This unit introduces Reception students to fundamental gymnastics through imaginative play and animal movements, building essential body awareness and spatial understanding. The focus is on developing confidence with basic body shapes, balance, and controlled movement whilst establishing crucial safety habits that will underpin all future gymnastics learning. Through progressive skill-building from floor work to apparatus use, students develop the physical literacy and movement vocabulary needed for more complex gymnastics sequences.
This unit introduces Reception students to fundamental gymnastics concepts through playful, safe exploration of body movement and control. The emphasis is on building confidence in basic movement patterns whilst developing essential listening skills and spatial awareness. Through progressive challenges involving jumping, balancing, and apparatus work, students develop body awareness and coordination that forms the foundation for all future physical activity.
This unit introduces Reception students to fundamental gymnastics skills through imaginative storytelling and nature themes. By embedding basic body movements, rolling, balancing, and travelling patterns within engaging narratives about woodland animals and giants, students develop physical literacy whilst nurturing their natural creativity and love of movement.
This unit introduces Reception students to fundamental gymnastics movements through the natural actions of rocking and rolling, building essential body awareness and spatial understanding. The progression from individual exploration to collaborative sequence work develops both physical coordination and social skills in a safe, nurturing environment. Through playful yet structured activities, students gain confidence in controlling their bodies whilst developing the foundational movement vocabulary that underpins all future gymnastics learning.
This unit introduces Reception students to fundamental gymnastics concepts through imaginative play as 'champion gymnasts'. The emphasis is on developing body awareness, spatial understanding, and basic movement vocabulary whilst building confidence in physical expression. Through progressive exploration from individual work to partner activities, students develop essential foundations for future gymnastics learning in a safe, supportive environment.
This unit introduces Reception students to the fundamental gymnastics concept of flight through progressive jumping, bouncing and leaping activities. The focus is on developing body awareness, spatial control and creative expression whilst building confidence in airborne movements. Through structured exploration and creative sequence-making, students develop essential coordination skills that form the foundation for all future gymnastics learning.
This unit introduces Reception students to fundamental gymnastics through playful exploration of body shapes, balance, and movement. The emphasis is on building body awareness, spatial understanding, and safety consciousness while developing confidence with apparatus. Through carefully structured activities, students learn to control their bodies in space, laying essential foundations for future gymnastics skills and physical literacy.
This unit introduces Reception students to the fundamental gymnastics concepts of spatial awareness through the directional language of high, low, over, and under. The focus is on developing body control and confidence while exploring how the body can move in different directions and levels, culminating in apparatus work that challenges spatial understanding in a safe, progressive manner.