PHYSICAL EDUCATION
YEAR 1
NET GAMES UNIT
SPRING TERM
ABOUT THE UNIT
In this unit children develop basic game-playing skills, in particular throwing and
catching. They play games based on net games (like tennis and badminton), and
games based on striking and fielding games (like rounders and cricket). They have an
opportunity to play one against one, one against two, and one against three. The
children improve and apply their basic skills in games. They play games that demand
simple choices and decisions on how to use space to avoid opponents keep the ball
and score points.
In all games activities, children think about how to use skills, strategies and tactics to
outwit the opposition.
VOCABULARY
In this unit children will have an
opportunity to use a range of words and
phrases, such as:
 Avoiding
 Tracking a ball
 Rolling, striking
 Overarm throw
 Bouncing, catching
 Free space, own space
 Opposition, team
 Rebound
 Aiming
 Speed, direction
 Passing, controlling, shooting
 Scoring
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RESOURCES
markers, cones, quoits, beanbags,
hoops, skipping ropes, small rackets
or bats
a variety of different sized balls that
bounce
differently,
so
that
differentiated tasks can be set
chalk
Digital camera
Video camera
Projector
coloured braids or bibs
Fundamental skills to be taught within this unit
Catch
2, Ready move for catching- with elbows bent and hands in front of the body
3, Hands move to meet the ball
Kick
2, Step forward with non-kicking foot placed near the ball (child needs to start at least 1 step away
from the ball)
Run
2, Knees bent-max right angle after you have pushed forward (during the recovery phase back leg
should be 90 degrees)
GAMES – CORNWALL UNIT 2 - YR 1
For Class Yr 1 Pupils
QCA Unit 1 Core Task 2
Pupil Challenges
Net Type Game
 The aim of the game is to score points by
sliding a beanbag or rolling a ball over your
opponent’s line.
 The game is played one against one, or two
against two.
 Set up two parallel lines, 3m to 5m apart (make
sure there are sides to the court).
 The children should position themselves on
either side of the lines, but may put their hands
into the space between.
 The opponents try to intercept the ball or
beanbag and then try to score themselves.
Net Type Game
 Can you score points by sliding a beanbag or rolling a ball over
your opponent’s line?
 Can you think where best to aim to score a point?
 Can you be ready to stop the beanbag or ball that your opponent
sends?
A
C
B
D
Introduction to the KS1 Games Units
Six units, each containing 12 progressions have been written for KS1
Games.
Y1 – Autumn, Spring, Summer.
Y2 – Autumn, Spring, Summer.
The QCA Core Tasks for KS1 have been rewritten into Pupil Challenges
and a set assigned to each unit. Each unit of work therefore, progresses to
working towards achieving these challenges.
The intention of these units and the way that they have been written is
designed to encourage use of the 4 aspects of National Curriculum P.E.
2000. 1) Acquiring and Developing Skills
2) Selecting and Applying Skills, Tactics and Compositional Ideas
3) Evaluating and Improving
4) Knowledge and Understanding of Fitness and Health
The first unit, although encompassing the 4 aspects, is very much skill
based. It encourages the pupils to move correctly, understand space and
how to roll, throw, kick and strike a ball efficiently. If a teacher is
unfamiliar with the technicalities of such skills, it is advised that they
refer back to this unit when such skills are revisited in the other units, but
perhaps not in the same way. E.g. A year 2 teacher, may just be using
units Autumn, Spring and Summer. Should they themselves require
more knowledge on the basic skills to aid their teaching, they would be
well advised to keep unit 1 handy, to refer to.
It is possible to use these units as a rolling programme in small schools,
but please be aware of younger pupils requiring knowledge in basic skill
technique, before they can progress, and be prepared to differentiate
lessons accordingly.
2, Ready move for catching- with elbows bent and hands in front of the body
3, Hands move to meet the ball
2, Step forward with non-kicking foot placed near the ball (child needs to start at least 1 step away
from the ball)
2, Knees bent-max right angle after you have pushed forward (during the recovery phase back leg
should be 90 degrees)
Year 1
Spring Term
EQUIPMENT
Net Games
Progression 1
Coned area, selection of small soft balls and some larger
balls, cones.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn:
 To revise and to improve their rolling and receiving
 To revise running on the balls of their feet
WARM UP
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ON YOUR OWN
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WITH A PARTNER
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WHOLE GROUP
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Can you run on the balls of your feet in the coned area,
changing direction and avoiding other people?
Can you stop as soon as I blow my whistle, remembering
to put your weight forward?
Can you choose a ball to roll?
