Target Games - Week 3

Stage 1 - Phase one

Equipment

Marker cones
Tape to mark playing area
Boccia balls: 13 balls: 1 jack, 6 red and 6 blue
Tennis balls (1 per pair)
Large round balls (1 per pair)

Download the Target 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 overarm throw.

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:

Explore the skip by asking students to:

use different distances between steps
keep feet low
spring to gain height
use different arm positions.

Students use existing playground markings as tracks for skipping. Encourage students to move along these tracks, looking in the direction of the track.

FMS focus activity - Pick some spots, join the dots

Equipment: 4 marker cones, music (optional).

Skill focus: Skip

How to play: Players identify a set number of spots (spatial placements) around the room, then link or sequence the various spots by skipping.

Players walk around the room and identify and name 4 spots (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4).
Teacher calls out a sequence (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 3).
Players then link the spots called using skipping.

Pick some spots, join the dots - Playing for Life Activity Card

Snakes alive - Playing for Life Activity Card

FMS consolidation activity - Snakes alive

Skill focus: Rolling the ball for accuracy

Equipment:

Cones to separate groups
One softball or medium-sized ball per team (snake head)
One ball per player (e.g. tennis ball (body of snake)
Tape or cones to mark the minimum throw line

How to play: The first ball rolled becomes the head of the snake. Players deliver one ball at a time, aiming to place each ball behind the previous one. The aim is to form the longest snake. opponents’ balls to deny access to the target. Play in groups of 4.

Each team plays the first ball on a signal.
If the first ball strays to another team’s area, the ball is played again.
The second ball is played on a signal, and so on for the remainder of the balls.
To ensure the last ball is a meaningful throw, a line is placed in front of each team and the ball must go beyond the line for the ball to count – otherwise every team will finish with a python!
Alternatively, set a maximum length for the snake (e.g. 4 metres).

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Boccia

Equipment:

Any suitable indoor or outdoor playing area.
Choose suitable balls if an indoor surface is used.
Choose dimension to suit your situation
Playing area marked as shown
13 balls: 1 jack, 6 red and 6 blue (Boccia balls or alternative – bean bags, paper and tape balls, Koosh balls)

How to play: Pronounced ‘botch‑ya’. A target game requiring players to lob as many of their balls as close to a target ball as possible. Boccia is a modified version of the game Bocce, which was founded in the Roman Empire during ancient times. Many cultures have since taken the game and evolved it into their own versions. Boccia was developed for wheelchair users and is a competitive Paralympic sport.

The red team throws thetarget ball (called a ‘jack’) anywhere onto the ‘valid area’.
The side throwing the jack also plays the first coloured ball.
The opposite side then plays their first coloured ball into court, then the teams take turns for a nominated number of bowls or until everyone has had a bowl.
If the jack is thrown or knocked out of court, it is placed on the cross and play continues.
A tie-breaker is used if scores are level at the end. The jack ball is placed on the cross and sides toss a coin to determine the order of play.