Week 3

Movement exploration games - Leap

Equipment

Beanbags
Marker cones
Hula hoops
Balls

Download the Week 3 Movement exploration games - Leap task card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Leap

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the leap.

Success criteria.

Student has:

Eyes focused forward throughout the leap.
Knee of take-off leg bends.
Trunk leans slightly forward.

When proficient in above, student has:

Legs straighten during flight.
Arms held in opposition to the legs.
Lands on ball of the foot and bends knee to absorb landing.

Explicit teaching of the leap

Model the skill:

Model the leap to students while explaining the movements needed to effectively leap:

- Look straight ahead.
- Bend knee to take off.
- Scissor legs.
- Stretch your arms out.
- Lean into the leap.
- Land softly.

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback:

Place two long ropes along the ground at an angle to each other one metre apart at the narrow end and three metres apart at the wide end.
Students begin at the narrow end of the two ropes and perform a crocodile leap.
They attempt to leap across the river to avoid the ‘crocodiles’, progressively moving towards the wider parts of the river.
Students leap over the creek using the following techniques:
- leap and land on left leg;
- leap and land on right leg;
- leap with hands by your side;
- leap using your arms.
Ask questions such as:
- What parts of the body help you to leap? What role do your arms play? How does your arm position change your leap? (arms should be stretched out, opposite arm to leg).
- What are the hard parts about this skill? What are the easy parts of this skill? When would you use the leap?

Skill development games

FMS focus activity - Hoop leap

FMS Focus: Leap

Equipment: Hoops

How to play: Players leap between hoops before forming a group.

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

FMS consolidation activity - Zigzag chase

FMS focus: Dodge

Equipment: A large playing area

How to play: Students sprint around the outside of a circle, dodging in and out of line markers.

Students form a large circle.
Each student is given a number: one, two or three.
Teacher calls “On your marks …. set….” and then one of the numbers.
Students with this number sprint around the outside of the circle in an anticlockwise direction, dodge in and out of line markers and then move back to their starting place.
Students can only overtake other runners by dodging them on the outside.
Players not running should jog on the spot and not interfere with the runners as they go by.
Repeat until all students have had several turns at performing the dodge.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Jailbird

Skill focus: Run, dodge and teamwork.

Equipment: 6 balls, marker cones to define large playing area, 2 sets of bibs or sashes

How to play: Players run into the opposing team’s half to retrieve a ball and return it to their scoreline. If tagged in the opposition’s half, players must go to ‘jail’ and wait to be rescued by team-mates. The team who collects all six balls or has the most balls on their scoreline when ‘Time!’ is called, is declared the winner. Play in teams of eight or more.

Teams start in their half of the playing area.
Three balls are placed behind each team’s scoreline.
Players run into the opposing team’s half in an attempt to retrieve a ball.
If successful in retrieving a ball, the player runs back to place the ball on their scoreline (players with a ball can’t be tagged).
If a player is tagged in the opposition’s half, they must go to jail.
A player can be rescued from jail with a ‘high five’ from a team-mate. Once released from jail, both players must walk back to their own half around the outside of the area, before rejoining the game.
The winning team is the one who collects all six balls or has the most balls when ‘Time!’ is called