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Year 1 - Physical education

Locomotion: can you create a range of movements?

Remote learning: locomotion

Unit Summary

The unit will increase pupils' motor competence when running and jumping. Pupils will show self-belief as they explore different ways of moving and balancing, and linking these together.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to create a range of different movements to travel across a space.

Key Notes

  • Move: travelling across and through space using a range of movement ideas requires control.
  • Think: creating a range of ideas for moving our body requires imagination.
  • Feel: when racing, self-belief enables us to keep trying and never give up.
  • Connect: racing fairly ensures everyone enjoys the competition.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • movement: changing your body's position or place
  • imagination: the ability to create ideas or pictures in your mind of things that are not real or present
  • self-belief: having confidence in your own abilities and decisions

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Movement using established methods of travel is the best way to get from A to B.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: travelling across and through space using a range of movement ideas requires control. Think: creating a range of ideas for moving our body requires imagination.

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

changing your body's position or place.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Movement using established methods of travel is the best way to get from A to B. Correction: Everyone moves differently and some people may be more successful and find more joy moving in a different way to others.

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