Be Healthy

- Mental Health - relaxes and alleviates stress.
- Physical Health - Improves cardio vascular fitness as well as gross and fine motor skills.
- It is physical education that can engage children that are not usually interested in sports!

Enjoy and Achieve

- The skills taught can be seen as the epitome of focused play.
- Teaching the importance of personal space, working one on one and in groups.
- The children will gain confidence as they pick up new skills.
- Inspires children to aim for new goals.
- Can be used as an incentive/reward for good conduct.

The Primary Framework

Through step-by-step learning the children will be subconsciously learning logical thinking and problem solving, both of which are invaluable for the numeracy initiative.

Cross Curricular Potential

- The circus days directly involve physical education and drama.
- They also indirectly involve many other subjects. They can, for example, be used by teachers for demonstrating:

• The concept of gravity in Science.
• Patterns and logical thinking in Mathematics.
• The different types of entertainment in History.

Circus skills are a great "brain gym" activity teaching pupils to use both sides of their brains.

Make a Positive Contribution

- Encourages peer support, inclusion and engagement to a high level.
- Each child will find something that they can perform well and help their peers with.
- Helps build confidence and promotes anti bullying and good behaviour.
- Juggling clubs can be started at the school which could engage parents and the wider community and become part of an out of hours learning scheme.