Week 4

Movement exploration games - Side gallop

Equipment

marker cones
bean bag, ball or skittle
soft surface (grass or gym mats)
music or percussion instrument

Download the Week 4 movement exploration games - Side gallop activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Side gallop

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the side gallop.

Success criteria

Student:

Weight on the balls of the feet.
Hips and shoulders point to the front.
Head stable, eyes focused forward or in the direction of travel.

When proficient in the above, student:

Smooth rhythmical movement.
Brief period where both feet are off the ground.

Explicit teaching of the side gallop

Model the skill

Model the side gallop to students while explaining the movements needed to effectively side gallop.

Say to the students:

- Use light springing steps.
- Take off and land on the front of your foot.
- Make your body face to the front.
- Keep eyes straight ahead (or look over your shoulder.)
- Step, close, step, close.......or step, together, step, together.

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

Shapes in space - Playing for life activity card

FMS focus game - Shapes in space

FMS: Side gallop

Equipment: Music player and music

How to play: In a group, players make a basic shape in the middle of the room then side gallop clockwise. When the music stops, players move away from the basic shape. When the music starts again, players side gallop back together and form another basic shape.

Call a shape (e.g. a circle, square or rectangle).
In a group, players make the nominated shape in the middle of the room, and the music begins.
Players start side galloping clockwise while the music is playing.
When the music stops, all players run away from the shape.
Call another shape (e.g. a square).
The music starts again and players run to the middle to form the new shape.
Players begin side galloping anti-clockwise.
Repeat this pattern.

FMS consolidation activity - Frogs and lily pads

FMS: Hop

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 hop from lily pad to lily pad using a one foot take-off 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.

Frogs and lily pads - Playing for Life Activity Card

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Shapes in space

Equipment: Music

How to play: In a team, players make a basic shape in the middle of the room then skip clockwise. When the music stops, players run away from the basic shape. When the music starts again, players run back together and form another basic shape.

Call a shape (e.g. a circle, square or rectangle).
In a team, players make the nominated shape in the middle of the space, and the music begins.
Players start skipping clockwise while the music is playing.
When the music stops, all players skip away from the shape.
Call another shape (e.g. a square).
The music starts again and players skip to the middle to form the new shape.
Players begin skipping anti-clockwise.
Repeat this pattern.