KS1 & KS2 physical education curriculum

This unit explores a new, more complex theme in which pupils have to work in pairs to create balances that rely on both partners using each other’s bodies to ensure the balance is safe and still. Once pupils have been able to create both counter balance and counter tension balances, they will utilise their prior learning of movement and flow, including flight, as they link the balances on a range of apparatus in pairs and in groups. Pupils will have to think strategically, to compose their sequences which will prepare pupils for their future gymnastics learning.

1. Counter balance
2. Counter balance on apparatus
3. Sequences to include counter balance on apparatus
4. Counter tension
5. Sequences to include counter balance and counter tension on apparatus
6. Performance and giving feedback to others

• Pupils know how to perform a wide range of movements in canon and unison.
• Pupils are able to create balances that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
• Pupils will be able to link movements and balances together in sequence with flow.
• Pupils understand how to include changes in level and direction in their sequences.
• Pupils can create pair and group sequences on the floor and on apparatus.
• Pupils can create moments of flight including jumps and turns, controlling their landings.