KS2 · Physical education · Year 3
Performing meditative balances
Health and wellbeing: mindfulness and meditative balances
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Your learning goal
I can hold and perform various meditative balances to help my mind and body to feel more relaxed.
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Performing meditative balances: 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 hold and perform various meditative balances to help my mind and body to feel more relaxed.
Key learning points
- Move: we can use meditative balances to help us focus and relax as well as increase our strength and flexibility.
- Think: performing meditative balances correctly requires focus in order to relax.
- Feel: trying our hardest even when we find it difficult to focus and relax shows that we have self-discipline.
- Connect: cooperating together to create high quality meditative balances shows that we trust and respect one another.
Words to know
- meditative
- being very calm, quiet and focused
- balance
- keep stability and control over the body's position to stay stationary
- focus
- the concentration of attention on a particular object, task or goal
Common mistakes
Pupils over complicate the balances they are holding and fail to hold them still. This also means they will not be able to focus as they try to hold the balance.
Encourage pupils to create a stable base, enabling their body to focus throughout and successfully use the balances as a tool to relax.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Take the class through the first few meditative balances, one at a time, before pupils go off on their own to explore the rest.