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

Orienteering, teamwork, map skills, indoor mapping, picture orienteering, control plotting, communication, problem solving

Golf

National curriculum content

• Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Lesson objectives

1. To successfully hit the target when putting and chipping.
2. To develop the drive technique.
3. To develop the techniques of the different shots on more difficult courses.
4. To compete against others applying skills learnt.
5. To discuss, watch and evaluate the professional game.
6. To apply the correct techniques when competing.

What we want children to know

• How to apply both the putting and chipping techniques to competitive games.
• Understanding the relationships between physical activity and its effect on the body.
• Become familiar with golf phrases and the concept of golf.
• How to show control to make accurate shots.
• How much speed and power is required when working to a target.

What skills we want children to develop

• Apply both the putting and chipping techniques to competitive games.
• Show control and control to make accurate shots.
• Begin to develop the driving technique.
• Increase accuracy and distance when practicing the driving technique and participate in driving games.
• Develop an accurate putting technique, chipping for height technique, and driving for distance technique.
• Determine how much speed and power is required when working to a target.
• Compete with other in modified golf games.

Vocabulary

Golf, chipping, putting, target, co-ordination, technique, speed, accuracy