KS2 · Physical education · Year 5
Jumping and turning
Gymnastics: flight
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Your learning goal
I can include turns in my jumps to create flight and use these ideas to create a sequence that includes two turning jumps and three travelling movements with flow.
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What you’ll learn
I can include turns in my jumps to create flight and use these ideas to create a sequence that includes two turning jumps and three travelling movements with flow.
Key learning points
- Move: quality turning jumps require bending the knees, swinging the arms and controlling the landing with extension.
- Move: a turning jump involves jumping into the air and rotating our body around a vertical axis while airborne.
- Think: knowing how to accurately identify strengths and developments in our partner's jumps improves their performance.
- Feel: creating a range of turning jumps and challenging ourselves to develop our ideas requires integrity.
- Connect: helping our partner to ensure their landing is safe when creating turning jumps involves trust.
Words to know
- extension
- stretched and pointed fingers and toes that extend outwards from the body
- jump
- pushing off the ground or equipment with our legs to go up into the air
- turning
- changing the direction your body is facing by rotating the body around a vertical axis
Common mistakes
Pupils struggle to jump high enough to turn due to a weak push off. Pupils are wobbly and unbalanced when turning. Pupils turn too much or too little.
Emphasise bending the knees and pushing through the balls of the feet. Pupils should practise engaging their core muscles to help them turn with control. Make sure pupils focus on rotating from the shoulders and hips not just the arms.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Continue to focus on safe landing as many pupils may lose balance and control when adding in turns. They may struggle to coordinate turning, landing and bending their knees. Pupils need to build confidence and control by starting with the 1/4 and 1/2 turns before building to full turns.