Can you think what sort of ball is easiest to roll? (small is
best)
Can you roll it against a wall, fence or over a line?
Can you remember how best to roll a ball? (Opposite arm
to foot forward, let go of the ball when pointing to the
target, body low to the ground)
Can you make a goal by the fence / wall to roll against?
Can you count how many times you score a goal in 30
seconds?
Can you make the goal narrower or stand further a way
and try again? Did you beat your score?
Can you stand opposite a partner and make a goal in the
middle?
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Can you roll the ball through the goal to your partner?
Can your partner receive it? Can you remember how best
to receive it? (get down low, have your hands as a target
to receive the ball, watch (track) the ball carefully)
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ROLL TAG - 2 children are taggers with a soft ball each
and stand outside a coned circle or square. The rest of the
children stand inside the coned area. The taggers must
roll the balls to try to hit the children below the knees. If
someone is hit, they collect a ball and join the taggers.
Can everyone be out in 3 minutes?
Can you work together as taggers to get people out?
Can you avoid the balls by tracking all the balls carefully
and moving your feet?
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COOL DOWN
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Year 1
Children should be able to
 Improve their rolling and receiving
 Remember how to run on the balls of their feet.
Spring Term
EQUIPMENT
Can you tell me the best way to roll a ball?
Net Games
Progression 2
Whistle, small balls to roll, cones, skittles/ tin cans, / targets
etc
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
WARM UP
Children should learn:
 Where best to roll a ball to score a point
 Why we warm up
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IN A SMALL GROUP
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Can you move around the coned area on the balls of your
feet avoiding others, but without walking, running or
jogging?
Can you look for spaces to move into when you are
warming up?
Can you stand still and draw large circles with your arms
and hips?
Can you tell me why we warm up? (to help prepare our
bodies to safely take place in energetic games and
activities)
TOP PLAY 1 – Target Roller
Can you play this game thinking where best to roll the
ball to score a point? Can you play again and beat your
score?
Can you watch others in your group and see if you can
tell them how they may be able to roll or field better?
TOP PLAY 1 – Speedy Gonzales (like piggy in the
middle)
Can you roll the ball accurately to the other roller?
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Can you think where to roll to avoid ‘speedy’?
Can you, as Speedy, intercept (get) the ball by watching
(tracking) it carefully?
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Can you tell me what you had to do in the last game to be
able to score a point?
COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Children should be able to
 Know best where to roll a ball to score a point
 Say why we warm up
Year 1
3
Spring Term
Net Games
EQUIPMENT
Whistle, cones , small balls
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn; How best to stop a point from being scored
WARM UP
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IN SMALL GROUPS
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COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Progression
Can you play follow my leader in a group of 3, staying in
the coned area?
Can you, as leader move about in different ways avoiding
other groups, but keeping your group together?
Can you change leaders on the whistle?
Can you make small circles with your knees and ankles?
TOP PLAY 1 – Speedy Gonzales
Can you play this game again in groups of 3? Can you
remember how best to score a point (roll away from
Speedy, making sure your partner has moved to receive
the ball)
Can you, as Speedy, get the ball whilst it is rolling? What
do you need to do to be successful? (track / watch the
movement of the roller and receiver and of the ball and
get behind the ball to receive / intercept it)
Can you swap over taking it in turns to be Speedy?
TOP PLAY 1 – Roll Goal
Can you play this game making sure you take it in turns
to be the roller, goal keeper and collector?
Can you save the most shots? What do you need to do to
be successful? (track the ball)
Can you put the equipment away sensibly?
Can you tell me how best to stop a point from being
scored? (track the ball carefully and get behind it to
receive it)
Children should be able to:Know best how to stop a point from being scored
Year 1
Spring Term
Net Games
Progression 4
EQUIPMENT
Whistle, beanbags, cones.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
N.B. THIS LESSON NEEDS TO BE DONE INSIDE
WHERE BEANBAGS CAN BE SLID ACROSS THE
FLOOR.
WARM UP
Children should learn: To make different letter shapes with their bodies
 To ‘track’ the path of a bean bag
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WITH A PARTNER
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Can you move on the balls of your feet avoiding others,
but without running, jogging or walking?
On the whistle can you make the shape of the letter called
out, (or shown on a piece of card) using your whole
body? Pupils can do this standing, sitting or lying. E.g.
T, C, I, K, L, O, U, X.
Can you stretch up tall on to your toes?
Can you stand opposite your partner and slide a bean bag
to one another?
Can you watch (track) the beanbag so that you are ready
to receive it every time?
Can you tell me how best to do this? (get behind the bean
bag, get down low and have your hands ready)
How many times can you slide the beanbag to one
another in 30 seconds? Can you do it again and beat your
score?
