Orienteering

National curriculum content

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

Lesson objectives

1. To build confidence during team activities.
2. To work within your team, communicating, trusting, and valuing each other.
3. To plan strategies to complete tasks.
4. To develop map reading skills and confidence.
5. To develop map building skills.
6. To complete an orienteering event.

What we want children to know

• How to understand relevant techniques to navigate to and from control points.
• How to understand elements and scaling confidently.
• Identify what they have done well and adapt plans for future challenges.
• How to plan strategies to complete tasks.
• How to orientate themselves and map correctly keeping track of their position with increasing accuracy.
• How to make a map with symbols and legend and begin to understand scale.

What skills we want children to develop

• Choose sensible skills and approaches for the challenge.
• Work within a team trusting and valuing each other.
• Develop communication skills and use these skills to achieve success.
• Develop map reading and map building skills.
• Develop physical fitness and be able to describe its importance in orienteering.
• Build confidence during team activities.

Vocabulary

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

• Compare and evaluate other performances.
• Begin to develop the driving technique.
• Increase accuracy and distance when practicing the driving technique.
• Develop an accurate putting technique, chipping for height technique, and driving for distance technique.

Vocabulary

Golf, chipping, putting, target, co-ordination, technique, speed, accuracy, power, driving technique, tick tock technique.