Week 4

Movement exploration games - Leap

Equipment

Skipping ropes
Marker cones
Beanbags or batons
Hoops

Download the Week 4 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:

Students form groups of four. Each group has two short skipping ropes stretched out on the ground. Each student has a turn at leaping over the two ropes. Students should gradually increase the distance between the ropes to increase the distance of the leap.

Independent practice with immediate teacher feedback - River, tock, bridge:

In groups, students line up behind a marker. In front of each marker should be a ‘river’ made out of skipping ropes, a rock made out of beanbags and a bridge made out of markers that students leap over. On ‘Go’ the students follow their group around their obstacle course and then leap their way back to the starting marker. Remind students to look straight ahead, bend the knee of the take-off leg, scissor their legs in the air, stretch their arms out, lean slightly forward and land softly.

Skill development games

FMS focus activity - Ladder relay

FMS focus: Leap

Equipment: Marker cones, relay baton or similar

How to play: Players race each other in a relay, by placing one foot in each section, to leap.

In teams, players divide and stand opposite one another.
Players race to the other side, placing one foot in each section to perform a leap.
Continue until all members have completed the relay.

FMS consolidation activity - Half-moon hop

Skill Focus: Hop

Equipment: Chalk or tape, beanbags

How to play: Players throw a beanbag into each square before hopping out to retrieve them.

Students form groups of three and have a beanbag each.
Students toss the beanbag into the first square, then hop into the square, pick up the beanbag, and hop out.
On their next turn students should toss their beanbag into the second square.
Students then hop into the first square, then into the second square, pick up their beanbag, and then hop into the first square and out.
Students continue in this way, up and back each time.
In squares 4 and 5 and 8 and 9 students should land with both feet on the ground at the same time.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Stone, bridge and tree

Skill focus: Sprint run, static balance, leap

Equipment: An indoor/outdoor playing area 20 metres in length, a starting cone for each team and three cones spaced 5 metres apart.

How to play: A relay race using various static and movements skills. Play in teams of 6–8.

Teams line up behind their starting cones.
When you say ’GO!’, the first player leaps out to their first cone and forms a stone.
The second player leaps over the ‘stone’, and then leaps to the second cone to form a bridge.
The third player leaps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, and then leaps to the third cone to form a tree.
The fourth player leaps over the ‘stone’, crawls under the ‘bridge’, leaps 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 leaps to the end of the line.