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Year 1 - Physical education

High movements

Gymnastics: individual movements and balances

Unit Summary

This unit will introduce pupils to creating movements and balances whilst developing movement competence. Pupils will explore moving and balancing in high, low, wide, narrow and curled ways, on the floor and on apparatus. Pupils will add movements together and reflect on their ideas.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to move and balance in a variety of ways that are high.

Key Notes

  • Move: moving high requires us to move silently with control, ensuring we remain high in relation to the surface.
  • Move: high balances require our body to be still and high in relation to the surface
  • Think: movements and balances require silence, pointing the fingers and toes and balances should be held still.
  • Feel: trying lots of different high ways of moving and balancing shows self belief.
  • Connect: empathy enables us to listen to others' ideas, and to ensure all pupils are included.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • movement: the process of moving from one place to another
  • balance: maintaining a desired shape in a stationary position
  • high: to move while reaching upwards vertically from the ground or surface

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think that moving high only means traveling on tiptoes. Pupils focus on the task rather than good movements. Pupils do not hold their balances for long enough.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: moving high requires us to move silently with control, ensuring we remain high in relation to the surface. Move: high balances require our body to be still and high in relation to the surface.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'movement'

the process of moving from one place to another.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think that moving high only means traveling on tiptoes. Pupils focus on the task rather than good movements. Pupils do not hold their balances for long enough. Correction: Celebrate the different ways pupils move high. Remind pupils to move silently with control, pointing fingers and toes. Encourage pupils to hold balances for at least 3 seconds.

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