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Target Sports (Part 3): Refining skills

Physical development

﻿Hi everyone, my name is Alistair, and today I'm going to be aiming at targets. For this lesson you will need some balls, a paper and some pens, some socks and juice cartons. If haven't got these items, you can substitute them with other things that you have round the house. 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 that you're 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 going 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. First, we need to make sure we are ready for exercise. I've got the right clothes on. I've got my shorts, my T-shirt, my sports clothes on and I need to get my muscles ready for exercise. So we're going to exercise on the spot today for our warm ups. I'm going to begin with a nice, gentle march. So we're just going to march on the spot, nice and slowly. See if we can really pick those knees up get your arms working and moving. And then we can turn that into a slow jog. So just jogging on the spot, just to get our muscles ready, to get our arms and legs moving. Se could see if we can start to get our knees a bit higher as we're going on the spot there. It's a bit more difficult and we can try and see if we can go really, super fast for a short burst of time. So after three, one, two three, super fast. Fast feet, really, really fast and slow back down to marching on the spot there. Get those knees right high as you can, put your hands out, you can touch your hands with your knees all the way up there and back into a jog. Just jogging on the spot can feel my heart rate is starting to get a bit faster and again, we'll see if we can do those super fast feet, as fast as you possibly can. After three, one, two, three. Fast feet, really fast, keep going, keep going, great work everyone and slow that down again. Just shake off your arms and your legs. And we going to do some stretching. So I put my feet slightly apart. I'm going to stretch all the way up, as high as I can, can I touch the ceiling? And then slowly come down to the floor. If you can't touch the floor, that's fine. And then all the way up, stretch nice and high. And then very slowly, down to the floor. We can stretch up and to the side and down, to the other side and back up and to this side and down and to the other side and back up. Going to see if I can get my neck muscles ready for exercise. So put your hands on your hips, look up, look at the ceiling, and look down to the floor and look to your left, and then look to your right. Loosen our shoulders up, so we're aiming for those targets today. So you need to have really loose shoulders. Put your arms out to the side, and we're going to have some windmill movements, so forward, like a big windmill, making those big circles, coming forward. Put your hands on your hips. Small circles, so we go round very slowly in small circles and the other way. Shake your legs off, pop your toe on the floor, small circles again, loosen your ankles and with the other one. And have a good old shake again. We can practise some of our balancing. So we did some brilliant balance work in our yoga and our movements and balance unit, so we can practise some of those skills. So I'm going to see if I can balance on one leg. So I'm going to put my hands out to help me balance and then lift one leg up. Your arms can help you here to balance yourself out, try the other leg, build that power, so that strength and that balance. Oh, that's more tricky that one. Up we go, again, use our arms to balance there. Super, we can try some balancing on our yoga mat If I come all the way down here. I've got a good balance there so on my knees and my hands. So I've got four points, I can lift my hands up and I've got a three point balance now. I can lift one of my legs up, point your toes your legs nice and straight. Got a good three point balance there. And you can explore that experiment with different balances. It's good to add those things into your warm-up and it's that repetition of skills we've learnt in other sessions in units, that overlearning really does help your child to maintain those skills and those movements. So I think that my muscles are ready for exercise and to aim for our targets. Please pause the video to complete your task. We're going to build on our skills from lesson one in our target unit, by aiming for some skittles. So I've recreated almost like a 10 pin bowling alley here. So I've got my pins that I've used juice cartons for. You could use milk bottles, whatever you have in your home to hand. I've made a bit of an alley here and this makes it slightly easier. I've put my yoga mat quite near to the skittles and that will help because if I'm a bit off target, my ball can bounce into the skittles, off the yoga mat. You could use towels, you could use boxes. So, going to be really thinking about refining our skills from lesson one and how we aim for our targets there. So you could do the standing up. I've got a seat here. So if your child is a wheelchair user, this is the perfect activity and sport for them as well. So I'm going to sit on my chair and think about some tactics here in terms of aiming for those targets. So again, we really want to refine the skills. So you might talk to your child but if we throw the ball high in the air, that might go over our pins. If we bounce the ball, it might bounce over the pins, so really we want to be thinking about rolling our ball towards the target. I've got a large ball here which will make it quite easier. You could progress onto a tennis ball. You could move your chair further back, or your mark where you bowl from further back, to make that more of a challenge for your child. You can also have lots of fun here in keeping score couldn't you? And see who wins out view and your child with a 10 pin bowling match. So the things I'm going to concentrate on, I make sure my body's facing the right direction here. So I've got my toes facing the target. I'm head on to the target and I'm going to practise rolling the ball towards the pins. You could build some anticipation here, so you could have one, two, three, and then roll a ball and release an aim for the pins. So lots of fun to be had here in our bowling alley. So I'm going to try, I'm ready and I'm going to roll the ball towards the pins. Not too bad, so I've got two left now. So you can start to think there, again about some tactics of how your child can aim at the target. So you might want to use your pink ball again. So that's probably best before we progress on to the tennis ball. And see if I can knock those other two pins down. So I have to think of where I aim. They're slightly to the left of my bowling alley. So I'm going to come out and angle here and see if I can knock those remaining two pins down. Nearly, so nine, so not too bad there. So what we