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Year 2 - Physical education

Completion of sequences and performance

Gymnastics: linking movements and balances

Unit Summary

This unit will challenge pupils to explore linking movements and balances together incorporating flow. Pupils will create and perform sequences on apparatus focussing on jumps, rolls and balances. Pupils will reflect on how to link movements and balances while travelling along a variety of pathways.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to perform, evaluate and improve your sequence on the apparatus.

Key Notes

  • Move: performing a quality sequence of movements and balances requires flow, control and pointed fingers and toes.
  • Think: observing others and making suggestions as to how to improve a sequence demonstrates evaluation and imagination.
  • Connect: considering the feelings of others when helping them develop and improve their performance shows empathy.
  • Feel: striving to improve your performance and believing in yourself shows courage and will lead to success.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • performance: the way you present your sequence in front of an audience, how confident you are, and how smooth your actions are
  • evaluate: judging the quality of something you have done or seen
  • success: when you consistently practise and improve your performance

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Success means performing actions perfectly. Pupils land a jump, and their hands touch the floor.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: performing a quality sequence of movements and balances requires flow, control and pointed fingers and toes. Think: observing others and making suggestions as to how to improve a sequence demonstrates evaluation and imagination.

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

the way you present your sequence in front of an audience, how confident you are, and how smooth your actions are.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Success means performing actions perfectly. Pupils land a jump, and their hands touch the floor. Correction: Success refers to progress relative to a starting point. Any improvements to actions should be viewed as successful. Remind pupils to land with straight backs (not rounded) to help them 'land and stand' when they land a jump.

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