TOP PLAY 2 – Roller ball
Can you play this game but slide a bean bag instead of
rolling a ball?
Can you track the bean bag each time and move your feet
so that your whole body is behind the bean bag?
Can you beat other teams with your score?
COOL DOWN
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Children should be able to: Make different letter shapes with their bodies
 Track the path of a bean bag
Can you tell me why it is important to track the bean bag
ALL the time?
Year 1
5
Spring Term
Net Games
EQUIPMENT
Whistle, cones, bats, small balls
Video camera, projector or laptop
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn: To practice striking a ball
 To evaluate others
Progression
WARM UP
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ON YOUR OWN
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WITH A PARTNER
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Can you hold a small soft ball in your hand as you move
in the coned area avoiding others?
Can you balance the ball on your hand as you move
around?
Can you pat the ball, using your hand as a bat, firstly on
the spot and then as you move around.
Can you pass the ball in big circles around your neck,
tummy, hips and knees
Can you choose a bat and practise hitting the ball (to head
height) in the air? How many can you do in 30 seconds?
Can you beat your record?
What do you need to do to be successful? (Shake hands
grip, steady hand, keeps the bat flat). Can you try again?
TOP PLAY 1 – Hit and Catch
 Can you play this game making sure you are in a safe
area?
 Can you count how many times you can hit the ball
without missing?
 Can the feeder remember how to throw accurately and
feed into the hoop each time?
 Can you guess where the ball will be hit and collect it
quickly?
 Can you watch each other as you hit the ball and see if
there are ways your partner could improve? (Shake hands
grip, standing sideways on, racket / bat back ready?
 Can you have another go and see if you can beat your
score?
 Could video and play back so the children can evaluate
their own performance
COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Can you tell me how successful your game was? Was
there anything that you need to improve on? E.g.
feeding the ball, hitting the ball etc
Children should be able to: Strike a ball
 Evaluate others
Year 1
Spring Term
Net Games
Progression 6
EQUIPMENT
Whistle small balls, cones, bats / rackets, hoops.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn: To practise feeding a ball / striking a ball
 To play a game with striking
WARM UP
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WITH A PARTNER
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Can you hold a small ball in your hand and play follow my
leader with a partner? On the whistle, can you swap over
leaders?
Can the leader sometimes throw the ball in the air and catch
it, and sometimes drop it to the ground and catch it? Can the
partner follow and do the same?
Can you make big circles with your arms and hips?
Can you put one leg in front of the other, bend the front leg
and stretch the back leg so that it is straight? (calf stretch)
Following on from the cool down in progression 5, when it
was discussed which skills needed practising, can you either
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Practise feeding. In pairs, can you stand opposite each
other with 2 hoops in between?
A
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B
2
Can A feed the ball underarm to bounce in hoop 2 for B to
Catch? Can B feed the ball underarm to bounce in hoop 1
for
A to catch? Can you remember how to throw accurately?
(opposite foot to arm forward, let go of ball when hand is
pointing to hoop)
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IN SMALL GROUPS
Practise striking. Can you drop feed the ball to hit it to
your partner? Can your partner catch / retrieve the ball
to roll it back to you?
Whether you practise feeding, striking or both, have 5
goes
Each and swap over.
TOP PLAY 2 – Scoring points can you play this in groups
of 4 with a striker, feeder and 2 fielders?
 Can you think how to field the ball to the hoop quickly? E.g.
depending on the skills of the players, perhaps rolling may
be quicker than throwing.
 Can you put the equipment away sensibly?
 Can you tell me where the striker needs to hit the ball to
score more points? (away from the fielders)
Children should be able to: Feed and / or strike a ball
 Play a game with striking
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COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Year 1
Spring Term
Net Games
Progression 7
EQUIPMENT
Whistle, cones, bats / rackets, small balls, hoops
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn: To recognise space and use it to their advantage
 To describe what happens to their breathing when they
are active
WARM UP
N.B. Progression 7, 8 and 9 all use TOP PLAY 2 card
Scoring points, (as in Prog 6) in which to teach the learning
objective. Please feel free to change the game for some or all
of your pupils if necessary e.g. roll or throw the ball rather
than strike it.
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IN SMALL GROUPS
COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Can you put one hand on your tummy and one hand on
your chest and tell me if you are breathing quickly or
slowly?
Can you move around the coned area, avoiding others,
and without running, jogging or walking?
Can you move as high as possible for 1 minute?
Can you stop, put one hand on your tummy and one on
your chest and tell me what has happened to your
breathing? (faster, deeper noisier)
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TOP PLAY 2 – Scoring Points
Can you set up and play this game again?
