Week 4

Target games - Hop

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Equipment

Marker cones
Balls and objects to throw
Variety of targets

Download the Week 4 target games - Hop task card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Hop

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the hop

Success criteria.

Student has:

Non-support leg bent and swings in rhythm with the support leg.
Head stable, eyes focused forward throughout the jump.

When proficient in above, student has:

Support leg bends on landing, then straightens to push off.
Lands and pushes off on the ball of the foot.
Arms bent and swing forward as support leg pushes off.

Explicit teaching of the hop

Model the skill

Model the hop to students while explaining the movements needed to effectively hop.
- Bend your leg to push off.
- Land on the ball of your feet.
- Find your rhythm.
- Look ahead, with head and eyes level.
- Use your arms for balance.

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback - Follow the line

A designated player tries to tag players who are hopping around a court area following the lines. Once tagged, players form ‘force fields’ for the remaining players.

Designate one player as the tagger. All other players are scattered around the court on a line.
On your signal, players begin to move around the court, following the lines.
The tagger tries to tag players by following the lines.
Once a player is tagged, they must sit down in the spot they were tagged and become a ‘force field’. This means they stop any players from getting past, except for the tagger.
‘Force fields’ cannot move.
The game continues until all players have been tagged.

Skill development games

FMS focus activity - Frogs and lily pads

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 one foot take-off and landing technique (hop).

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.

Frogs and lily pads - Playing for Life Activity Card

Hit the target - Playing for Life Activity Card

FMS consolidation activity - Hit the target

Skill focus: Overarm throw

Equipment: A variety of targets (such as 2-litre (or larger) plastic bottles with a little sand in the bottom, cricket wickets or buckets) and objects to throw (softballs, beanbags, tennis balls, soccer balls – 2 per player)

How to play: Targets are set up away from a throwing line. Players score points by throwing, kicking or rolling a ball at the targets.

Players throw, roll or kick a ball to hit or land in targets.
Each player has a set number of throws (e.g. 2).
Play is stopped to re-position targets that have been knocked over.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Throlf

Equipment:

A range of 5–6 targets, set up at different heights over a course (indoor or outdoor)
Small bean bags or hacky sacks, one per player, or any other suitable object that ‘stops where it drops’ (scrunched-up paper and tape makes a useful ‘ball’)
Objects to create obstacles and barriers, such as towels, gym mats or benches
A numbered flag or card for each ‘hole’

How to play: As in golf, a course with ‘holes’ is established. Players move around the course attempting to reach the target in the least number of throws.

Establish the course and spread the players out on it.
Players throw from a start line (‘tee’) next to each target.
The next shot is taken from where their bean bag (or similar) lands.
Encourgae students to move from target to target on the 'throlf' course using the hop.