ABSTRACT

How can you make gymnastics activity fun, lively and inclusive? How can you improve the health and well-being of all your children? How can you ensure progression over time?

This practical and easy-to-use teacher’s guide is the brand new edition of the popular workbook Movement Education leading to Gymnastics 4-7. It takes a session-by-session approach to teaching physical development and well-being through gymnastics for the five to seven age range.

Fully updated with the most current schemes of work to use at Key Stage 1, it sets out a series of forty sessions over the two year span, to give you planned and logical progression of both content and advice.

This one-stop resource includes twenty session plans per year group, which you can follow as a complete course or dip into for ideas and inspiration. It also includes Specific Skills Guide to help you support children in developing the correct techniques.

Each session plan includes:

  • learning objectives
  • assessment criteria
  • teaching approaches
  • warm up and cool down activities
  • the content of the session
  • apparatus needed 
  • health and safety considerations.

The companion volume, Developing Physical Health, Fitness and Well-Being through Gymnastics 7-11 follows the same format, and together, these user-friendly books provide a progressive programme of work from Years 1-6. If you are a practising or student teacher, this guide will give you all the confidence you need to teach gymnastics in your school.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter |9 pages

The approach

chapter |1 pages

Overall plan Year 1

chapter |1 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |1 pages

Handling apparatus safely

chapter |1 pages

Starting and finishing positions

chapter |1 pages

Going and stopping

chapter |2 pages

Slide and spin

chapter |1 pages

Push and pull

chapter |1 pages

Jumping and landing

chapter |1 pages

Hopping and skipping

chapter |1 pages

Rocking and rolling

chapter |2 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |1 pages

Big and small

chapter |1 pages

High and low

chapter |1 pages

Wide and narrow

chapter |1 pages

Travelling on different body parts

chapter |1 pages

Keeping still while on hands and feet

chapter |1 pages

Holding stretched and tucked positions

chapter |1 pages

Moving in extended and tucked positions

chapter |5 pages

Final assessment activity

chapter |1 pages

Overall plan Year 2

chapter |2 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |1 pages

Handling apparatus safely

chapter |1 pages

Slide, spin, push, pull

chapter |1 pages

Jumping, hopping and skipping

chapter |2 pages

Using actions with rotation (turning)

chapter |1 pages

Travelling quickly or slowly

chapter |1 pages

Strongly and lightly

chapter |1 pages

Moving in different directions

chapter |1 pages

Moving up, down and sideways

chapter |3 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |1 pages

Taking weight/holding still positions

chapter |1 pages

Transferring body weight

chapter |1 pages

Travelling along straight lines

chapter |1 pages

Travelling using zigzag pathways

chapter |5 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |1 pages

The sessions Year 1

chapter |2 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |4 pages

Handling apparatus safely

chapter |2 pages

Starting and finishing positions

chapter |2 pages

Going and stopping

chapter |2 pages

Slide and spin

chapter |2 pages

Push and pull

chapter |2 pages

Jumping and landing

chapter |2 pages

Hopping and skipping

chapter |2 pages

Rocking and rolling

chapter |2 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |2 pages

Big and small

chapter |2 pages

High and low

chapter |2 pages

Wide and narrow

chapter |2 pages

Travelling on different body parts

chapter |2 pages

Keeping still while on hands and feet

chapter |2 pages

Holding stretched and tucked positions

chapter |2 pages

Moving in extended and tucked positions

chapter |5 pages

Final assessment activity

chapter |1 pages

The sessions Year 2

chapter |2 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |4 pages

Handling apparatus safely

chapter |2 pages

Slide, spin, push, pull

chapter |2 pages

Jumping, hopping and skipping

chapter |2 pages

Using actions with rotation (turning)

chapter |2 pages

Travelling quickly or slowly

chapter |2 pages

Strongly and lightly

chapter |2 pages

Moving in different directions

chapter |2 pages

Moving up, down and sideways

chapter |4 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |2 pages

Taking weight/holding still positions

chapter |2 pages

Transferring weight: feet to hands (1)

chapter |2 pages

Transferring weight: feet to hands (2)

chapter |4 pages

Transferring body weight

chapter |2 pages

Travelling along straight lines

chapter |2 pages

Travelling using zigzag pathways

chapter |3 pages

Assessment activity

chapter |6 pages

Specific skills guide

Running