KS1 · Physical education · Year 2
Creation of sequences
Gymnastics: linking movements and balances
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can create a sequence on the apparatus with flow, including a jump, a roll and a balance, and make my own decisions about the order of the actions in the sequence pattern.
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Creation of sequences: 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 create a sequence on the apparatus with flow, including a jump, a roll and a balance, and make my own decisions about the order of the actions in the sequence pattern.
Key learning points
- Move: quality movements and balances are performed in sequence with flow, moving from one action to the next.
- Think: reflecting on the quality of movements and balances will improve our sequences.
- Think: deciding on the best order to perform a sequence (jump, roll, balance) demonstrates effective decision making.
- Connect: sharing the apparatus safely shows empathy and allows others time and space to create their sequences.
- Feel: striving to practise, reflect and improve our sequence shows courage.
Words to know
- decision making
- choosing what to do.
- quality
- the good parts of the performance that suggest the movements and balances are performed correctly.
- sequence
- a combination of actions that have been added (linked) together in a particular order.
Common mistakes
Practise makes perfect. Pupils forget the variety of shapes they can use for gymnastics skills and default to using the same basic balances and jumps in every sequence.
Practise might not always make a performance perfect, but it will make actions and sequences improve. Pupils can work together to help use practise time to improve. Display posters or lists of shape ideas for jumps, rolls and balances.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Sometimes, practise reinforces poor techniques. Practise should be accompanied by evaluation and reflection. Always encourage creativity and celebrate it.