NBA Day

Inspire your class through the NBA with free resources for your school focusing on mental wellbeing, physical activity and careers.

Basketball is a global sport with incredible appeal and a reach that goes far beyond the court. The NBA’s Values, and the inspiration its star players can provide, make NBA Day a great way to help your students aim for and achieve success.

NBA Day is a suite of downloadable, flexible, curriculum-linked teaching resources to help students aged 11–14 to be more active, harness a Positive Mental Attitude, and develop the skills employers’ value through a range of NBA-inspired challenges.

Developed with practising teachers, in line with the Gatsby Benchmarks for best careers provision in schools, and featuring exclusive NBA content and videos, the resources can be delivered through a suspended timetable approach or split through timetabled lessons in PE, PSHE/Health and Wellbeing, or after school club sessions.

Click the link to register and download your free resources or read on below to find out more.

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Why deliver NBA Day?

Taking part in NBA Day enables students to:

Understand that when they are guided by the right values, they can achieve more.
Build a Positive Mental Attitude that’s optimistic, resilient and focused around a growth mindset.
Develop basketball skills and reflect on the personal qualities and employability skills built through sport.
Apply these ideas as they take part in an NBA Careers and Innovation Challenge that explores a wide range of careers and develops their skills of creativity, numeracy, communication, teamwork and organisation.

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Activities

NBA Day includes the following activities to engage, energise and develop your students skills. Each one has a range of flexible delivery options and all student files are editable to suit your needs.

Assembly, 15–20 mins

Sets the scene for NBA Day including an introductory video to inspire students.
Explores how the NBA’s Values shape its commercial success and positive cultural impact.
Introduces the three main activities of the NBA Day (these sessions can also be used as stand-alone lessons).
Inspires students to aim for a positive life in which they do and achieve more.
Each activity below works as a stand-alone session or sessions.

Positive Mental Attitude and Meditation

Sessions 2x 15 – 30 minutes

Explores the principles and daily habits that help to build a Positive Mental Attitude.
Helps students to identify specific actions to build their own Positive Mental Attitude.
Introduces students to mindfulness through a simple, 10-minute guided meditation.

Get in the Zone Basketball Workshop

PE Double Lesson, 90 mins

Helps students to understand how sports can develop personal qualities and skills.
Develops basketball skills, teamwork, communication, respect and more.
Combines an accessible range of basketball skills with a fun team competition.

Careers and Innovation Challenge

135 mins or split across two sessions

Helps students to reflect on their employability skills and discover inspiring careers that might be a good match.
Develops students’ skills as they work in teams to develop an innovative new clothing range, fan event or coaching/fitness app.
Guides students as they generate, assess, develop and present their ideas.

Download your resources

Please only register if you’re part of the pilot programme launching in the UK in 2021. We’ll open up the resources to other schools later in the year.

To download your free resources, enter your details below and the name of your school.

By registering you’ll get access to NBA Day all current resources and updates when future materials are available.