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SCHOOL YOGA PROJECT
School Kids Meditating

Yoga, mindfulness and meditation.

 Our programs are designed specifically for primary schools, focusing on gentle exercises, breathing techniques, mindfulness activities, and relaxation. It's a great way to help kids develop their flexibility, balance, concentration, and provide them with essential skills to manage all that life has to offer. All done in a fun and engaging way that we think your students would really enjoy.

What we offer for schools in Torbay

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  • Weekly yoga classes in your school with any year group, 1-5 classes in a day

  • Wellbeing Days/ Whole-School PSHE Days

 

Young people need yoga

Ofsted requires every school to actively promote and evaluate students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development. Yoga classes support SMSC education by encouraging students to explore and reflect on life purpose, cause and effect, resilience, obstacles, relationships, feelings and emotions.

Yoga is taught in many schools across the UK as

  • Part of the PE curriculum

  • Part of PHSE curriculum

  • An elective in an enrichment programme

  • A lunch time or after-school club activity

  • An intervention to maximise the achievement of disadvantaged students

Benefits of yoga

  • Develops strength, flexibility and stamina

  • Reduces tension, stress and anxiety

  • Raises self-esteem and promotes self-efficacy – Improves motivation

  • Develops clarity, focus and concentration

  • Creates awareness of emotional responses

  • Encourages self-management of behaviour

  • Promotes social, mental and emotional health

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Teenagers who stress about doing well in their GCSE exams are likely to get lower results than peers who remain calmer, research has found. Source BBC News.

During the yoga sessions the focus is on

  • Improving flexibility

  • Improving coordination and balance, which also helps concentration (and consequently behaviour)

  • Strengthening muscles and bones, which improves posture and breathing (and consequently learning)

  • Increasing self-awareness, confidence and self-esteem

  • Relaxation and calming.

Further information

Nina suggests 30 minutes with Key Stage 1 pupils, 45 minutes with Key Stage 2 pupils and 45-60 minutes with Key Stages 3 and 4.

 

The classes are taught in school, as part of PE and PSHE or extra-curricular, taught by a qualified school and yoga teacher and have further added benefits for the school.

Nina can set up Breakfast or after school club yoga sessions so no admin for you.

  • Meets criteria for SEAL, PE Outcomes, Healthy Schools & Every Child Matters.

  • Enriches PE and PSHE curriculum subjects.

  • Can be combined with other curriculum areas, such as Literacy and RE.

  • Suitable cover for PPA time.

 

Investment depends on location,
please enquire.

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