Target Games - Week 4

Stage 1 - Phase one

Equipment

Marker cones
1 ball per pair of students
Objects to throw
A variety of targets
Obstacles to create barriers

Download the Target Games - Week 4 activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Overarm throw

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the overarm throw.

Success criteria.

Eyes are focused on target area throughout the throw.
Stand side-on to target area.
Throwing arm moves in a downward and backward arc.
Steps towards target area with foot opposite throwing arm.
Hips then shoulders rotate forward.
Throwing arm follows through, down and across the body.

Explicit teaching of the overarm throw

About the skill

The overarm throw is a manipulative skill frequently used in many sports, such as cricket, softball and baseball. The action is also used in athletics with the javelin, with the overhead serve and smash in tennis, volleyball and badminton and passes in netball and basketball.

Model the skill

Introduce students to the components of the overarm throw by modelling and explaining the movements needed. Say to students:

- Look at your target.
- Point to the target (with your non-throwing arm).
- Stand side-on.
- Step forward and throw.
- Follow through, down and across your body with your throwing arm.
- Swing your arm down and back as you prepare to throw.
- Step, throw and follow-through down and across your body.

Fast start activity card

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback

Equipment: 8 markers (to set out playing area), 2 markers and 1 ball per pair of students.

How to play: Students play in pairs to throw a ball at a target and run to collect the ball once thrown.

Place one marker at the starting point and the second ‘target marker’ at a distance that provides an appropriate level of throwing challenge.
Students throw the ball at their marker for their partner to chase using a side gallop and return it.
Students rotate thrower and collector after each turn.

Skill development games

Hit the target - Playing for Life Activity Card

FMS focus activity - Hit the target

Skill focus: Overarm throw

Equipment: A variety of targets (such as 2-litre (or larger) plastic bottles with a little sand in the bottom, cricket wickets or buckets) and objects to throw (softballs, beanbags, tennis balls, soccer balls – 2 per player)

How to play: Targets are set up away from a throwing line. Players score points by throwing, kicking or rolling a ball at the targets.

Players throw, roll or kick a ball to hit or land in targets.
Each player has a set number of throws (e.g. 2).
Play is stopped to re-position targets that have been knocked over.

FMS consolidation activity - Frogs and lily pads

FMS: Vertical jump

Equipment: A 10m x 10m square marked out by 4 cones (the pond), hoops to be used as lily pads.

How to play: Players continuously jump from lily pad to lily pad using a two foot take-off and landing technique.

Randomly distribute the hoops inside the pond, making sure they are not too far away from each other (i.e. jumping distance).
Players jump from lily pad to lily pad and see how many they can land on in a given amount of time (e.g. 60 seconds).
If there is more than one frog on the lily pad, it will sink. If a player jumps onto a lily pad with another player already on it, the original player must immediately find another lily pad to jump onto.
Players may jump into the pond as well as onto the lily pads.

Frogs and lily pads - Playing for Life Activity Card

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Throlf

Equipment:

A range of 5–6 targets, set up at different heights over a course (indoor or outdoor)
Small bean bags or hacky sacks, one per player, or any other suitable object that ‘stops where it drops’ (scrunched-up paper and tape makes a useful ‘ball’)
Objects to create obstacles and barriers, such as towels, gym mats or benches
A numbered flag or card for each ‘hole’

How to play: As in golf, a course with ‘holes’ is established. Players move around the course attempting to reach the target in the least number of throws.

Establish the course and spread the players out on it.
Players throw from a start line (‘tee’) next to each target.
The next shot is taken from where their bean bag (or similar) lands.
Encourgae students to move from target to target on the 'throlf' course using the hop.