Year 5 - Physical education
Jumping and turning
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 include turns in your jumps to create flight and use these ideas to create a sequence that includes two turning jumps and three travelling movements with flow.
Key Notes
- Move: quality turning jumps require bending the knees, swinging the arms and controlling the landing with extension.
- Move: a turning jump involves jumping into the air and rotating our body around a vertical axis while airborne.
- Think: knowing how to accurately identify strengths and developments in our partner's jumps improves their performance.
- Feel: creating a range of turning jumps and challenging ourselves to develop our ideas requires integrity.
- Connect: helping our partner to ensure their landing is safe when creating turning jumps involves trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- extension: stretched and pointed fingers and toes that extend outwards from the body
- jump: pushing off the ground or equipment with our legs to go up into the air
- turning: changing the direction your body is facing by rotating the body around a vertical axis
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils struggle to jump high enough to turn due to a weak push off. Pupils are wobbly and unbalanced when turning. Pupils turn too much or too little.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: quality turning jumps require bending the knees, swinging the arms and controlling the landing with extension. Move: a turning jump involves jumping into the air and rotating our body around a vertical axis while airborne.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'extension'
stretched and pointed fingers and toes that extend outwards from the body.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils struggle to jump high enough to turn due to a weak push off. Pupils are wobbly and unbalanced when turning. Pupils turn too much or too little. Correction: Emphasise bending the knees and pushing through the balls of the feet. Pupils should practise engaging their core muscles to help them turn with control. Make sure pupils focus on rotating from the shoulders and hips not just the arms.
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