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Health and Wellbeing

Wellbeing: Simple Ideas for Keeping Active

Moving a bit more each day helps your mood and your sleep as much as your body, and nobody's asking you to run a marathon.

  • 18 minutes
  • 6 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Explain how regular activity helps your mood, stress levels and sleep
  • Work towards the NHS guideline of 150 minutes of activity a week
  • Choose activity that raises your heart rate, including housework and gardening
  • Time exercise so it helps your sleep rather than keeping you awake
  • Eat to fuel activity, with carbohydrate before and protein after

About this course

Hours at a desk or on the sofa soon add up, and it's easy to put off exercise until there's time to do it properly. You don't need a gym to start.

This course explains what moving more does for you beyond weight and fitness. It helps with stress and low mood, and being active in the morning can help you sleep better that night. You'll find out how much is enough, working towards the NHS guideline of 150 minutes a week, or starting with a 10-minute walk if you're doing very little now. What counts is anything that gets your heart beating faster and leaves you a bit warm, so vigorous hoovering and digging the garden both qualify.

There's also advice on eating the right fuel, and why a gentle stroll with an elderly dog might not quite be enough.

  • For all school staff. All phases.

6 modules

Open in order

  1. Why should you move more?

    4 min

  2. Sitting is the new smoking

    2 min

  3. Exercise and sleep

    2 min

  4. Exercise and mood

    5 min

  5. How much is enough?

    3 min

  6. Fuel for exercise

    4 min