking/ running around the sports hall and shouting random commands to make us feel warmer and pump our heartbeats higher. This activity took up to ten minutes and found that is very useful for health and well- being for children in a physical way as it made me think positive thoughts on my health but such a good way in keeping fit in school and can impact on the children as they are not sitting inside a classroom and getting out and expressing themselves with one another. The main activity of this was to get into groups of five and then we were asked to create our own set of three counts of eight based on a routine. For children this activity is perfect as they are getting involved with one another but they are out and about to express the way they are and how they feel. Finally to once finishing off the routine, we had walk around and make sure we stretched before the seminar had finished, we did this by walking around but also dynamic and static stretches.  According to Foran, et al (2015) ‘being outside the school is to be really inside the world and the classroom inside the school is a lace is outside the world.’ Adding onto this quote Humberstone, (2015) adds ‘reminds us that our engagement with the outdoors is felt through our senses and this creates an emotional experience.’ By this research he says that by being outdoors can cause different emotions as children need this experience to be able to express on how they feel but also having the engagement outdoors makes them engaged and learn new aspects.

Reference  

Evans, J & Rich, E (2011). Body policies and body pedagogies: every child matters in totally pedagogised schools? Journal of Education Policy, 26(3), 361-379: Click here to access via summons
Firth, E. (2017) Social media health children’s mental health: A Review of the evidence. London: Education Policy Institute




Comments

  1. Danielle Jones23 April 2018 at 06:20

    Hi Emily, I really like how you have outlined the benefits of well-being which children can experience through the participation in physical education. Furthermore, I enjoyed reading the part which explains how you participated in the activity within the seminar, however you could have then gone on to quote secondary sources and back up you initial ideas. For example, when you stated that they activity was good for children as it can keep them fit and healthy, you could have then gone on to quote Donaldson and his links between health and well-being, as he suggests that "health and well-being Area of Learning and Experience will help them to build
    the knowledge, understanding and skills that will enable them to develop positive and appropriate relationships, deal with the di cult issues and decisions they will face and learn to live independently (Donaldson, 2015, p.45). This then backs up what you are saying with credible source.
    Additionally, I really liked how you used personal experiences within your blog and therefore you could then use this in the future when teaching.
    Overall I've enjoyed reading your work focusing on well-being and how it can be promoted through PE and I liked how you added your personal experiences throughout.

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  2. Danielle Jones23 April 2018 at 06:22

    Reference

    Donaldson’s Review of the Education Curriculum in Wales. Available at: https://www.conwyartsandmusic.org.uk/en/updates/2015-03-03-the-expressive-arts-are-proposed-as-one-of-six-areas-of-learning-and-experience-in-professor-donaldsons-review-of-the-education-curriculum-in-wales (Accessed:10/04/18)

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