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Year 5 - Course Content

Swimming

The children learn:

• Stroke development – Front crawl (emphasis on breathing), Back crawl (emphasis on arm stroke), Breaststroke and Butterfly
• Individual standards – against the clock
• Personal survival (including basic life support – CPR)
• Water Polo
• Swimming for fitness (healthy lifestyle) & Competitive Swimming

In association with the STA International Swimming & Water Safety Standards complete:

• Beaver 1-3
• Kingfisher 1-3
• Seal 1-2
• Water Safety Bronze
• Water Safety Silver
• Advanced Bronze
• Advanced Silver

Health Related Fitness

The children are taught simple concepts of fitness:

• The importance of Warm Up and Cool Down
• Location of major muscles on the body and their function
• Muscles and Movement
• What is Physical Fitness?
• How we can improve certain aspects of our fitness
• How we can measure certain aspects of our fitness
• Target zones (improving cardiovascular fitness/heart health)

Games Skills (including Short Tennis)

Pupils are taught to understand and play small-sided games and simplified versions of recognized competitive team games covering the following types:

• Invasion Games: (e.g. Basketball, Football, Touch Rugby, Uni-Hoc)
• Striking/Fielding Games: (e.g. Cricket, Softball or Rounders)
• Net/Wall Games: (e.g. Short Tennis)

Emphasis is placed on the development of motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination to improve individual skills in sending, receiving, striking and traveling with a ball and in understanding the strategies linked to playing games.

Gymnastics

Pupils are taught to perform a variety of skills from the following skills categories:

• Traveling
• Balancing
• Flight – including vaulting

Emphasis is placed on the aesthetic qualities including body tension and extension, changes in body shape, level, speed and direction of movement.

Pupils practice, refine and repeat increasingly complex movement sequences on the floor and on the apparatus. They work both individually or with a partner and are encouraged to perform to a limited audience.

Movement and Dance

Through teacher direction, the children learn to create or compose simple dance sequences. In response to a range of music and stimuli, pupils are encouraged to explore and experiment with ideas, develop expression, rhythm, and use of imagination and non-verbal communication through movement/dance.

Athletics

Children learn to develop and refine basic techniques in:

• Running e.g. over short distances, over longer distances, in relays
• Throwing e.g. for accuracy and distance
• Jumping e.g. for height and distance

Pupils are encouraged to improve their own individual performances.

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