Our Year 5 children have started gymnastics as part of their PE curriculum.
Gymnastics provides a great foundation for ALL sports and helps to develop strength, flexibility, balance, agility and coordination…all skills needed for sports like Gaelic, netball, basketball, volleyball and football. The flexibility used to do a leg split is the same flexibility a soccer player uses to save a goal. The balance and coordination a gymnast develops to jump on a balance beam is similar to the skills needed by a tennis player.
It makes you a better at maths
That’s right, maths is considered a spatial sport, which means the more children move in different ways, the more connections are made in the brain that improve spatial awareness. Kids need good spatial skills to understand mathematical equations and geometric principles. Gymnastics does just that! Gymnastics moves improve body awareness and help wire the brain for math success.
So if you see your child tumbling on your bed or doing a cartwheel across the living room then embrace it!! As they are doing their maths too!
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