KS1 · Physical education · Year 2
Balance circuit
Health and wellbeing: agility, balance and coordination
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can perform a range of activities that demonstrate effective balance and my ability to remain motivated to succeed.
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Balance circuit: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can perform a range of activities that demonstrate effective balance and my ability to remain motivated to succeed.
Key learning points
- Move: being balanced at each circuit station requires us to use a range of body parts and hold them steady.
- Move: demonstrating good strength and control will help you to successfully complete the balance stations.
- Think: high quality balance requires concentration, focus and silence in order to hold balanced body positions.
- Feel: encouraging our partner to improve and helping to motivate them shows a strong sense of empathy.
- Connect: being motivated and encouraging your partner to be motivated shows great determination and self-belief.
Words to know
- balance
- keeping a steady and stable body position
- circuit
- series of physical activities or exercises
- quality
- the good characteristics of a performance that suggest the movements and balances are performed correctly
Common mistakes
Some pupils may think that balance is a fixed skill that you are either good at or not.
There are many elements to balance: working on all of these elements contributes to overall improvement. Improving focus and concentration can help, along with developing muscular strength, proprioception and self-belief.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The equipment listed allows for both partners to exercise at the same time. If only half the equipment is available, pupils can take turns at each station. Alternatively, these stations can be removed from the circuit and another activity repeated twice.