Building understanding

Volleyball (Part 1)

Physical development

﻿Hi everyone my name is Alistair and today we're going to play volleyball. For this lesson you will need a balloon, some rice, a beach ball, a table, a bubble tube, and some pipe cleaners. If you haven't got all of these items, you can substitute them with things that you have in your home. And that's absolutely fine. Press pause whilst you get things ready, let's get ready. Find a quiet, clear space to work away from distractions. Ensure the area is safe and that your child is feeling fit and well to take part in the lesson. Check you are wearing the right clothes for sports and physical activity. I'd encourage your child to be as independent as possible with this. Make sure your resources are nearby. Use a familiar reference to prepare the learner that the activity is about to start. This could be a symbol, a sound, or even a song, press pause whilst you get things ready. It's time to look, listen and learn. Volleyball is a great game where there's lots of movements. So we need a really active warmup today to make sure our muscles are ready for exercise. So I've got a little space sorted for myself here. I'm going to do some movements on the spot and I'm going to start off with some marching. It's going to be some real high knees march away there this is something that you might do for a couple of minutes, just to get your child ready, and in the mood for some exercise, I'm going to go through a bit quicker, but usually would expect our warm-up to take at least five minutes. It might be longer for your child. So march in a way that, and I'm going to break into a slow jog. So just jogging on the spot there, trying to get that heart rate up and ready for our game of volleyball. After you've done that for a while, we're going to go and see if we can go super fast, a really fast feet, and try and do that for 10 seconds. So some real persistence, your child trying really hard to keep that speed going for 10 seconds already after three one, two, three, and go fast feet, really fast fast as you can get those arms and legs going 5 more seconds, keep going 3, 2, 1 and back to a march there. So really getting that heart rate up your child might start to notice. They're feeling a bit hotter. They're starting to sweat. Their muscles are starting to be ready for exercise. So again, you're going to go into a jog. So jogging on the spot. And again, you can do this at any space. This could be in your living room. It could be in the kitchen. It could be out in the garden, wherever works best for you in a moment I'm going to try going to do 10 seconds of super fast sprinting on the spot. Are we ready again? After three, one, two, three super fast, super fast. This might be a competition with your child, so you can do that alongside them and see who go the fastest and who can last the longest and slow up back down can turn that into a march. Now I'm going to think about some jumps because in volleyball, lots of opportunities for us to be jumping and stretching and some really dynamic movement. So I think about a jump on the spot. You could have a little punch up when we go down and leap up like that. So go down and leap up. You could try some star jumps again where we come out to the side and back in. So I'm going to try 10 star jumps. I can really feel my heart rate starting to rise now. So after three 10 star jumps one, two, three, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. There are lots of different ways you can motivate your child with their warmups so really do change things around and see what works for them. And they find really motivated. A really fun one is to use a bubble tube. So I've got a bubble tube. You can get these quite cheap from the shop. You can also do speak to my science friends. You can make them with some, fairy liquid, and make your own at home but the idea of blowing some bubbles and having your child chase them around and pop them is a really fun activity. And it's a brilliant way to get us moving and active. So I'm going to try with my bubbles now. I've got my bubble tube here I'm going to blow some bubbles and then I go I pop, pop, pop a great way to get me moving and a really fun way to have our warm up so I think my muscles are ready. You can, you could do that with your child. You could have 10 minutes while you blow them bubbles. And they're running round and popping and really getting them ready for exercise and to get ready for sports. So we're going to move into our volleyball lesson now, great warmup and look forward to practising some of our volleyball skills. Pause the video to complete your task. For our next activity we're going to concentrate on the types of movement we will do in volleyball. There's loads of movement. We have to stretch it really nice and high. We have to crouch down low. If we think when we're around the netting volleyball, we moving from side to side, we're moving quickly. So lots of dynamic movement, and this next activity is designed to support your child in moving in different directions quickly. Thinking about jumping high and crouching down low so those are some great movements and great exercises here. I'll just put some coloured card onto the wall. So again, I've used bright, shiny resources. So if your child is visually impaired, that will support them here. You could add a sensory element to those. If your child has a particular tactile resource that they like, you could have that. So it could be something nice and spongy, and it's got a nice texture to it. So I've used the foil for my triangle here. So again, use the resources that motivate your child the best. And the things we're going to do is