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Year 2 - Physical education

Creation of pathway sequences

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 select your own pathway and create a sequence of quality movements and balances by incorporating flow on the apparatus.

Key Notes

  • Move: performing a sequence of quality actions with flow requires moving smoothly along a selected pathway.
  • Think: selecting which over, under, along and through movements to use shows imagination when using the apparatus.
  • Connect: considering the feelings of others when suggesting improvements in their performance shows empathy.
  • Feel: practising on a range of apparatus shows a commitment to creating our best sequence for our final performances.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • practise: repeatedly doing something to improve
  • select: choosing the best options (pathways or actions) for a sequence
  • sequence: a combination of 2 or more actions that have been added (linked) together in a particular order

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • When performing sequences, some pupils perform too many actions, the sequence goes on for far too long and quality can be lost.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: performing a sequence of quality actions with flow requires moving smoothly along a selected pathway. Think: selecting which over, under, along and through movements to use shows imagination when using the apparatus.

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

repeatedly doing something to improve.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: When performing sequences, some pupils perform too many actions, the sequence goes on for far too long and quality can be lost. Correction: Remind pupils that sequences should have a beginning, a middle and an end so they can remember and repeat it. It is better to have a short, high quality sequence than a long, low quality one.

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