Eteach Healthy Schools

As health and fitness becomes even more important amongst primary school children we’ve teamed up with Eteach to help deliver a special healthy schools programme which is aimed at primary school kids through the medium of rugby.

The key to the programme is the use of positive role models from the London Irish team in the guise of Players, Coaches and Digger the Team Mascot to drive key messages about the importance of staying active and eating a balanced diet to live a full and healthy life.

London Irish Eteach Healthy Schools Programme Aim:

• To provide a healthy living programme with professional sporting role models, using Rugby as an activity to deliver a positive key health messages to young people in primary schools, including the importance of keeping physically active and eating healthily.

London Irish Eteach Healthy Schools Programme Objectives:

• To encourage young people to look at how their lifestyle choices affect their health in both the long and short term.
• To promote and discuss the following healthy living issues:-



• Nutrition
• The importance of keeping fit and its link to a healthy heart
• Introduction to TAG Rugby as a fun and healthy sporting activity
• To promote sport, using rugby, to introduce key messages
• To encourage young people to become physically active

Programme Structure:

Healthy Eating
The aim of the session is to discuss the different food groups based around a balanced diet, highlighting the correct number of portions to consume daily. The session finishes with a challenge to design a balanced healthy meal for a London Irish star and complete a eating diary and activity log.

Fitness
The aim of the session is to talk about the heart and lungs and what their function within the body is. The coach then discusses the effects of exercise on the body paying particular focus to the circulatory system. The class discuss ways in which we can have a positive effect through various exercises. The session contains discovery learning through fun physical experiments.

TAG Rugby Coaching
Each school receives a further 2 hours of rugby coaching delivered by London Irish Community Rugby coaches where children discover the fundamentals of Rugby. There is constant reference to the effect of different exercises on the body to reiterate the key learning messages from the Healthy Eating and Fitness lessons.

The programme culminates with a TAG festival where the children will be able to put their new found skills to the test in a fun festival.

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