Building understanding

Boccia

Physical development

﻿Hello and welcome, my name's Simon. And today we're going to be learning about Boccia. For this lesson you will need, socks, tea tray, balloon, soft ball. Press Pause while you get things ready. Let's get ready. Find a quiet, clear space to work away from distractions. Check you are wearing the right clothes for sport and physical activity. Make sure your resources are nearby. Use a familiar reference to prepare the learner that the activity is going to start. This could be a symbol, sound or song. Press pause while you get things ready. It's time to look, listen, learn. Now, boccia is a target game played by two teams of two different colours. So today I'm going to be using socks. So we've got the purple team and I've got the green team and they're going to be aiming for the white jack. So the closest to the white jack wins. So the first challenge I would like your child to try and complete is to try and have a go at aiming for the white jack as many times as they can. So, first of all I'm going to release the white Jack and then I'm going to practise throw my socks to try and strike the white jacks. The green one, bounced and rolled off. The purple, oh, say it again All right that's how it rolled quite close to the left, that's a good shot. [Mumbles] All right, so the white jacks is already down we got to throw the purple. Not bad, not bad. We going to throw again and try if I can, and not bounced off again. So let's just show you again. Got the purple here, brilliant, and the green, fantastic! To some students, you might want to be as close to jack as you can, because you might not be able to throw the ball or the sock that far. So that's absolutely fine. So what we can do is we can place the Jack down quite close and then position yourself. So you're able to maybe drop the sock to land at all as close to the jack as you can. So we're going to have a go, the green one here. Land in just in front of the jacks, so we going to need to reposition ourselves. All right, so we're going to move back slowly with my arm back towards me with the purple sock. Brilliant! Lands on top. All right. So that's what we're going to try again. So let's have another go with that. All right. So we placed this as close to you as you like, all right so you place that down there and you can position yourself so you're closer to the, um, to the Jack and get stretch if you need to and to try and land as close to on the Jack as we can. Just bounced on the floor. [mumbles] That's a good shot, happy at that. All right and again here, with the purple. Brilliant! That actually did not look really not on the way which always a good tactic. All right, so after you find, if you want to get closer and just to drop, the sock, on it was close to the jack as we can. All right, fantastic! Some children may need some extra help in releasing the boxer sock. So what I've got here is a dinner tray, all right? So what you can use that is for a slope to run down and to push the, um, the sock off the tray. So what we need to do here, put the white jack and help like place the ball [mumbles] and then place your hand on top and if you have any gradient that you like. It's nice and light and support it underneath. And then they can release their fingers and then drop the, drop the sock. So now the target is that white jack on the floor and now we're going to aim with the purple sock. So place it on that, and it's a patience game. Okay. Really waiting and make sure your child facilitates that movement so they initiating. Excellent shot that, just landed just in front. And then we got the green to stop that. Oh that's not an in-between them, great shot, green wins that one. And I'll have another go, just so we can see. So again, place it on there, on the tray just drops off. Fantastic! And you may know I've actually got to swap the tray to upside-down to just slides off quite nicely there. All right, so that's my tip there But you can also use a chopping board if you you got one or something similar, a litter box, um, anything that you can find really. I'll have another go. Brilliant shot right there, in front. And there we go, land it. Um, touching the jack so the purple got that one there. All right. So another object that we could use is a balloon with some rice in if you'd like, um, to sensory element. All right and if you don't have a balloon to hand but what we do have is a pocket of pasta and it is unopened. And as you can hear it rattling, it makes a real sensory stimulus when you hold it or when you throw it, when you release it. I'm going to do this, watch it here. You can sort of hear that sound when it lands which is fantastic for the sensory stimulus. So I'll have another go there. [Pasta Dropping] Absolutely brilliant! Alternatively, as I mentioned, we could use a balloon only balloons if your child is happy to use one because they they might pop so if they're scared of balloons. I recommend not to, um, but if you put rice in there it makes a nice rattle noise which adds that sensory elements. All right, So good luck with that. Pause the video to complete your task. Resume once you're finished. To increase the challenge, you might want to move the jack so it's farther away just to make it challenging of really trying to throw a little bit more powerful to aim for the jack. So here we're going to place it a bit farther away and what we want is to throw with your arm move fast to throw a strike the jack there. I'm going to put more power into, into shots, not bad Both are touching there, fantastic! So I'll have another go there so we will try and get it farther away so you really want to try and throw as powerful as you can to try and make the aim for that long shot if you like. Okay, not bad, bounce not bad. Um, alternatively, you can change an angle of release as well which is a really good tactic in the game of Boccia. So if we change the angle, so we going to throw to the side now and that's great because if you're in charge of the jack and you throw first and you can throw the jack closer to you and makes it more difficult for your partner, your opponent to try aim for it, so it's a really good tactic there. All right, so we're going to throw an angle so you adjust your position now it's facing the target which is always good and to try and aim at the different angle, all right, an angle of release. All right so got that placed there and release all to the angle, all right, so good luck with that. So now we're ready for a boccia um, so as I've mentioned before we got two colours. We've got the purple team, the purple team against the green team. Purple socks against the greens socks. So you take in turns in throwing the jack so I'm going to start of with the green team so the green team are going to throw the jack. And the green has the first go. All right so I'll try to slightly change my position to aim for the jack, okay, just bounce away. So now, we've got the purple team. The purple's going to have a go, so purple sock and the purple is closest there. So we're on the green now, the green's going to have a go so we're going to try knock that purple out of the way if we can or just strike the jack to move that out of the way. I took a risk and it failed because it bounced off and went away, so now the purple is the closest, um, so we can play the last shot and the purple's the closest there, one point to the purples. So we have another game where the purple goes first so the purple's going to have a go. All right so they going to release jack there and then the purple is going to have their shot, touching, great shot there. Then the green, the green is going to have a go and the green pushed it away so the green is in control now and the purple is going to try take control by knocking the green away or striking the jack. And they landed, they slightly pushed the green away so the green has a hard shot now because the purple plucked it and it bounce on the purple and went away so that was point to the purple. Um, so therefore take it in turns and remember to increase the distance and the angle when you are playing your matches to give you the best chance of success. All right, so good luck on your matches. Make it easier. Increase the size of targets/shorten the distance. Modify using a slope to support the learner aiming for a target. Make it harder Look at our master class sessions and explore 'top tips' from elite sportspeople. Search for local opportunities to play Boccia and other target sports. More ideas. Search and watch Boccia . Design and make your own ball/jack for example tin foil, socks and other household items. Step Principle. All of our activities can be adapted using the step principle For example, balloon with beads in to support visually impaired learners. Bigger, brighter tactile, weighted resources. Adapt space and activities to suit wheelchair users For example, use a slope to support the learner aiming for a target. So that's your Boccia lesson. I hope you had fun. I hope you enjoyed it. Keep practising those skills and keep working hard. All right, so goodnight and getting bold. Share you work with Oak National. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Twitter tagging at Oak national and hashtag learn with Oak.

Boccia

Boccia

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