Exploring Movement Patterns Through Playful Travel and Balance
Gymnastics
•Nursery
•6 Lessons
This unit introduces Nursery students to fundamental gymnastics movements through imaginative play and apparatus exploration. The focus is on building body awareness, spatial understanding, and movement confidence in a safe, playful environment. Through animal themes, community helper roles, and creative sequencing, students develop essential travelling skills that form the foundation for all future gymnastics learning.
Lessons in This Unit
6 lessons in this unit
Lesson 1
Big Question:
How can we copy our friends' movements and travel safely around different equipment?
Key Objectives:
- • To mirror a friend's movements with increasing accuracy
- • To create a simple sequence of movements with a partner
Lesson 2
Big Question:
How many different ways can we travel around, over, under and through spaces safely?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop confidence in travelling using different body parts and directions
- • To explore balancing on different body parts with control
Lesson 3
Big Question:
How can we use our whole body to jump like different animals and create amazing sequences?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop different types of jumping movements with safe landing techniques
- • To create and perform a simple 3-movement sequence
Lesson 4
Big Question:
How can we use our bodies to move safely through different spaces like animals in the jungle?
Key Objectives:
- • To travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through apparatus
- • To travel, stop and balance with control in curled or stretched shapes
Lesson 5
Big Question:
How can we travel like different people who help us while moving high and low?
Key Objectives:
- • To travel high and low using different pathways with control
- • To link two movements together smoothly
Lesson 6
Big Question:
How can we use our hands and feet together to create amazing travelling movements?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop travelling movements using weight on hands
- • To create interesting starting and finishing positions