Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mr. Roberts and I'm going to teaching athletics over the next three lessons.

Now, athletics is made up of three main parts.

That's running, jumping and throwing.

And in order to do these activities safely, we need to make sure we've got enough space to be able to run around and stretch our legs.

So hopefully, you can be a, you'll be able to go outside and do these activities.

It is really important as well that you have a grown up with you.

And hopefully, they will actually join in the activities with you and you can teach them and they can teach you the activities which I'm going to show you during these lessons.

Each of these lessons will be set into three main parts.

There's going to be a warmup.

There's going to be a main activity and there'll be a cool down.

Okay? Okay, can I just remind you that for athletics lessons, you must have a grown up with you? Maybe you could even get them to join in.

You need to make sure the lesson takes place in a space that's big enough for you to run around in.

But should really be outside if you can find an outside space.

Make sure you've got enough space for you to work safely especially above your head.

Use non-slip trainers on your feet.

Make sure the floor is not slippery and wear comfy clothing and have your hair tied up if you've got long hair and remove all jewellery.

And that applies for all of our athletics lessons.

Okay.

The first thing we need to do is make sure we've got the right equipment to do this lesson safely.

So we've got two parts to the lesson.

The first part of the lesson is the warmup.

And we don't actually need very much equipment.

We just need to make sure we've got a big space to work in.

So it's really good idea to go outside and we actually need to possibly put some boundaries out.

So you know where you're going to work safely.

And I would suggest you can either use some cones if you can actually get some, or you could use some cups.

Or you could use some chalk lines.

The second part of the lesson which is the throwing part, we need two main things.

We need something to throw and you need six small objects to throw.

So, if you've got some bean bags, that's perfect or you could use some rolled up socks or you could roll up some or some scrunched up or newspaper, or you could use some tennis balls or even you could even use some cuddly toys but you need six objects to throw.

And you need a target.

And the target is a square.

And I would suggest the best thing to use will be a towel which you lay on the floor four metres or four big strides away from where you're actually going to do your throwing.

Okay? Okay, so we've got three main parts to the lesson.

The first part of the lesson is the Energizer or the warmup.

And the warmup today is called the gear change game.

After you've done the gear change game, we're going to move on to the main part of the lesson.

And the main parts of the lessons is run-throwing.

And the game we're going to play is called Fill the Square.

After we've done fill the square we're going to finish off with a warm down or a cool down.

And we're just going to look at some simple stretching.

Okay? Okay.

During our lesson today, we're going to be introduced to some key words.

And the key words of today's lesson are warm up, and the second set of keywords are related to the main types of throw that we can use.

And that is the push, the underarm, the overarm and the heave.

And I'll introduce you to those different types of throw during the lesson today.

Okay.

So the first thing we have to do today is a warmup or Energizer.

And our warmup is called the gear change game.

And all I want you to do at the start, it's just going to find a space.

And I want you to find different ways of moving around the space.

So I want you to move around.

And I want you to vary between walking, jogging, skipping and running.

Remember to keep changing direction.

Keep looking where you're going and when you're ready, I want you to stop.

I'd like you to do this for about two or three minutes and hopefully, all adults, or the adult who's with you can actually just tell you when you've done enough activity.

Okay.

So you've had a run around and you're starting to get warm.

So how do you know that you're getting warmed up? Let's have a think about that.

I'm going to give you five seconds.

Okay, it's five seconds have gone.

I think you might find that your heart's pumping a little bit faster or maybe even starting to get some red cheeks.

That's a good sign that you're warming up.

But it's a sign that your heart is pumping a little bit faster.

Okay.

So the next part of a warmup, because we're going to make it a little bit harder, I'm going to actually put in four different speeds that you're going to control.

So we've got just like the gears in a car or the gears on a bike.

First gear is walking speed.

And the second gear is jogging.

The third gear is skipping or sidestepping if you want to try that.

And the fourth gear is running.

Now, it's really, really important that you look where you're going and you stay safe.

The safety is the most important thing of all.

And make sure you're, you're running a new quite tall when you're running.

Your grownup, will hopefully call out the numbers as you're running.

And if you're finding it difficult, stop after each run.

And I've got a little video here, now to show you, of a little boy, who's just showing you very simply how to do these activities.

There, you have it.

You've just seen a little video of a boy demonstrating how to do the activity.

Now to remember, one is walking speed.

Two is jogging.

Three is skipping and four is running.

Now you would've seen that he went round in a circle.

You don't have to go run in a circle.

I want you to change direction, but I want you to make sure that you're safe and you look where you're going.

Okay? I want you to do this for about three minutes.

And again, the adult who's with you, can tell you when you've done enough Well done.

