Sequence completion and performance to peers
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can rehearse and improve a group sequence, responding to peer feedback in preparation for our performance.
Key learning points
- Move: performing a quality group sequence requires flow, control and extension, using apparatus throughout.
- Move: performing a quality group sequence requires balances to be held still, with flow in and out of the balances.
- Think: responding to feedback to improve our performance requires decision making to include all of the suggestions.
- Connect: listening to feedback to improve our performance requires trust and respect towards those observing.
- Feel: listening and responding to feedback demonstrates a commitment to improving our performance.
Keywords
Feedback - comments to help know how you're doing or how you can improve.
Performance - the execution or display of a series of actions
Quality - the good characteristics of the performance that suggest the movements and balances are performed correctly.
Common misconception
Some pupils may think that a performance should be perfect and if any improvements are suggested, they have failed or made a mistake.
Striving to be perfect is different to striving to do our best. It is good to want to perform at a high standard and it feels great when we achieve it, however, if we are seeking perfection, we might forget to celebrate everything we have achieved.
Teacher tip
Try to avoid placing a focus on a faultless performance. Scoring systems at elite levels no longer award 'a perfect 10'. Instead they award scores for difficulty and execution. A difficult skill with lower execution could score the same as a less difficult skill performed without fault.
Equipment
mats, benches, gymnastic tables, wall bars
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.When trying your best in gymnastics, what type of performance are you aiming for?
Q2.What can you do if you are told to try to improve something?
Q3.How can we approach a performance?
Q4.Why do we evaluate our performance?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What can you do to improve the timing of your sequence?
Q2.What can you do if you are unsure about how to improve something?
Q3.What can you do to encourage others in your group?
Q4.What might you do after a performance?
To help you plan your 3 physical education lesson on: Sequence completion and performance to peers, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 3 physical education lesson on: Sequence completion and performance to peers, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
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