basically come onto our sorts of volleyball wall over here. This could be done outside. You could use chalk to have different targets and points on your wall. I've used cards for inside here, but I'm going to think about sort of getting a solid base and then how I move to touch those different points. Now we could start off slowly. So we could say, I'm going to go for the gold cloud. So crouch down here, touch the gold cloud. I'm going to go for the yellow spot so stretch up and touch the yellow spot. I'll go for the gold triangle down that low so crouch down nice and low and touch the pink square. And finally, the white square on the wall here. And the idea being that you would speed those movements up. You could shout out a shape or a colour, and then your child, as they would in a volleyball game would be around. And they'd be touching, going from side to side. There'd be jumping up. There'd be crouching down. If your child has a wheelchair to use it again, use our STEP Principle. Be aware that you could lower the height of our touch points there on the wall to make it accessible for them. So I'm going to have a quick go and then I'll leave you guys to try out your own little volleyball net core. So I'll get in the middle. And remember am on my toes. So I'm ready for movements here. And then I'm going to say, right gold triangle down low yellow spot touch up high square over there, pink square there the cloud. My heart rate is rising all ready. So it's a really good exercise workout for us here. Thinking about the speed of movement, the directions that you move in and mirroring those skills that we would use in a volleyball match. Have fun. Pause the video to complete your task. A great place to start when practising our volleyball skills is with a balloon and really trying to get the idea that we're trying to keep the balloon or the ball off the ground. And the balloon really helps here so, to start off with, we're going to practise by just simply keeping the balloon up in the air. So just nice gentle shots up in the air, try and use both hands. Sometimes it gets a bit tricky and it can get away from us. So it will encourage some movement from your child, but just moving the ball in the air or the balloon in the air. That's a really good place to start. Your child might a good 5, 10 minutes or more just practising that skill there we'll then move on and try and refine those skills there, and see if we can get our balloon over a target. Now I've made my volleyball nets out of pipe cleaners, that Coloured pipe cleaners. You could do this outside with some chalk. You could have a table that you wanting to strike the balloon over, but there's lots of different ways you can do this. I've just laid it sorts of a mini net there with my pipe cleaners. And I'm going to see if I can practise different shots now, and I can get my balloon over my net there. So I'd rather than just trying to keep the ball to myself up, I'm going to see if I can strike the ball and get it over our net so different shots you might see, you might have your child stretching up to hit the balloon over. You might start to think about what a set looks like in volleyball. So it hitting the ball up like that. So different skills that we're starting to build this. So let's have a practise of trying to get our balloon over the net that's one and then different shots out to the side. And you can see it forces me to move and to stretch and for some higher movements and then come down and some low movements. So that's a really good activity, introduction into volleyball before we start using an actual softball or volleyball itself. So have a practise around with that. I've done this exercise seating, so really suitable for a wheelchair user, bringing the net down lower. So think about a STEP Principle in terms of bringing that net down lower, which makes it more accessible. Again, you could do this activity standing up so I could raise the height of the net there and the exercise we did previously, where we were moving around from side to side, thinking about jumping and stretching and crouching down low. All of those movements come into play here and will really help us in our next lesson. When we look to play some volleyball, great work everyone. Pause the video to complete your task. To make this session easier. You could use a larger ball or a balloon and practise using your hand to strike and make contact. You could focus on fewer skills and movements and progress at a pace most appropriate to your child. To make it harder. You could look at our masterclass sessions and explore 'top tips' from elite sportspeople. You could progress from using a balloon to a soft ball and perform skills in a defined area with increasing accuracy. More ideas, ask your parents or carer to help you search for volleyball content online, make a court and enjoy a balloon volleyball match. All of our activities can be adapted using STEP Principle. That's looking at the space, the task, the equipment we use and how people help us. For example, our balloon with rice in to support visually impaired learners in volleyball, we could use bigger brighter resources and adapt the space and activities to suit wheelchair users. For example, adjust the heights of the nets or barrier and ensure there's an appropriate space to practise the skills. Brilliant volleyball everyone. Bye see you next time. Share your work with Oak National. If you'd like to please ask your parents or carer to share your work on Twitter, tagging @OakNational and with the hashtag #LearnwithOak. We'd love to see your brilliant work.

Volleyball (Part 1)

Volleyball (Part 1)

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