Can you organise yourselves without help?
When you are the striker can you think where you need to
hit the ball to score more points? (In to a space away
from the fielders) can you do this well?
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Can you tell me who in your group was good at hitting
/throwing / rolling the ball into a space?
Can you tell me what the fielders need to do to stop there
from being a space?
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Children should be able to: Recognise space and use it to their advantage
 Describe what happens to their breathing when they are
active
Year 1
Spring Term
EQUIPMENT
Net Games
Progression 8
Whistle, cones, bats/rackets, small balls, white boards, pens
and wipes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
WARM UP
Children should learn: To organise themselves
 How to score a game
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IN SMALL GROUPS
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COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Can you move around in the coned area on the balls of
your feet, avoiding others and as directed by the teacher?
E.g. run, skip, hop, hopscotch, side step etc etc
Can you draw large circles with your arms and small
circles with your ankles?
TOP PLAY 2 – Scoring Points
Can you organise yourselves in your group to set up this
game, collecting the right equipment and setting it out
safely?
Can you play the game and write down the score of each
person on a white board?
Can you play again, talking to each other as to how you
may beat your score? Did you beat your score?
Can you as a group put away all the equipment you used?
Can you tell me if you were happy the way your group
organised themselves and scored the game?
Children should be able to: Organise themselves
 Score a game
Year 1
Spring Term
Net Games
Progression 9
EQUIPMENT
Whistle, cones, bats/rackets, small balls, hoops.
Video camera, projector or laptop
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn: Where to stand, as a fielder to make it difficult for the
batter to score points
 To work as a team
WARM UP
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IN SMALL GROUPS
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COOL DOWN
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Can you move in the coned area avoiding others?
On the whistle can you get into groups of 4? Repeat
several times.
In your group of 4 can you play follow my leader keeping
your group together?
Can you swap leaders
Can you stretch up tall and bend down low?
TOP PLAY 2 – Scoring Points
Can you stay in your groups of 4 to set up and play
scoring points?
Can you play the game, this time thinking where it is best
for the fielders to stand to get the ball quickly once it has
been hit?
Can you tell me what you did as a fielder to make it
difficult for the batter? (covered all the spaces)
Can you play again? Were you more successful?
Could video groups and play back so that the children can
evaluate their performance
Can you put all the equipment away carefully?
Can you tell me if you worked well as a team in trying to
make it difficult for the batter to score lots of points?
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Children should be able to: Know where to stand to make it difficult for the batter to
score points
 Work as a team
Year 1
10
Spring Term
Net Games
Progression
EQUIPMENT
Whistle, cones, bean bags or small balls, white boards for
scoring if desired
Video camera, projector or laptop
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn: To score points by rolling a ball or sliding a bean bag
over their opponents line
 To evaluate the success of a game
WARM UP
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WITH A PARTNER
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Can you warm up using the heart line in your playground
or by suggesting different movements that you could do
to warm up? (could put 4 cones out in a square and ask
children to move between each cone in a different way)
Can you think how you might stretch your body?
QCA UNIT 1 CORE TASK 2 (see attached sheet)
Can you set up and play this game with a partner?
Can you play it successfully so that it is enjoyable?
Can you remember and tell me what you could do to help
you to score points? E.g. good accurate rolling or sliding,
looking for space, accurate scoring
Can you watch another pair play?
Can you tell them what they could do to improve?
Can you let another pair watch you and give you some
helpful tips?
Can you play again? Did you improve?
Could video the children in the lesson and then play it
back to them so they can discuss what progress they made
COOL DOWN
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Children should be able to: Score points by rolling a ball over their opponents line
 Evaluate the success of a game
Can you explain the rules of the game?
Year 1
Spring Term
EQUIPMENT
Net Games
Progression 11
Whistle, cones, balls, beanbags, heart line.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
WARM UP
Children should learn: To be ready to stop the bean bag or ball that their
opponent sends
 To work together WITH a partner AGAINST another pair
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IN SMALL GROUPS
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COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Can you warm up as in progression 10 either using the
heart line or using your own choice of movements?
Perhaps you could follow a triangular shaped pathway.
Can you draw small circles with your elbows and hips?
QCA UNIT I CORE TASK 2 (see attached sheet)
Can you play this game as in progression 10, but this time
in groups of 4, 2V2?
Can you and your partner work together to stop the ball /
bean bag from crossing the line?
Can you work with your partner to try to score points by
rolling the ball over the opponent’s line?
