KS2 · Physical education · Year 5
Flexibility
Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility
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Your learning goal
I can explain how flexibility affects the body and can perform static and dynamic flexibility activities to develop my own flexibility.
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What you’ll learn
I can explain how flexibility affects the body and can perform static and dynamic flexibility activities to develop my own flexibility.
Key learning points
- Move: our muscles show flexibility when the body is moving and when it is still.
- Think: the more we stretch our muscles before and after exercise, the more this will increase our flexibility.
- Feel: continuing to improve our flexibility shows excellent resilience.
- Connect: cooperating with each other to help improve our flexibility ensures we stay motivated.
Words to know
- flexibility
- the elasticity of muscles when stretching and the ability to move joints through a full range of motion
- stretch
- a movement in which you gently pull or extend your muscles to make them longer
- extend
- making a body part lengthened or straighten
Common mistakes
Flexibility can only be challenged when we are holding a specific postion and staying still.
Flexibility of our muscles can be performed when still (static) and on the move (dynamic).
For parents, carers and teachers
- Pupils should never feel pain when stretching. Encourage pupils to notice the muscle lengthening, but not to take the stretch beyond this point. Dynamic (moving) stretches are different to 'bouncing' in a static stretch. Bouncing should be avoided.