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Cotmanhay Junior School

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Year 4 Orienteering and Tag-Rugby

Orienteering

National curriculum content

Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team

 

Lesson objectives

  1. To work cooperatively as part of a team.
  2. To communicate effectively with others.
  3. Participate in team games solving problems with others.
  4. To understand the different points on a map.
  5. To make a map.
  6. 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

  1. To travel with the ball.
  2. To keep in a horizontal line with others when running.
  3. To catch the ball whilst on the move.
  4. To defend by removing a player’s tag.
  5. To work together with others.
  6. 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

 

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