Week 3

Movement exploration games - Vertical jump

Equipment

marker cones
bean bag, ball or skittle
music

Download the Week 3 Movement exploration games - Static balance task 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 with immediate teacher feedback:

Hoop hop

Place ten hoops randomly in a designated area. Students jump inside the area between the hoops until the teacher calls a number. The students then jump to a hoop. When they are in the hoop students form a group of the size called by the teacher.

Skill development games

Playing for life activity card - Frogs and lily pads

FMS focus activity - Frogs and lily pads

FMS focus: Vertical jump

Equipment: A 10m x 10m square marked out by 4 cones (the pond), hoops to be used as lily pads

How to play: Players continuously jump from lily pad to lily pad using a two‑foot takeoff and landing technique.

Randomly distribute the hoops inside the pond, making sure they are not too far away from each other (i.e. jumping distance).
Players jump from lily pad to lily pad and see how many they can land on in a given amount of time (e.g. 60 seconds).
If there is more than one frog on the lily pad, it will sink. If a player jumps onto a lily pad with another player already on it, the original player must immediately find another lily pad to jump onto.
Players may jump into the pond as well as onto the lily pads.

FMS consolidation activity - Nose and toe tag

FMS focus: Static balance

Equipment: Marker cones for playing area, 3 bibs for taggers

How to play: Three taggers try to tag other players, who must hold their nose and toes if tagged.

When you say ’GO!’, 3 taggers try to tag other players.
Once tagged, a player must hold the toes of their left foot with their right hand.
To become free, they must touch their nose with their free hand and hold for 5 seconds.

Nose and toe tag

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Stone, bridge and tree relay

Skill focus: Balance, vertical jump and sprint run

Equipment: Music, designated playing area

How to play: A relay race using various static and movements skills.

Teams of 6–8 players line up behind their starting cones.
When you say ’GO!’, the first player runs out to their first cone and forms a stone.
The second player jumps over the ‘stone’, and then runs to the second cone to form a bridge.
The third player jumps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, and then runs to the third cone to form a tree.
The fourth player jumps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, runs around the ‘tree’ and back to take the place of the ‘stone’. The ‘stone’ takes the place of the ‘bridge’. The‘bridge’ then takes the place of the ‘tree’, who then runs to the end of the line.
The game finishes when all players have had a turn at each of the positions.