Year 7 - Physical education
Vaulting with control and creativity
Gymnastics: body control and paired sequences
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This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Unit Summary
This unit will explore core gymnastics skills both individually and in combination. Pupils will develop their stability whilst holding their own body position and when supporting a partner. They will learn how to give appropriate feedback to others on posture and the execution of short sequences.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to vault with control and creativity.
Key Notes
- Move: when vaulting, your push off needs to be strong and explosive to drive the body upwards.
- Move: when landing keep your arms out to the side or slightly in front to help with balance and control.
- Think: a faster run-up generates more power and height, providing extra time to complete more creative vaults.
- Feel: running fast at the springboard can be scary, but it leads to success, a sense of achievement and a better vault
- Connect: supporting others to build confidence in attempting the vault will also help you develop your own confidence.
Vocabulary To Learn
- vault: an activity in gymnastics where you run towards a springboard and jump on to or over a vaulting table performing various movements before landing on a mat
- lannding: touching the ground after performing a skill e.g. jump or dismount
- box top: a piece of apparatus used for vaulting with a flat or slightly rounded surface to jump over or on to
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils fear running at speed to jump on to the springboard or are reluctant to jump on to a vault/box top. Pupils have poor technique on the springboard. Pupils fear straddling the box.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: when vaulting, your push off needs to be strong and explosive to drive the body upwards. Move: when landing keep your arms out to the side or slightly in front to help with balance and control.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'vault'
an activity in gymnastics where you run towards a springboard and jump on to or over a vaulting table performing various movements before landing on a mat.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils fear running at speed to jump on to the springboard or are reluctant to jump on to a vault/box top. Pupils have poor technique on the springboard. Pupils fear straddling the box. Correction: Build confidence by breaking the skill down. Practise without the box top or with a lower box gradually increasing height. Develop good foot positioning on the springboard before adding in the box top. Pupils could straddle on to the box first.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Basic flight using jumps and turns Study Guide
- Building a group routine Study Guide
- Creating sequences with locomotion, rotation and balance Study Guide
- Different ways to move Study Guide
- Evaluating and refining sequences Study Guide
- Locomotion and partner work Study Guide
- Performing and supporting the performance of others Study Guide
- Point and patch balances Study Guide
- Reviewing, refining and improving aesthetic performance using feedback Study Guide
- Rotation and control Study Guide
- Using apparatus to aid flight Study Guide
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