Must: Throw and catch with control when under limited pressure; make effective decisions when they have the ball, but take time to make them; move to find
space when they have not got the ball, when prompted and guided; follow a simple warm up routine; comment on successful passes and shots at goal; keep the
score.
Should: Throw and catch with control to keep possession and score ‘gaols’: be aware of space and use it to support team-mates and cause problems for the
opposition: know and use rules fairly to keep games going; keep possession with some success when using equipment that is not used for throwing and catching
skills; explain why it is important to warm up and cool down; say when a player has moved to help others; apply this knowledge to their own play.
Could: Play effectively with speed and precision, as members of both small and larger teams; decide quickly where and when to pass the ball, showing good
awareness of what is going on around them; vary tactics and adapt skills in response to the situation they face in a game; play a wider range of games and use a
variety of skills and equipment well; lead small groups for warm-up activities; say why simple tactics worked.
Week 1
Warm up: place a number of cones and bean bags around the play ground. Instruct children they are going to run around (not in a circle) dodging in and out of
each other and when the whilst is blown the teacher will call out a colour. The children have to find the nearest object which is that colour to them and go and
touch it before moving off and jogging around the play ground again.
Input: Ask TA or accompanying teacher/children after warm up to set up the stations. Have children follow the teacher round as they explain what to do.
Station 1: Hoops at varying distances, children to use bean bags/balls or quoits to attempt to get points by landing an object in the hoops.
Station 2: Baskets/buckets/boxes – children to use bean bags/balls etc to attempt to land an object in them
Station 3: Skittles/cones/plastic bottles with water/sand in – children to attempt to knock over skittles with objects.
Station 4: Upturned cones – children to land an object in the cone
Station 5: Chalked circles with points in them which have to have objects landed in them.
Children to rotate around the stations. Ask them to experiment with the different types of equipment at each base. They should take it in turns to throw a piece of
equipment at the target. They then need to as a group discuss which is the easiest piece of equipment to score with and why they think that.
Equipment needed: hoops, baskets/buckets/boxes, skittles (plastic cones/water bottles with sand or water in), cones, chalk, bean bags, tennis balls, foam balls,
Frisbees, different sized balls, etc.
Cool-down: Children to walk to different areas of the play ground stretching arms and necks to collect equipment. Stretches afterwards of legs and feet.
Week 2
Children to play rats and rabbits game. Children in pairs in 2 lines. One line is called rats and other rabbits. Teacher says either rats of rabbits and the line which
is called must attempt to run away to another line whilst the other groups of children chase them and attempt to tag them.
Input: recap different types of throws. Shoulder pass, underarm, chest pass,
bounce pass.
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Children to be in groups of 4. They have to use different passes to make as many passes as they can in 1 minute. Try passing at different speeds. One person
cannot hold the ball for more than 5 seconds etc.
Have a demonstration of throwing with two children. Start with chest pass. Arms down, W on back of ball, chest to chest, have arms out ready to catch, grab the
ball in (saying ‘mine’ if children find this hard), transferring weight from back to front foot, children looking at the ball.
Ask children to practise the different passes. Teacher to check pupils are throwing and catching correctly. Start with chest pass, move onto bounce, then shoulder
pass.
Play 4v1 game. 4 children in square and have to pass ball around whilst the ‘1’ attempts to intercept the ball by pre-empting what pass is going to be done.
Introduce a second defender. Rotate regularly.
Cool-down: holding a ball or piece of equipment complete different stretches using it (e.g. stretching both arms with a ball in hands).
Week 3
Warm up: follow the leader. Children to have ball for dribbling each. They will be split into pairs and one will start being ‘leader’ and the other will be follower. The
leader must move around the playground bounce-dribbling the ball at different movement speeds but so that the follower can still follow. The follower must keep
an eye on the leader because they could change the hands they are bounce-dribbling with or the speed or place in playground etc. All must keep an eye out for
each other.
Input: Ask one child to bounce a ball for the others to watch.
Key questions: How are they controlling the ball? Are they able to look up and see the situation around them? Do they have control over the ball? Are they ready
to move if needed?
Demonstrate dribbling is using the fingers to control the bounce of the ball, not the palm of the hand. Have a flexible hand and be on the tips of your toes to be
ready to move.
