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Year 5

Gymnastics: counter balance and counter tension

6 lessons

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  • Move: application of tactics, strategies and compositional ideas
  • Think: evaluation, analysis and reflection

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This unit will focus on exploring counter balance and counter tension using the floor and apparatus. Pupils will learn how to perform a range of balances in pairs and compose sequences that consistently incorporate flow. Pupils will evaluate their sequences and reflect on how to make improvements.

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
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