Can you play for 5 minutes? Who won? Can you talk to
your partner about how you may play better? (your
tactics)
Can you play for another 5 minutes? Who won? Why?
Can you tell me why you think some people were
winners?
Can you tell me what you would do next time to make
your game better?
Children should be able to: Be ready to stop the ball or bean bag that their opponent
sends
 Work together with a partner
Year 1
Spring Term
Net Games
Progression 12
EQUIPMENT
Whistle, cones, balls.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Children should learn: To improve by listening to the advice of others and have
fun.
WARM UP
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IN SMALL GROUPS
Can you play dishes and domes? In a coned area, spread
out lots of cones (as many cones as there are children),
half the right way up and half upside down. Children are
put into 2 teams – one team has to turn the upside down
cones the right way up and the other team has to turn the
cones that are the right way up, upside down
Can you play this safely by stepping in low to the cone,
keeping your head upright (so as to avoid the head of
another person moving to the same cone)?
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WHOLE GROUP
COOL DOWN
LEARNING OUTCOMES
QCA UNIT 1 CORE TASK 2 (see attached sheet)
Can you remember some of the ways we talked about last
time that may help you to make your game better?
E.g. More accurate rolling
Looking for space to roll the ball into
Working together
Tracking the ball and getting behind it
Scoring accurately
 Can you play the game well, and enjoy it?
 Can you re-evaluate your game in pairs and play again?
 Can you play against another pair?
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If time, can you have a quick game of roll tag (see prog 1
for details)?
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Can you collect all the equipment in sensibly?
Can you tell me whether you felt it helped when you
listened to the advice of others?
Children should be able to: Improve, by listening to the advice of others, and have
fun.
Aspects and high
quality Outcomes
1. Committed
4. Confidence
10. Enjoyment
relate to attitudes and
not directly linked to
the 4 strands
Acquiring &
Developing Skills
2. Understanding skills
6. A range of
competitive, creative
and challenge-type
activities
Selecting & applying
skills, tactics &
compositional ideas
5. skills
Net and Wall Games Year 1
ELG
Some children will be
working within the following
criteria but will not quite
have fulfilled it completely
LEVEL 1
Most children will have
consolidated the previous criteria
and will be working well within the
following criteria
LEVEL 2
Some children will have consolidated the
previous criteria but may be working well
within this criteria
Move with confidence,
imagination and safety
Move with control and coordination
Use a range of small and
large equipment
Copy, repeat and explore simple
skills and actions with basic control
and co-ordination
Pupils able to stop and control
medium ball on command. Can
throw beanbags accurately into a
hoop to score
Start to link skills and actions
together
Pupils find the best way to throw
the beanbag. Try and stop
partner from getting the beanbag
past you
Start to link skills and actions to
suit the activities
Pupils choose the best way of
moving a ball quickly and
accurately down a pathway
Describe their own and others
actions
Pupils describe their own game
to a partner and then they help
the partner play the game
Comment on their own and others
work
In the above game pupils
comment on what they are doing
and where best to aim to score a
point
Talk about how to exercise safely
Pupils talk about how to move
without bumping into others
Talk about how their bodies feel
during an activity
They describe how the heart
pumps faster when they are
running about
Explore simple skills and copy, remember,
repeat and explore simple actions with control
and co-ordination
Pupils feed ball to partner or target; receive
with control
Most children will have
consolidated the previous criteria
and will be working well within the
following criteria
Some children will have consolidated the
previous criteria but may be working well
within this criteria
Travel around, under, over
and through balancing and
climbing equipment.
Handle tools, objects,
construction and malleable
materials safely
and with increasing control.
Evaluating &
improving
performance
7. Thinking and
decision making
8. Show a desire to
improve
Show awareness of space, of
themselves and others
Knowledge &
understanding of
fitness & health
3. Healthy, active
lifestyles
9. Stamina, suppleness
and strength
Recognise the changes that
happen to their bodies when
they are active
Some children will be working within the above criteria
but will not quite have fulfilled it completely
SEN
Talented
Vary skills, actions and ideas and link these in
ways that suit the activities
Pupils watch ball carefully as it comes over
the net and move feet appropriately
Begin to show some understanding of simple
tactics and basic compositional ideas
Pupils show how they keep the ball away
from their opponents in a net game and
send it to the best places to score a point
Talk about differences between their own and
others’ performance
Pupils discuss the game
Suggest improvements to their own and
others’ performance
Pupils discuss how they can improve their
performance by working together
Describe how their bodies feel during different
activities
Pupils describe how warm and tired they
feel after running quickly compared with
sometimes moving more slowly
Understand how to exercise safely
Pupils will say why they must not rush
about too close to one another or a wall