Week 2

Target games - Vertical jump

Equipment

Marker cones
Tennis balls and small coloured balls or boccia balls

Download the Week 2 Target Games - Static balance activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Vertical jump

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the vertical jump.

Success criteria.

Student has:

Eyes focused forward or upward throughout the jump.
Crouches with knees bent and arms behind the body.

When proficient in above, student has:

Forceful forward and upward swing of the arms.
Legs straighten in the air.
Lands on balls of the feet and bends knees to absorb landing.
Displays a controlled landing with no more than one step in any direction.

Explicit teaching of the vertical jump

Model the skill

Model the vertical jump to students while explaining the components needed to effectively jump.

Say to the students:

Look up.
Focus your eyes on where you want to go.
Get ready to explode up high, get ready to take off.
Swing your arms back and up.
Straighten your legs when in the air.
Bend your knees on landing.
Control your body and balance yourself when landing.
Land with feet the width of your shoulders apart.

Guided practice

Demonstrate the bend and crouch starting position, using verbal cues such as “swing your arms back and up.”

Ask students to jump:

as high as they can with their head and eyes turned upwards
looking straight ahead
with their head and eyes looking down at the ground.

Activity - Marker jump

Students work in pairs with six markers. The students take turns to arrange a jumping path for their partner. Students set up their markers so that their partner jumps in different directions and over different distances. Swap roles.

Skill development games

Pick some spots, join the dots - Playing for Life Activity Card

FMS focus activity - Pick some spots, join the dots

Equipment: 4 marker cones, music (optional).

How to play: Players identify a set number of spots (spatial placements) around the room, then skip to link the various spots.

Players walk around the room to identify and name the 4 marked spots (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4).
Teacher calls out a sequence (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 3).
Players then link the spots called by jumping.
Vary the way players move between spots e.g. running, hopping and side galloping.

Corner bowls - Playing for Life Activity Card

FMS consolidation activity - Corner bowls

Skill focus: Sprint run

Equipment: 4 marker cones, target ball, 2 balls of the same colour for each player (players need different coloured balls from eachother)

How to play: 2 players work together to out-score opponents by accurately placing balls close to the target and displacing opponents’ balls to deny access to the target. Play in groups of 4.

Each player in turn rolls one ball at a time towards the target until all players have had 2 turns.
After each turn player runs around the playing area boundary.
Complete 4 games, with each player taking a turn to play first.

Modified small-sided games

Kolap

Equipment: Tennis balls, targets, marker cones.

How to play: Pairs roll balls (kolaps) to stop on a target. If the ball goes outside of the target, the player tries again from where the ball stops. The game continues until all balls are in the target. Players aim to reach a set score.

Play in pairs, and each player has 4 kolaps.
One at a time, players roll the kolap at a target.
If the kolap lands outside of the target, the player tries again from where the kolap stopped.
Continue until all kolaps are within the target.
Once one pair lands all kolaps within the target, then next pairs begin.