The Primary School Gymnastics Scheme comprises two comprehensive and user-friendly manuals containing 72 lesson plans in 12 units in the Reception and Key Stage 1 manual and 96 lesson plans in 16 units in the Key Stage 2 manual and a CD of music for warm-ups.
These manuals follow the same comprehensive and detailed format of the Val Sabin Primary School Dance, Games and Athletics manuals. They follow the same structure of teaching guide, teaching material and skill-development. The skill development section is particularly comprehensive. With each skill, common faults and remedies are identified, along with safe methods of teaching lead-up skills in a class of 30 children.
All the lessons are planned as part of a progressive and developmental whole-school scheme of work, and allow opportunities for using a range of teaching strategies, individual, pair and group work, independent learning and self and peer assessment.
Each unit has learning objectives, a unit framework, references to the skill section and expected learning outcomes. In common with all the other Val Sabin manuals, it follows National Curriculum requirements, links with Q.C.A. guidance and outcomes and develops the four strands of - aquiring and developing skills, selecting and applying skills tactics and compositional ideas, evaluating and improving performance, and knowledge and understanding of fitness and health.
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