KS1 · Physical education · Year 1

Curled movements

Gymnastics: individual movements and balances

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Your learning goal

I can create a variety of curled movements and balances on the floor and apparatus.

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Curled movements: 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 variety of curled movements and balances on the floor and apparatus.

Key learning points

Move: moving and balancing in curled ways requires the body to be rolled up tightly in a tucked position.
Move: combining curled with high and low, over and under increases the variety of the movements and balances created.
Think: high-quality curled movements and balances require silent control and pointed fingers and toes.
Connect: helping others to develop and improve their performance shows empathy.
Feel: using self-belief and striving to improve your performance will lead to feeling successful.

Words to know

curled: an action we perform by rolling our body up tightly in a tucked position with a rounded back
tuck: a shape performed when our bodies are curled and our knees are brought up to our chest
balance: maintaining a desired shape in a stationary position

Common mistakes

In gymnastics, we only do forward and backward rolls. We bring our feet up to our bottom in a tuck jump.

Rolls can be sideways; as long as pupils roll silently with control, they are still successful. We bring our feet and knees up towards our chest in a tuck jump.

For parents, carers and teachers

Lessons using zones of apparatus are for guidance only. You can use zones, or allow pupils to move freely on all the apparatus. To do a forward roll, tell pupils to lift their bottoms high and tuck their heads down low so that the back of the head touches the floor, and not the top of the head.