Primary Extracurricular Activities

The Yoga Club

The practice of the Yoga Club is based on the integrated and holistic approach to health and well being of the children. It is a programme encompassing physical fitness, social and self-awareness. Yoga promotes a way of learning that comes naturally to children. In words of Ms Tunde, the Yoga Club leader: ‘We are all different in abilities and in ages but we all try to cooperate, listen to each other and enjoy the movements’.
 
Yoga is fun for children and they are encouraged to invent yoga poses, play yoga games as well as colour Mandalas. Together with Ms Tunde, students work on flexibility, balance and correct breathing. One of the essential benefits of doing Yoga is that children learn ways of relaxing.
 
In the spring term, the Yoga Club plans to make a mini yoga booklet including pictures of the traditional and their exciting invented poses.

ICS Marathon Club

Every Tuesday, rain or shine, the students in the ICS Marathon club lace up their shoes, stretch out their muscles and run!  The goal of ICS runners is to run for a certain amount of time and to never stop.  During their first day, the running time was only five minutes and in the words of the students who joined the club it was “easy peasy.”  Each time the Marathon club met, they added five more minutes to their running time.  The task became more and more challenging, but as Ms Ruth, the club leader, reports ‘We never gave up! During our final day together this term, we ran a total of 30 minutes with a five minute speed walking warm up and a five minute cool down.  It was tough, but we cooperated together and motivated each other to keep running’.

Thanks to the fact that running takes place in Regent’s Park students not only discovered every corner of the beautiful green space but also had a blast while keeping fit. Ms Ruth confesses that she was extremely impressed to see some of the students using their park break time to develop their endurance and develop their long distance running.  She hopes that she will see students running in the actual London Marathon one day.

ICS Aerobics Club

The word aerobic means “with oxygen” and at ICS we include energetic dancing to culminate in a lot of fun! ICS Aerobics Club promotes a range of dancing and moving activities through which children learn to develop strength, flexibility, agility and endurance needed for general well-being.

The club leader, Ms Roxanne, is enthusiastic to teach students the importance of exercise, drinking a healthy amount of water and refuelling their bodies with healthy food. Club sessions are made up of three parts: Warm Up, Stretches, Exercises and Cool Down Stretches with breaks in between.

In the first few weeks the children practise different exercises and then towards the end of the course they work individually or in small groups and create their own aerobics routine. These they use to teach the other children.
ICS aerobics club is a great success. It enhances students’ motor and cognitive skills in fun and spontaneous way.