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Spin Results
Twenty kid-safe exercises with reps already loaded. Spin on the gym screen, do what it says, spin again. Built for PE lessons, brain breaks and rainy-day recess.
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Children move more when the movement is a game. A twenty-minute circuit written on the whiteboard is a list of chores; the same circuit chosen by a wheel one exercise at a time is a series of small surprises, and the difference in effort is visible from the first spin. The wheel also removes the teacher from the decision. Nobody groans at you for choosing burpees; the wheel chose burpees, and a student pressed the button. That small shift changes the tone of a lesson, especially with the middle-years classes who are starting to decide whether they are "sporty" or not.
There is a fitness argument as well. Random ordering means children do not settle into a routine where they save energy for the hard bit at the end, and mixing cardio (jumping jacks, high knees), strength (squats, push-ups), locomotion (bear crawls, crab walks) and balance (single-leg stands, tree pose) in an unpredictable order is broadly what a good primary movement programme looks like anyway. The wheel simply enforces the variety without you having to plan it.
Every exercise on the wheel is bodyweight, needs no equipment and can be shown in ten seconds. The cardio group is 20 jumping jacks, 20 high knees, 15 star jumps, 10 burpees, 20 mountain climbers and 30 seconds of running on the spot. The strength group is 10 squats, 8 push-ups (knees allowed), 10 lunges each leg, 10 glute bridges, a 20-second plank and a 20-second wall sit. The locomotion group is a bear crawl across the hall, a crab walk across the hall, 10 frog jumps and 15 skips with an imaginary rope. The balance and mobility group is a 15-second single-leg stand each side, 10 arm circles each way, 10 toe touches and a 20-second tree pose, which also serve as recovery slices between hard spins.
Reps are pitched at roughly seven to eleven year olds. For infants, halve the numbers and swap the plank and wall sit for shorter holds. For older students, double the reps or add time-based versions such as a 45-second plank. Keep the exercise and its reps on the same line so the wheel reads as an instruction, not a menu, and the class knows exactly what to do when the pointer stops.
The simplest use is the warm-up: three spins, everyone does all three, and you have covered a pulse raiser, a strength move and a stretch in five minutes with no planning. For a full circuit, set Spin count to eight, turn on Eliminate mode so nothing repeats, and press Spin once; the results panel lists eight exercises that you can read out as stations, or copy to a slide and project. Rotate the class every 45 seconds with a 15-second changeover and the whole thing runs itself.
As a classroom brain break, the wheel lives on a browser tab behind your slides. When attention dips, one spin, one exercise beside the desks, back to work; teachers report it lands better than a video because the class does not know what is coming. For wet-play or a rainy-day recess in the hall, put the wheel on a screen and let a student spin every ninety seconds, which turns supervision into a game. Sports day practice, after-school club warm-ups and a "spin before you sit" routine at the start of the day all work the same way.
The exercise list is deliberately conservative. Nothing on it loads the spine, nothing needs a spotter, and nothing requires equipment that could be dropped. Even so, demonstrate each move the first time it appears and give the low-impact version alongside it: step-jacks instead of jumping jacks, incline push-ups against a wall, a half lunge, a walk on the spot instead of high knees. Children with asthma, joint conditions or a cast should have a standing alternative for every spin, and a rule that nobody is out for doing the easy version keeps the wheel inclusive.
Differentiation is a matter of editing the list. Keep one wheel for lower key stage with smaller reps and no burpees, another for upper key stage, and a third for the after-school fitness club with time-based holds; the share link stores each as its own URL so you can bookmark all three. For children who use a wheelchair, replace the locomotion slices with seated arm circles, punches and overhead reaches so every spin gives them a real instruction. Water breaks belong on the wheel too; add "Water Break" once and let chance decide when it lands.
The wheel is built for the front of a hall. Open it in full screen on the gym projector, an interactive screen or a laptop on a trolley and the exercise text is readable from the far wall. On a tablet mounted at a station, small groups can spin for themselves, and the tap target is big enough for a seven-year-old in a hurry. Sound effects add a satisfying tick and chime that pull a noisy hall back to the screen; mute them for a quiet classroom brain break.
Because everything runs in the browser, there is nothing to install on a school-managed device, no account for pupils to create, and no data leaving the room. Your exercise list is saved on the device you used and comes back when you reopen the page. The share link makes the exact wheel portable, so a supply teacher, a teaching assistant running wet play or a sports leader from Year 6 can open the same twenty exercises on any device and run the session exactly as you would.