Children to bounce-dribble the ball around the playground keeping control. They need to move at different speeds whilst also keeping control and looking out for
other people.
Set up relay of 5 or 6 cones which children have to dribble round in a figure of 8 type movement. Have hoop at the end which children must bounce the ball in.
Children work as a relay to get through all players. To win children must be sat down/crouched and quiet. Encouraging team work and supporting team members.
Children to be in groups of 5 or 6. If in odd numbered groups then one child must go twice.
Extension: children to bounce ball X number of times in hoop/throw ball to self using three different passes, or pass ball to team and back again using shoulder
pass before bounce-dribbling back to first cone where they chest pass to next person.
Cool-down: Children in pairs and to make sure each other cools down correctly. Working from head to feet. Children to use stretches. Teacher to make sure that
all the children are cooling down correctly.
Week 4
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Warm up: Children to start at one line. They carry a bean bag. When told to ‘stop’ they must drop the bean bag where they were when the stop was called. They
then return to the line and try to beat the distance to the bean bag. Competitive element – children to work in pairs and attempt to beat bean bag each time.
Set up about 8 ‘gates’ on the playground area. Children to dribble a ball between the gates. How many can you go through in 1 minute. Children must move from
gate to gate and can’t go through the same one over and over. Competitive element – your score resets to 0 if you lose control of the ball.
Children to try and better their score. Evaluate after each minute to try and help children.
Paired work: as pairs the children should try and better their individual score. Using the throwing and catching from last week they need to move, pass, move,
pass etc to try and beat the individual scores. Children MUST keep an eye out for other people. There will be about 3 people trying to use each gate at the same
time. Competitive element – scores resent if control of the ball is lost.
Cool-down: Children to do a ‘Simon says’ type activity for cool down. Start with head and move to feet. Invite children to lead the activity. Children don’t get ‘out’
they just have the idea of ‘listening’ reinforced to them...
Week 5
Warm up: children in pairs. One child to hold a ball. They must attempt to get free by feinting, dodging etc. They then must dribble the ball using bouncing. The
partner must not tackle, but only try to stay with the person dribbling. Swap regularly.
Input: recap passes (chest, shoulder, bounce). Children to be split into threes. Two stand opposite each other using play ground lines/cones to mark a gap
between them. The third is the person in the middle. The children on the edge must attempt to pass the ball to each other whilst the person in the middle
attempts to gain possession of the ball. The person in the middle must stay in-between the two lines. Rotate positions.
Key questions: What was hard about gaining possession? What was hard about keeping possession? What passes were most effective?
Children to be split into groups of 5. Demonstrate game: hoop in the middle with an ‘exclusion zone’ around it which the 4 attacking children must not enter. The
idea is for the 4 attacking children to attempt to bounce the ball in the hoop without going into the exclusion zone. The 1 defending child can enter the exclusion
zone and should attempt to defend the hoop from the attackers.
Adopt a play-teach-play approach where the children have the opportunity to attack (and as many as possible defend) before bringing them back and questioning
them about positive tactics. They should then return to the games and try out the new tactics. All children should have defended by this point.
Tactics: dribbling ball, turning back on children who are attempting to gain possession, passing ball on if needed, standing ground.
Cool-down: children in their groups to stretch and move around slowly to collect equipment and cool their muscles down.
Week 6
Warm up: children in pairs. Partner A must run and attempt to dodge, feint and sprint to lose partner B. Partner B attempts to remain with partner A.
Input: Reminder of 4v1 game from last week.
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Game changes slightly: Hoop at one end of a ‘pitch’ there is a semi circle exclusion zone around the hoop which NO child can enter (no matter what team). The
attackers are 4 children who must attempt to get the ball from one end of the pitch to the other passing and dribbling whilst the defenders try to intercept the
ball. The attackers score by bouncing the ball in the hoop. If the ball is knocked from play or the attackers score then the game restarts with positions rotated
from the opposite end of the pitch to the hoop.
Move to 4v3 if appropriate.
Cool down: Groups of 7 (or 6) children lead the cool down using what they have learnt from each other and from the cool downs from the unit. Invite a not
particularly ‘confident’ or ‘bossy’ child to lead to gather evidence of their ability to lead a warm up or cool down.
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