This unit explores the scientific principles of force, weight distribution and trust through advanced partner gymnastics. Students progress from individual body control to sophisticated collaborative balances, discovering how two or more bodies can create shapes impossible alone. Through systematic exploration of counter-balance and counter-tension, students develop physical literacy alongside essential partnership skills of communication, trust and synchronisation.
This unit challenges Year 8 students to master the technical demands of apparatus work whilst developing the creativity and compositional skills needed for effective performance. The focus shifts from isolated skills to seamless integration, where students learn to combine trampette, vault, and apparatus transitions into cohesive routines that balance precision with artistic expression. This unit bridges foundational gymnastics and performance-level work, preparing students for GCSE-level composition and assessment.
This unit develops students' ability to generate, control and aesthetically shape their body during flight phases in gymnastics, progressing from individual technical mastery to collaborative choreography. The focus shifts from understanding the biomechanics of take-off and elevation to creating expressive, synchronised group sequences. Through systematic skill-building and peer evaluation, students develop both physical competence and the analytical vocabulary needed to refine performance.
This unit challenges Year 8 students to move beyond individual skill execution and develop sophisticated group choreography that combines synchronisation, spatial awareness, and artistic expression. Through systematic exploration of core gymnastics actions - rolling, jumping, spinning, and weight on hands - students learn how individual movements can be woven together using unison, canon, and contrasting dynamics to create visually compelling performances. The focus shifts from personal achievement to collective artistry, developing both physical control and the collaborative skills essential for ensemble work.