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Year 4

Sequence completion and performance

I can finalise and perform a group sequence with fluidity, accurate timing, incorporating movements and balances with asymmetry, symmetry, canon and unison.

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Year 4

Sequence completion and performance

I can finalise and perform a group sequence with fluidity, accurate timing, incorporating movements and balances with asymmetry, symmetry, canon and unison.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Move: performing a high-quality group sequence requires consistently demonstrating control and extension on apparatus.
  2. Think: performing a high-quality sequence requires consistent flow and accurate timing.
  3. Connect: acting on feedback will improve our performance and show great respect towards those observing.
  4. Feel: self-motivation enables us to strive to improve our own and others' sequences.

Keywords

  • Feedback - helpful comments to 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

When challenged with adding additional actions to their sequences as they finalise their work, pupils add in additional and unnecessary actions, coming away from the stipulated actions to include.

Explain that extra actions don't necessarily improve the sequence and will make it very difficult for someone observing to evaulate their work.


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Prior to the final performance, challenge pupils to film each other performing and evualate their own performance to compare their self assessment with another group's peer assessment of their work.
Teacher tip

Equipment

mats, benches, gymnastic tables, climbing frames or wall bars

Content guidance

  • Risk assessment required - physical activity

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Prior knowledge starter quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
What is the benefit of evaluating our own and others’ work?

Correct answer: develop our work
take over
completely change ideas

Q2.
What do we mean by performance?

hide our work
Correct answer: display our work
show off

Q3.
What should we do when we are receiving feedback on our work?

talk over it
become frustrated
Correct answer: listen carefully

Q4.
What is most important when designing a gymnastics sequence?

include all apparatus
it’s really long
Correct answer: it’s high-quality

Assessment exit quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
We can receive feedback to help us improve, but what else can feedback tell us?

Correct answer: what’s going well
what’s fast
what’s slow

Q2.
We don’t just keep on adding in extra actions to our sequence as it will reduce the quality of the sequence and what else?

harder to see
Correct answer: harder to evaluate
harder to move

Q3.
What quality are we showing if we strive to improve our sequences?

Correct Answer: self-motivation, self motivation

Q4.
When we listen to the feedback we receive carefully, what quality are we showing?

imagination
Correct answer: respect
creativity