Week 4

Striking and fielding games - Leap

Equipment

Marker cones
Hoops
Tennis balls
Hitting tees
Bats

Download the Week 4 Striking and fielding 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 - Base to base relay

Skill focus: Leap

Equipment: Base plates (or marker cones)

How to play: For two teams to have a “relay race” against each other around all of the bases.

Set up a baseball diamond with base plates spaced at correct distances apart.
Divide players into two teams.
Place an equal number on each base.
A runner from home leaps to 1st base who tags their fellow team member who then repeats the process until the final team member reaches home plate.

FMS consolidation activity - Underarm return relay

Skill focus: Catching

Equipment: Tennis balls, marker cones

How to play: Players run to a point, return and on the way back pick up a ball and throw it underarm to the teammate next in line. This pattern continues. (Play with 4 or more).

Mark a starting line and a midway line, and place a distant marker to run around (turning point).
Form teams of 4 - 6 players.
Place the ball on the midway line.
Player 1 runs around the turning point and back towards the team, picking up the ball on the midway line.
The ball is thrown underarm to player 2, player 1 joins the end of the team.
Player 2 runs to the midway line, deposits the ball and continues to the turning point, then runs back, picks up the ball and throws it underarm to player 3.
Continue until player 1 is again at the head of the line.

Underarm return relay - Playing for Life Activity Card

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Runners v Passers

Equipment: 4 balls per player, hitting tee, marker cones, bats

How to play: A batting team and a fielding team. The first batter hits the ball and the entire team runs around the markers. The fielders gather the ball and pass it to everyone in their team. When all the fielders have touched the ball, they call out “STOP!”