Bursts

We are delighted to announce that Downe Manor has bought into an exciting app, BURSTS for our Early Years and Key Stage 1 children, as part of our school’s vision for creating active and healthy children.

BURSTS is a fun and simple to use Physical Education app that offers exciting, meaningful, personalised physical activities for your child to improve their physical literacy through play.

As with phonics in English or numbers in Maths, focusing on physical literacy helps children to develop critical building blocks and start to create a positive relationship with being active. This provides a foundation for them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to engage successfully in Physical Education, physical activity and sport. BURSTS supports this journey by providing opportunities for EVERY child to develop essential Fundamental Movement Skills, often referred to as ABCs (agility, balance and coordination), in an age and stage appropriate, fun way.

As the name suggests, BURSTS provides ideas for children to engage in short bursts of activity, so it might be that you only play for a short period each time. Just 10 minutes a day will make a massive difference! The adventures, challenges and games are designed to allow the child choice – just like a computer game does.

Recognition of the amount of play and key milestones of activity and progress will be celebrated both on the app and in the classroom.

If you were unable to come to BURSTS introduction parent meeting, please click here to access the presentation

Your data and privacy is important to us and as such, BURSTS is ad free, child safe, with no data shared with third parties. Click https://burstsapp.co.uk/privacy-policy/ to see our full privacy policy.