Year 1 - Physical education
Wide movements
Gymnastics: individual movements and balances
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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 create movements and balances in a variety of ways that are wide on the floor and apparatus.
Key Notes
- Move: moving and balancing in wide ways means reaching out with your arms and stretching your legs out wide.
- Move: combining wide with over and under will increase the variety of movements and balances created.
- Think: imagination enables us to perform in different wide ways, combining over and under using different body parts.
- Connect: sharing ideas and supporting others in their learning shows empathy.
- Feel: being brave to try a variety of ideas on apparatus shows self belief and a commitment to trying hard.
Vocabulary To Learn
- wide: actions we perform when our arms and legs are outstretched
- over: to cross over the top of a location
- under: to travel below or underneath a location
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils show balances instead of movements on the apparatus. Pupils perform gymnastics actions in silence to be well-behaved. Pointed toes mean lifting toes towards the knees.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: moving and balancing in wide ways means reaching out with your arms and stretching your legs out wide. Move: combining wide with over and under will increase the variety of movements and balances created.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'wide'
actions we perform when our arms and legs are outstretched.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils show balances instead of movements on the apparatus. Pupils perform gymnastics actions in silence to be well-behaved. Pointed toes mean lifting toes towards the knees. Correction: Encourage pupils to travel or change their movements, not just hold still. Pupils perform gymnastics actions in silence to show good control. Pointed toes mean pushing the toes away from the legs, making their legs look longer.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Apparatus Study Guide
- Curled movements Study Guide
- High and low on apparatus Study Guide
- High jumping Study Guide
- High movements Study Guide
- High, low, over and under Study Guide
- Link two movements together Study Guide
- Low movements Study Guide
- Narrow movements Study Guide
- The difference between wide, narrow and curled Study Guide
- Transition between wide, narrow and curled movements Study Guide
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