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Sock 'n' Swim - swimming activity and competition

Resources: swimming pool, Sport Relief Socks (download your order form here)

  • Whole class or School
  • Students get into teams
  • Race against each other wearing Sport Relief Socks
  • Students could make a league table to put up on the wall
  • Pay to play
  • Pay to watch

Crazy Golf - competition activity to develop accuracy and coordination

Resources: boxes, buckets, old toilet roll holders, golf clubs, golf balls

  • Indoor
  • Outdoor (if it’s not too rainy!)
  • Small Group
  • The first challenge is for students to form teams to make their own golf holes using old boxes and toilet rolls
  • Hold a competition for the most creative end piece
  • Students then put together their golf course in the playground or hall
  • Compete in teams to see who can finish the course first
  • Pay to play
  • Pay to watch

Sport Relief Quiz - team activity to develop knowledge about sport

Resources: the Sport Relief Quiz, pens

  • Whole Class
  • Indoor
  • Everyone can rise to the challenge in the Sport Relief Quiz.
  • You can create your own or use ours, which is full of interesting sporty facts
  • Get students into small groups which is great for developing team skills
  • It’s fun and interesting so your students can learn and raise money at the same time
  • A great filler for a wet break
    Or
  • Take it one step further and get students into teams to put together their own sporty quiz – they could raise money by holding their own quiz at lunch or for parents after school.
  • Pay to play
  • Sell stuff

Cheer-a-mile - cheerleading activity useful for gymnastics and coordination

Resources: pom poms optional

  • Whole Class or School
  • Indoor
  • Show students how to make the letters
  • M – legs apart and arms in a V pointing downwards
  • I - both arms together, palms inward
  • L – both arms out to left or right with palms together
  • E- facing sideways with both arms out one above the other and one leg raised
  • Practise the movements and then ask the students to make up a Sport relief cheer
  • We will make some students smile
  • Because we can make a mile
  • Walking, jogging, running too
  • We will make a mile for you
  • M-I-L-E
  • Pay to play
  • Pay to watch

The Sport Relief school cheer could be performed at assembly, for parents or at the Sport Relief fundraising event.

Longest pass - football activity to develop distance in passing

Resources: Football pitch and balls

  • Whole Class
  • Small Group
  • Outdoor
  • Form into small groups with a football each
  • Make students aware of the distances on the pitch 6m x18m box, half way
  • Groups kick the ball one at a time trying to get the ball as far as they can
  • When all the group have kicked the ball, students estimate the distance, record it and then try again
  • First group to kick the ball a mile wins
  • Pay to play

Mile on a Machine - competitive endurance activity

Resources: Concept 2 rowing machines, Trickster exercise bikes or similar

  • Whole Class
  • Small groups depending on number of machines
  • Indoor
  • Form into pairs
  • Pairs challenge each other in this activity
  • Make sure students are appropriately warmed up
  • See who can row or cycle the mile (half a mile each) the fastest
  • Pay to play

Footy team mile challenge - football fitness activity for out of school hours club;

  • Small groups or whole team
  • Outdoor

Resources: Football pitch and footballs

  • Measure the football pitch (approximately 80 -90m).
  • Ask the squad to run 4 lengths of the pitch each.
  • With a squad of 15 this should add up to about 3 miles.
  • Pay to play

Squad shoot - shooting activity for any out of school hours sports club

Resources: Appropriate targets and balls (at least one each)

  • Whole Class
  • Small Group
  • Indoor
  • Outdoor
  • Arrange a number of goals appropriate to the sport and have a shooting marathon
  • The challenge is to see how many goals can be scored in 30 minutes.
  • This could also be combined with running if the targets are all spaced at 20m intervals and players have to run from one target to the other.
  • Pay to play

Mile marathon - for students interested in endurance running at an out of school hours club

Resources: Running track or marked area

  • Whole Team
  • Outdoor
  • Athletes pick their longest training distance to help with endurance
  • This distance should be run an appropriate number of times in a 45 minute training session.
  • Calculate the total distance.The target should be at least 15 miles for a squad of 20 (1 mile = 3¾ laps of a running track
  • Add up all the distances
  • Finish with a mile race with half the team running clockwise and half the team running anti-clockwise on different lanes on the track
  • Get athletes to shout the distance completed at 1 lap, 2 laps, 3 laps and a mile
  • Pay to play

Dodgeball - competitive coordination activity

Resources: large sponge ball

  • Whole class
  • Indoor
  • Students get into two teams and line up on opposite sides of a centre line
  • Taking turns, players throw a sponge ball between teams at the opposing players
  • Once a player is touched by the ball, the player is eliminated
  • If a player manages to catch a ball in the air, the thrower is eliminated
  • The first team to eliminate their opposition wins!

Teams of students can pay to challenge their friends to a dodgeball match, with everyone else paying to watch

  • Pay to play
  • Pay to watch

Footy fantastic - football activity

  • Whole Class
  • Small Group
  • Indoor
  • Outdoor

Resources: Appropriate targets and balls (at least one each)

  • Set up three skill areas:
    • Dribbling through a curvy slalom
    • Shooting with or without goalkeepers
    • Passing through targets or a certain number of times
  • Devise a points system and declare a winner
  • This could be adapted for any sport
  • Pay to play

Sport Relief Festival

Use a selection of these ideas to hold a whole day festival of sport in your school. During your event you could sell homemade healthy snacks and smoothies to raise even more cash.

  • Pay to play
  • Pay to watch
  • Sell stuff

The Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile

  • Extremely large groups!
  • Indoor (depending where your local mile is held)
  • Outdoor

Resources: Your local Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile

  • The ultimate Sport Relief challenge is the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile – coming to a town near you on Sunday 16th March
  • A team of students can get sponsored to do one, three, or even six Miles with friends and family running alongside or cheering them on at the finish
  • Find your nearest Mile at sportrelief.com/themile
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  • Whole Class
  • Small Group
  • Indoor
  • Outdoor
  • Pay to play
  • Pay to watch
  • Sell Stuff