Give Your Learners a Break and Have Some Fun
Viewed and Downloaded 32,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World
🎯 Thirty movement breaks you can use in your classroom.
🎯 Find fun, engaging ways to break up your lessons and re-energise your learners.
🎯 Suitable for primary and Key Stage Three.
🎯 Stimulate learners’ minds, get them moving and help regulate their behaviour.
🎯 Create your own bank of favourite movement breaks and use them to reward and motivate your class.
I used to love using movement breaks when I was teaching.
They are a lovely punctuation point in a lesson.
A great way to reenergise and recentre learners.
Or to give them a reward for working hard.
My favourites are Zip Zap Boing and The Sun Shines On (both of which are in the resource).
Of course, we sometimes have classes where a movement break may prove counterproductive.
But even with those trickier cohorts, we can use movement breaks that don’t require learners to leave their seats.
Enough Variety to Satisfy Any Class
In Movement Breaks you’ll find thirty activities and techniques you can use with your learners.
If you teach primary, that means there’s plenty for you to try out with your class across the year.
If you teach secondary, there’s enough variety for you to find movement breaks that work for the different classes you teach.
And, in my experience, one of the best things is when your class identify their own favourites – and start regulating their behaviour as a group, so they can get what they want as a reward.
The resource is FREE to download and FREE to use.
It is published by Gershon Learning Limited under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license.
That means you can download it, freely share it and redistribute it with attribution and a link to this site, but you cannot use it for commercial purposes or create any derivatives of it.
Download Movement Breaks Today
Here’s the PDF version for you to download FREE:
What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the activities waiting for you inside Movement Breaks:
- 🏃➡️ Mirror Me
- 🏃➡️ Zip Zap Boing
- 🏃➡️ The Sun Shines On
- 🏃➡️ Image Envoys
- 🏃➡️ Shape Your Learning
- 🏃➡️ Charades Mime
- 🏃➡️ Multi-Tasking
- 🏃➡️ Puppet on a String
- 🏃➡️ Dance-Oke
- 🏃➡️ Can You Help?
- 🏃➡️ Emotions
- 🏃➡️ This is a Spoon
- 🏃➡️ Stand, Crouch, Sit
- 🏃➡️ Human Shape
- 🏃➡️ Professions
Using Movement Breaks in Your Teaching
Movement Breaks is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the different activities any way you like.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
✅ Use movement breaks as an intermission midway through your lessons.
They can be a great way to channel energy, engage learners who are struggling, and reenergise classes who are a bit listless.
✅ Turn movement breaks into rewards your class can earn for completing their work, behaving well and helping each other.
Use the resource to identify five or six movement breaks that work well with your class.
Explain that if learners meet or exceed your expectations, you’ll reward them with one of these movement breaks.
You might even say that if learners do particularly well, you’ll turn it over to them and they can decide which of the movement breaks they want to do.
✅ Assign different movement breaks to different learners. Explain that when you choose a particular movement break, the learner to whom it is assigned gets to lead the class.
(This approach relies on you first familiarising your learners with the different movement breaks. You might also want to assign each movement break to a group of learners, one of whom then gets to lead the class. This way you can slim down the number of movement breaks with which learners need to be familiar.)
P.S. You can access all my resources in one place on the free resources hub page.
