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The Relentless School Nurse: New Jersey School Nurses – Make the Impossible, Possible!

Relentless School Nurse

We brought back our Friday night of celebration and learning and danced the evening away. This emphasis on positivity, alongside addressing concerns, sharing compliments, and highlighting achievements, is proving to be a more compassionate and constructive way of engaging with our school nurse community and nurturing leaders.

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Adapted Physical Education – The Call For Inclusion

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Regular physical activity in children and adolescents promotes health and fitness and helps to reduce obesity and the risk of developing chronic conditions. This recommendation from the CDC is for all students. In addition, the obesity rate for children with a disability is 38 percent higher than for children without a disability.

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New course: Physically Active Learning in the Early Years

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Containerisation The statutory and non-statutory guidance - Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, Early Inspection Framework and Reading Framework What impediments are impacting on early childhood physical inactivity and obesity? Helen Battelley is course creator and leader. Find out more about our FREE mini-course.

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Benefits of Physical Activity In Schools

PLT4M

In doing so, students are introduced to new units like functional fitness, yoga, weightlifting, dance, mindfulness, and other lifelong activities. Physical education teachers pushed to go from a traditional game and sports model to a more comprehensive fitness and wellness model.

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5 Components Of Physical Fitness

PLT4M

Achieving and maintaining a healthy body composition is important for overall health. Achieving a well-rounded program that addresses the 5 components of fitness is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Examples of aerobic exercise include running/jogging, biking, swimming , jumping rope, and even dancing.

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Unblind the Mind – Paralympian Darren Harris’ one of a kind podcast

Sports for Schools

A variety of physical activities for children is the most powerful route to helping them achieve their potential and learning ability. All physical activities are beneficial, from dance to martial arts to netball and basketball.

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Unblind the Mind – Paralympian Darren Harris’ one of a kind podcast

Sports for Schools

A variety of physical activities for children is the most powerful route to helping them achieve their potential and learning ability. All physical activities are beneficial, from dance to martial arts to netball and basketball.

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