The Cambridge Primary School Association allocated some money to each class to spend on indoor games to get students moving during wet lunches and avoid use of computers and screens.The most popular were:

• Twister
• Table Top Tennis

Other activities that get students moving in small spaces include:

• Energisers
• Student Leaders favourite classroom games

Many outdoor games can be modified or replicated indoors. Try out the below ideas:

• Down Ball - Ravenswood Heights Primary School uses masking tape in classrooms to mark out playing courts.

• Dodge Ball - St Josephs Catholic School Queenstown play this in the hall.

• Indoor Soccer and Smack Ball - Port Sorell Primary are a 'Technology Free Lunch Break' school so offer activities like these in the hall and other larger break out areas.

• Knee Volley Ball - Norwood Primary School play this game in classrooms. This modified game uses the same rules as traditional volley ball but students use their knees instead of hands. An added rule (to ensure everyone gets a go) is that all team members must knee the ball before it is kneed across the line.

St Josephs Catholic School Queenstown  have a Covered Outdoor Learning Area (COLA) which can be used when it’s raining. Here students are given loose parts  to explore themselves. There’s lots of blankets, boxes, tables, croquet, ball toss, pipes and other things that the students can use how they wish.

Miandetta Primary School has a  teacher who takes “Dance Club” in the school hall. The teacher uses the interactive whiteboard demonstrating dances. Some kids are on the stage leading the others and there is time for free-style dancing at the end.
They have also incorporated some “old time” partner dances as well.

At Rokeby Primary School the Upper Primary classes have grid type mats with different colours.

They play this game as a “Brain break” or in wet weather.

The instructions for the game are:

• There are 5 players at a time and a “caller”.
• Each player finds a line. Each line will have 5 colours. It is similar to Twister in that the caller tells the players which colour grid to be in. The last player to be in that colour is out and the game continues until there is a winner.
• The caller may call 1 colour only, a set of colours (at least one body part in each) or a combination that has to be performed.
• The winner becomes the next caller and a new set of 5 students are called.
• The game is designed to be fast so that students are not standing around for too long.

The students love both and end up in fits of laughter!

• Intra school soccer tournaments - At St Josephs Catholic School Queenstown the SRC council run the soccer tournament. Teams are divided up according to year level.

• Local Football Club running skill sessions - At Glen Huon Primary School the school connects with the local football team (Huonville Lions)  and their players often do football skills with students at lunchtime.

• Non-Contact Gaelic Football, Touch Rugby and Ultimate Kingball - At Woodbridge School these games are played in the following ways:                                                                                                                                     Non-Contact Gaelic Football: this is a great inclusive game that students of various ages and abilities love to play. It incorporates aspects of Aussie rules football as well as soccer and touch rugby.Touch Rugby: always a school favourite especially doing the rugby championship in September each year. Ultimate Kingball: a Woodbridge School original, designed to get all students involved. Part dodgeball, part capture the flag with a bit of multiplayer gaming style thrown in.

At Strahan Primary School students are able to ride their bikes/scooters in their lunch break.

Students at Glen Huon Primary School are starting the Jump Rope for Heart program. The students will be skipping during lunch and recess times.

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St Josephs Catholic School Queenstown, Miandetta Primary School and Bicheno Primary School all use fun, screen-based activities to keep students moving during breaks. Screen-based activities shouldn't replace traditional physical activities but are a good way to mix wet days up!

Schools' favourite screen-based moving activities are:

• Go Noodle
• Just Dance clips
• Cosmic Kids Yoga