Year 5 - Physical education
Flight
Gymnastics: flight
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Unit Summary
This unit will enable pupils to explore and perform a variety of jumps, knowing how to take off and land safely. Pupils will create sequences in groups, combining a variety of jumps and turns on apparatus with changes in level, direction, canon,unison and flow.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to experiment with moving to generate flight and create a sequence that includes three jumps and two linking movements with flow.
Key Notes
- Move: quality jumping requires bending the knees, swinging the arms and controlling the landing with extension.
- Move: linking movements together successfully involves ensuring there is consistent flow without any pauses.
- Think: knowing that flight requires the body to completely leave the floor helps us when practising our jumps.
- Feel: experimenting with a variety of jumps and not just using one idea requires integrity as we challenge ourselves.
- Connect: creating a sequence of jumps in pairs requires collaboration and trust in each other's ideas.
Vocabulary To Learn
- flight: when we are in the air, not touching the ground or any equipment
- jump: pushing off the ground or equipment with our legs to go up into the air
- quality: the good characteristics of the performance that suggest the movements and balances are performed correctly
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils forget to bend their knees on landing. Pupils bring their head to their knees when performing a tuck jump. Pupils forget to use their arms when jumping.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: quality jumping requires bending the knees, swinging the arms and controlling the landing with extension. Move: linking movements together successfully involves ensuring there is consistent flow without any pauses.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'flight'
when we are in the air, not touching the ground or any equipment.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils forget to bend their knees on landing. Pupils bring their head to their knees when performing a tuck jump. Pupils forget to use their arms when jumping. Correction: Pupils should repeatedly practise bending knees on landing. Pupils should raise their knees towards the chest in a tuck jump. Pupils should be reminded to swing their arms to give them momentum and to use their arms in the various jumps.
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