Striking and fielding games - Week 3

Stage 1 - Phase one

Equipment

Marker cones
Tennis balls

Download the Striking and fielding games - Week 3 activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Skip

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the skip.

Success criteria.

Student shows a rhythmical step-hop.
Student lands on ball of the foot.
Student's knee of support leg bends to prepare for hop.
Student's head and trunk stable, eyes focused forward.
Student's arms relaxed and swing in opposition to legs.

Explicit teaching of the skip

About the skill

Skipping is a rhythmical locomotor skill that is basic to many children’s games. It is also fundamental to good footwork in numerous sports, such as basketball, netball and touch, and many forms of dance.

View 'The Get Skilled Get Active - Skipping video' to support the explicit teaching of the skip.

Model the skill:

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

Say to the students:

- Use light springing steps.
- Keep eyes straight ahead.
- Step, hop, step, hop.
- Take off and land on the front of your foot.
- Make sure your body faces to the front.

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback:

Place a series of markers on the ground and ask students to step to one marker and then hop to the next. As students complete the movement remind them of the action by saying ‘step right, hop; step left, hop’. Students initially look at their feet and then repeat the activity without looking at their feet. Once they are more confident, repeat the activity without markers.

Skill development games

Choosing teams

In a sport education approach, affiliation is promoted by students being a member of the same team over a period of time. It is intended that students remain in these teams for the duration of each sport program for the skill development and the modified small-sided games, so that they can develop and learn together.

Place students in equal teams, 4 teams is optimal, at the beginning of the skill development session. Strategies for forming groups can be found in the Game-based learning in sport and physical activity e-learning course.
To further promote affiliation students can decide on a team name.

FMS focus activity - Alphabets

Skill focus: Skip

Equipment: Marker cones

How to play: Players skip around a playing area before forming groups to make letters of the alphabet.

Set out the playing area (25 students = approximately 25m x 25m). How to play
Students skip around the playing area.
The teacher calls out a letter of the alphabet and students form groups of three to make the shape of that letter

Alphabets - Fast Start Activity Card

FMS Consolidation Activity - Names

Skill focus: Catch

Equipment: 1 ball per group

How to play: Players in a circle throw a ball to other players in the circle. (Play in groups of 6.)

Players on the circles can’t move.
The player throwing the ball calls out a name (the receiver) and passes the ball to that player.
If the ball is intercepted, the thrower changes places with the interceptor, or change after 4 throws.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Runners v Passers

Equipment: A suitable indoor or outdoor playing area as shown, marker cones (for running and playing area), tennis balls

How to play: A throwing team and a fielding team. The first thrower throws the ball and the entire team runs around 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!’ (4 or more per team.)

Throwers:

The ball is thrown between B and C.
All throwers attempt to skip as a group to the finish position.
If the ball goes ‘wide’ (A–B or C–D), the throw is taken again.

Fielders:

Field the ball and then move onto the infield.
The ball is passed to each fielder using a nominated throw, e.g. underarm throw.
Fielders must be at least 2 metres apart.
The last fielder to receive a pass calls ‘STOP!’
The ball is passed to the next batter.