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﻿Hello everyone! My name's Simon, and today, we're going to be learning about aiming for targets! For this lesson, You will need socks, tea tray, milk cartons, yoghourt pots. Press pause while 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 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. So, to start off with, what we're going to use. We're going to use an empty milk carton. The empty milk carton is going to represent a skittle. All right? So what we're going to do, we're going to place that in front of us, and the first challenge, we're going to use our socks, and we're going to try and throw and aim to the empty milk carton, All right? So take it nice and steady, we're going to throw, and try and push it over there. Fantastic. I got another one here. All right, so you can place that one down as well, and it doesn't matter if you haven't got, if you've only got one empty one, you can go back and get that one as well, it doesn't matter. Look, I'm going to try and aim for this one as well, And we're going to push it over there. And, I've got another one. I'm going to place that out, and to start off, we're just going to try and aim to that milk carton. So, your child may have difficulty in aiming for this milk carton if it's quite far away. So we can bring this closer to your child, and we can actually drop the sock onto your chosen target. Okay? So, that's fantastic. We might want to maybe move it slightly forward so you can increase the stretch possibly. So again, to try and aim and just drop onto to that target, there. Absolutely brilliant. And, also, just maybe slightly to an angle, and just a drop, and again, just increase that stretch as well. And that's great, we hit it, we struck it, didn't knock it over, so we can try again, to maybe see how many times it takes to knock the target over. Landed on the top there. Going to go a third time, lucky. Ooh! But you get the idea. Also, to help with the challenges as well, we could actually place two bottles together, so it makes a wider target, and again, that really helps students if they wanted to look at at something that's bigger to aim for. All right, so we got two there to aim for, and again, we could either throw, I'm going to throw this time. Got one of them, which is brilliant. All right, we can maybe, bring them together, join them together, and have another go. And it just helps having that wider target to have something to aim for, there. And again, if we need to, we can bring it closer to us, and again, drop, to knock them over there. All right, so again, a great opportunity there to make the challenge suitable for your child to have some success. For some children, they may need some extra systems in releasing their sock to strike their target. So here, I've got a dinner tray that I'm going to use as a ramp where you can use to slope to slide down the sock to strike your target. From here, what will happen is, you'll place the sock onto onto the tray, and then your child will either place their hand, or grip it with their fingers on top there, or it may be that the adult or helper will help place your child's hand onto the sock. And then, we can decide how much slope we want. So this is about 45 degrees I've got here, but it's entirely up to you. And then your child will then just gradually, with support holding the tray a supporter, will gradually let go of the sock, to strike their target. Here, we need patience. Allow your child time to make the move, to move their fingers, their hand, their wrist, their arm, to knock the skittles over. And it's up to them to make that initial movement. So again, we place it here, and, and again, we're striking the skittles there, or the milk cartoons. All right, so one more go. And you can see that we're sliding them along. And you can set the challenge. It could be to knock them over, or it could be just to strike them, it's entirely up to you. But what's important is that your child makes the initial movement, and we have patience to wait. All right? Pause the video to complete your task. Resume once you're finished. To increase the challenge, We can place the milk carton skittle on the floor, but spread them around a bit. And, so this will give a smaller surface area to aim for, and different angles as well. So it's going to really challenge your child in trying to be successful in striking them. So as we see, we spread them out, and let's try and to aim for them. So again, facing your target area, so get your hips to face the target area if you're able to, and try and throw this. Fantastic, great shot there. And also, face your new target, and aim. Awesome, lovely little shot there. And you can do this standing up as well, if need be. And, finally, trying to aim, and trying to knock away the skittles at different angles. So you can place them at any different angle that would challenge your child. So good luck with that. It's time for your end game! And what we're going to do, is we're going to play a game of knock out! And here you'll need two teams. So here, we've got the red team against the green team. And we're going to place the skittles down there. This works better with more than one skittle per team. I've got a couple of more milk cartons. I've got, to distinguish the colours, what I've got is some coloured yoghourt pots. So I'm going to put green yoghourt pots on those ones there, and some pink yoghourt pots there. So now, we got the pink versus the greens. The aim of the game, quite simple, is, the purple team, they're going to be defending the pink yoghourt pots. So we're going to place those around there, and attacking the green ones. So the aim of the game is to try and knock over the opponent's skittle. So the purple is going to go first. So the purple is going to aim for that one there. Brilliant, so they've knocked over that one, so that is a point for the purples. And now the greens are going to go for the pinks. Okay so you're going to aim, focus. And you can decide. I think if the yoghourt pot falls off, That's absolutely fine. You might want to knock the cartons over. If that's what you want to do, that's absolutely fine. But for this game, we're going to say, that's a good shot, so a point for the green. And now purple again. Going to aim for the green one here. Oh, just missed. So, the green has this shot to win. And the green gets it! So, they get two points, because they get to keep both those skittles. So that's a great game, knock out. you can add tactics, you can be really imaginative where you place your skittles. And the main aim of the game is to try and knock out the opposing team's skittles. So good luck, and have some fun! 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 sports people. Search for local opportunities to play target sports, such as 10 pin bowling, and foot golf. More ideas. Search for and watch a range of target sports. Which one do you like best? Design your own hole or course for foot golf or crazy golf. STEP principal. All of our activities can be adapted using the STEP principle: Space, task, equipment, people. 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 the end of your lesson! I hope you've enjoyed aiming for your targets. Keep practising , keep working hard, and keep aiming for those targets! Share your work with Oak National. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

Target sports & games

Target sports & games

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