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Year 2 - Physical education

Creation of 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 create a sequence on the apparatus with flow, including a jump, a roll and a balance, and make your own decisions about the order of the actions in the sequence pattern.

Key Notes

  • Move: quality movements and balances are performed in sequence with flow, moving from one action to the next.
  • Think: reflecting on the quality of movements and balances will improve our sequences.
  • Think: deciding on the best order to perform a sequence (jump, roll, balance) demonstrates effective decision making.
  • Connect: sharing the apparatus safely shows empathy and allows others time and space to create their sequences.
  • Feel: striving to practise, reflect and improve our sequence shows courage.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • decision making: choosing what to do.
  • quality: the good parts of the performance that suggest the movements and balances are performed correctly.
  • sequence: a combination of actions that have been added (linked) together in a particular order.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Practise makes perfect. Pupils forget the variety of shapes they can use for gymnastics skills and default to using the same basic balances and jumps in every sequence.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: quality movements and balances are performed in sequence with flow, moving from one action to the next. Think: reflecting on the quality of movements and balances will improve our sequences.

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

choosing what to do.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Practise makes perfect. Pupils forget the variety of shapes they can use for gymnastics skills and default to using the same basic balances and jumps in every sequence. Correction: Practise might not always make a performance perfect, but it will make actions and sequences improve. Pupils can work together to help use practise time to improve. Display posters or lists of shape ideas for jumps, rolls and balances.

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