Orienteering
National curriculum content
Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
Lesson objectives
- To work cooperatively as part of a team.
- To communicate effectively with others.
- Participate in team games solving problems with others.
- To understand the different points on a map.
- To make a map.
- To take part in an orienteering event.
What we want children to know
- Recognise where you are on a map.
- Demonstrate all the physical skills needed for orienteering: agility, balance and co-ordination.
- Recognise that activities need thinking through and planning.
- Move confidently in different ways, developing agility, balance and co-ordination.
- Participate in competitive orienteering events, following instructions of the game.
- Develop a basic understanding of map reading/making and apply these skills and techniques in games.
- Have knowledge of safety, rules and procedures for taking part in orienteering events.
What skills we want children to develop
- Develop the skills needed to work as a team.
- Demonstrate the physical skills needed for orienteering: agility, balance and co-ordination.
- Know how to read a map and have an understanding of how to use them correctly.
- Create maps of an area and use these to help navigate an area.
- Understand the key features on maps and the importance of detail and accuracy.
- Understand the basic rules of orienteering.
- Know the importance of safety.
Vocabulary
Teamwork, map skills, indoor mapping, picture orienteering, control plotting, communication, problem solving
Tag-Rugby
National curriculum content
- Use running, jumping, throwing, and catching in isolation and in combination.
- Play competitive games, modified where appropriate, and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
- Compare their performances with previous ones, and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
Lesson objectives
- To travel with the ball.
- To keep in a horizontal line with others when running.
- To catch the ball whilst on the move.
- To defend by removing a player’s tag.
- To work together with others.
- To play games against others that require tactics to be used to try score.
What we want children to know
- How to quickly put on their own tag belt on with two tags and then replace the tags; when they are taken from them.
- That in rugby the ball must be either passed in a straight line sideways (flat) or backwards.
- If the ball is passed forwards then this will result in a ‘free pass’ being given to the opposite team.
- The importance of keeping behind the person with the ball in order to receive the pass and will begin to pass on the move with the ball.
- Each time a tackle is made, and the attacking team are re-starting play, the team that are defending must move at least 1 metre back to form a line as quickly as possible and the attacking player who has been tackled must play the ball within 3 seconds (this is part of the rules and is used to keep the game moving at a good pace).
- The defenders are aiming to keep tagging the attackers until a mistake is made resulting in a free pass or possession is lost.
What skills we want children to develop
- To begin to understand and follow the rules of tag rugby.
- Improve decision making skills and choose the right skills that meet the needs of the situation.
- Move in different directions learning to move away from your opponent and keep control of the ball when running.
- Learn how to pass in rugby, catching successfully and improving skills whilst on the move.
- Move forward to attack as part of a team - running in a line.
- To work as part of a team when defending, keeping a line and spreading out.
- Develop attacking and defending skills within tag rugby, successfully scoring tries, tagging opponents, and passing the ball backwards to a teammate.
Vocabulary
Rugby, pass defend, attack, tag, share, mark, dummy