could do is we could go back and we could set up our target again, set up our pins ready for our next turn. Again, you could start to include some turn-taking here with your child and again, different ways you can make the activity more difficult by moving further back or by using a smaller ball, like a tennis ball would be really good. So enjoy your game of 10 pin bowling and good luck in aiming for those targets. For our last activity in our targets unit, been really creative, I created my own little, miniature course here. It's an opportunity for your child to get really creative and design their own holes and course, use whatever items you have around the house. I've used my card. I've used some juice cartons again, we're going to try and aim for those targets in a number of different ways. So again, this could be done sitting down or standing up. I'm going to try this seated to start with. I've got my socks and I've made my different holes, my targets to aim for. So I've got my pink card there, I've got a gold triangle there, and I have got my yellow circle behind the cartons. And again, some problem solving here in terms of the direction we need to throw our socks in, the distance, how far they are away. And we've started to introduce some obstacles so we can have some fun here in making it a bit more tricky. Again, think about if your child is a wheelchair user, where you need to position them. So for some young people, it may be appropriate to come right above the target there. And just to drop down onto our target, you know your child best and what's going to work for them with this activity. So, I'm going to try with my socks to see if I can hit our targets there. So the first one, I'm going to aim for our pink square with my socks. So again, making sure I'm facing the right direction. Think about how hard I need to throw our pair of socks. One, two, three, oh yeah. Good shot that time, so on to my next hole. So I'm going to aim for my gold triangle there, for my next hole. So bit harder, it's a bit further away. I need to think about changing direction here. I've got my yoga mat as a bit of a buffer to aim for there. So again, I might have a bit of a higher shot here. So one, two, three, oh nearly there, not quite onto the triangle. And the last one I'm going to aim for, really quite a tricky one here. So I've got to go up and over my barrier there of my juice cartons. And so a bit more power, a bit more force here. It's going to go high and over, hopefully onto our yellow circle there. So see if we can do this one, one, two, three. Oh, just bounced off the cartons and just went a bit further past, but your child will start to refine their movements as they move along. I think I need to go a bit harder, bit shorter. I need to change direction and show some real persistence here. So to move that activity on a stage, we're going to see if we can practise some golf. So we've got a sponge ball here and I've got a little, tiny cricket bat. So I'm going to use as a golf putter. You might have a golf putter, you might want to use just a stick with a piece of card on the bottom and make that yourself. That's absolutely fine. So I'm going to move my socks out of the way there and see how I get on with some golf. Again, really important to remember the safety. If we've got a little bat like this or a putter, to make sure we're always keeping it down and we're aware of who's around us, so really good teaching point there. So I've got my sponge ball on the floor. I'm going to see if I can aim for our pink card. So this needs to be quite a soft shot I think here. So I've come down and just a really soft shot along there, not too far away. And we can finish off and see if we can get it onto the card there. The next hole I'm going to go on to is with our gold triangle. Again, I've designed this hole so the yoga mats lead towards the hole. So it makes it a bit easier for me. So have another shot. Was a bit too hard that time, so I might need to have a softer shot to make sure I get it in this next time. And then again we would go, some problem solving in terms of how do we get to our yellow spot, our final hole. So we might think, right, I need to go around. I need to have a shot to by here and by there. It's not going to be easy to get that in the first time. So let's have a try and see if we can come past. And all the way past over here, and then see if we can get it on to the spot. We can move that on a stage further and start to think about how we play football golf. So again, you might have space in your house to do this. You might want to take this outside into the garden. Again, really encourage your child to design their own holes and their own course, but football golf is where we do the same as we would in golf, but we play football instead. So I have my ball here and I think right, I'm going to kick the ball towards and we'll aim for our yellow hole again. So really nice, soft shot. Oh, I've gone the wrong way there, in towards my triangle. So we'd have to have a play around. I need to come out of there and then I might want to come forward again. And then if I stop the ball now, I've cheated a bit here and then go towards a yellow hole and we've got it on there. So loads of ways we can aim for targets. Can have great fun in doing our golf, we've got our football golf. We can use our socks, loads of ways we can aim for those targets and really build those skills that we've had across this unit with target games and sports, have lots of fun. Pause the video to complete your task. To make this lesson easier, you can make the targets larger and position them closer to your child. You can personalise the warmup and movements to best meet the needs of your child. For example, fewer exercises for a shorter duration of time. To make it harder, look at our masterclass sessions and explore top tips from elite athletes. You could encourage problem solving and place more obstacles in front of the targets. More ideas, search for and watch a range of target sports. Which one do you like best? Look for opportunities to play target sports. For example, 10 pin bowling, in your local community. STEP principle, all of our activities can be adapted using the STEP principle. That's looking at the space, the task, the equipment we use and how people can help us. For example, you could use the balloon with beads in to support visually impaired learners. We can have bigger, brighter resources. You could adapt the space and activity to suit wheelchair users. For example, use slopes and ramps to help guide towards an aim at a target. Great work everyone. Bye I'll see you next time. 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 with the #LearnwithOak. We'd love to see your brilliant work.

Target Sports (Part 3): Refining skills

Target Sports (Part 3): Refining skills

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