Model the skill:

Model the sprint run to students while explaining the movements needed to effectively sprint.

Say to the students:  

• • Lift your knees high.  

  • Bring your heel close to your bottom.  

  • Look ahead.  

  • Make your feet follow an imaginary line.  

  • Don’t let your heels touch the ground.  

  • Land on the balls of your feet.  

  • Bend your elbows and swing your arms.  

  • Run tall.  

  • Bring your heels up to your bottom.

Slalom sprint

FMS focus: Sprint run

Equipment: Marker cones to identify where players are to run 

How to play: Players run slalom-style between markers in a relay race. 

• Players are organised into teams. 

• On ‘GO’, the first player in each team runs slalom-style through the cones to the end of the course. 

• When they reach the end, they call out ‘GO’ for the next player in their team to start. 

• This continues until all team members are at the other end of the course.  

CHANGE IT

• Vary the distances and angles between markers to create different curves.

• Time the activity and try to increase the speed of movement. 

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.)  

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the relay outlined below.

Target relay

Skill focus: Speed, acceleration, running and ‘hurdling’ combinations, agility and coordination  

Equipment: Marker cones, obstacles that are easy to jump over (15 - 30cm)  

How to play: Gates are set up over a course with obstacles between them at equal lengths. Players in relay teams run the distance and clear the obstacles.

• Start by running around the course from a start gate. 

• Run the course, clearing the obstacles using different stride lengths. 

•  Players remain at a constant running speed. 

• Allow players to choose their own starting gate. 

• The game finishes when time is up.

CHANGE IT

• Increase or decrease the distances between obstacles, which will vary the number of strides between obstacles. 

• Time the activity and try to increase the speed of movement.