Equipment: 8 markers (to set out playing area)  and1 additional marker per student. 

How to play:

• Each student places 1 or 2 markers out in the playing space.  

• Builders place the markers the right way up and bulldozers place them upside down.  

• Students return to their baseline (group zone) at each end of the playing area.  

• On the teacher's signal, all students race to turn the markers over to their designated side. 

• Students can only turn over one marker at a time and then return to their zone before moving to turn over another.  

• The game continues for a set time until the teacher signals the end of the round.  

• The markers are tallied for each team and then reset to commence again. 

• The aim is for each team to have as many markers as possible positioned in their favour at the end of the allocated time. 

Ladder relay

FMS focus: Sprint run

Equipment: Ladder or marker cones, relay baton or similar

How to play: Players race each other in a relay, by placing one foot in each section, to introduce running with various  stride lengths.

•  In teams, players divide and stand opposite one another. 

• Players race to the other side, placing one foot in each section. 

• Continue until all members have completed the relay.

Relay race

Skill focus: Speed, acceleration, playing as a member of a team

Equipment: Markers, relay batons for each team

Set up

Place 4 marker cones in a straight line to represent the starting line.

Place another 4 markers opposite 100 metres away to represent the change over point for runners. 

How to play: Teams race against each other in a relay. Each team member races one length before passing the baton on to the next runner, who runs and passes on to the next etc. 

• Teacher to split teams up so half are at one end of the track and the other half at the marker at the opposite end. 

• The race is finished when all members of the team have run.

• The team who finishes the race first is the winner. 

Long jump - Racing relay

Skill focus: Single and double–foot take off, single and double–foot landing 

Equipment: Marker cones, hoops or chalk to define hopping sequence 

How to play: Players race each other in a relay, practising hopping sequences along the way.  

• In teams, players divide and stand with one leg, and their opposite arm, forward. 

• Players start in with opposite arm and leg forward. 

• Players run to the other side, completing the hop sequence in a balanced position as they go. 

• Continue until all members have completed the relay. 

CHANGE IT!!

• Increase the distance. 

• Players run to the other side, completing a hop/step sequence in a balanced position as they go, e.g. hop, hop, step, step. 

• Vary the hop/step sequence (double hop, step and double step, hop, etc.)