So you're feeling really warmed up.

So I'm going to ask you a question I want to think about.

Which of those gears was the most tiring and why do you think that is? Okay, so you've got five seconds I sort of think.

That's right, the fourth gear, the fast running, that was the most tiring.

And the reason for that just because it's making your heart pump faster.

So it's having to pump your blood to make your muscles work.

Because your muscles need the oxygen that your blood carries.

Okay? Well done.

So now we can move on to the main activity.

Okay.

So what's the main activity of today's lesson? That's a throwing game called Fill the Square.

And the way this game will work and you need to set this up, you need a target.

And the target that I'd like you use is a towel.

And you're going to lie that towel down on the ground flat.

And that's can be four metres or four big strides away from your where you're going to do your throwing from.

Okay? You need six objects to throw and they need to be small enough for you to be able to handle with one hand.

So it could be a tennis ball.

It could be a bean bag.

It could be a scrunched up newspaper or it could be a rolled up sock.

Or it could be anything that isn't too valuable to throw.

Okay.

So we've got our six objects and we've got our target.

Now what you have to do is, one at a time, you're going to throw those six objects to make them land on the towel accurately.

And you've to do it underarm.

After you've thrown all six, you must then collect up any that didn't land on the towel and walk back to the start line and you're going to throw those.

And you keep going until you get all of the objects to land on the towel accurately.

I want you to repeat this three times.

Okay? And I'm going to show you a short video, of a little boy demonstrating the activity, or to watch how he does it.

And I to watch how he goes about and collects any of the balls that miss the target.

So until he gets all six on to the towel.

Okay.

So you seen how he did it? And you seen how he collected up the balls? after he missed? Now, it's your turn to go and have a go.

I want you to do it three times.

Okay? When you've done all three times, then come back to the video and we'll give you some new instructions and something to really challenge you, to make you work really, really hard.

Hey, well done.

How did you get on? Did you have a competition? Okay, now we just think about what can we do to make it a little bit harder? What I'd like you to do is trying with different types of throwing action.

You've tried underarm.

How about trying it overarm? Or try it with two hands? So I want to have a go with, one hand underarm.

Try with your other hand underarm.

Try overarm and try with two hands.

And after you've done that, I want to come back and we'll give you some new instructions.

Well done.

So did you find that easy? So the next thing you could do is about moving further away.

And trying it from a longer distance.

And that's how you go on.

I want you to go and have another go and see if you're actually becoming more successful.

Now that you're getting to be really good at it.

Okay, well done.

That was really good.

So what I want you to do now is I want you to just think about one question.

Which of those throwing styles was the most accurate? Or which did you find easiest? There's no really right answer or wrong answer about this.

The one I find easiest is the underarm throw.

But maybe that wasn't the case with you.

Maybe you found one of the others really easy.

Well done anyway.

Good effort.

Okay, so well done.

So we've got one final part of the lesson.

And that's the Cool Down.

And in today's lesson, a cool down is going to be some simple stretches.

Now, some really important teaching points about stretching.

The first teaching point is that you must hold every stretch for five seconds.

And the second teaching point is you must also hold your breath for five seconds as you're doing your stretching.

Okay? So you've got three stretches I want you to do.

The first stretch is a Tall Stretch.

I want you to make the tallest shape you can make.

And I to hold it for five seconds.

Well done, okay? Just go and have a practise.

And I want you to repeat that three times.

After you've done that, you then come over and you then do a second type of stretch.

And that's called a Wall Stretch.

And the wall stretch is where you make yourself as big as possible, in a big star-shape.

And again, you're going to hold it for five seconds and you're going to hold your breath, and you will do it three times.

And the final stretch is called a Ball Stretch.

And again, five seconds, hold your breath and you're going to try and make yourself as small as possible.

Now you could just bend down and scrunch yourself up and touch your toes.

Or you could sit on the ground, pull your knees up to your chest, pull your knees in, tuck your chin in.

And again, hold it for five seconds.

And you're going to repeat it three times.

So after you've done the tall stretch three times, the wall stretch three times and the ball stretch three times, I then want you to come back to the video for the final parts of the lesson.

Well done.

Okay, well done.

So that was your stretching and I got one question for you.

How long do you think you should hold your stretch for? So think about that one.

I did tell you, think about it.

That's right.

It's five seconds.

Well done.

Okay, so you've done really, really well in today's lesson.

So we did a warmup, which was a the running game involving the gears.

Then we did some throwing and you were throwing balls accurately to land on a target called Fill the Square.

And then we finished up with some stretching.

Well done, you've done really, really well.

I look forward to catching up with you in our next lesson.

Well done.