Body Control Skills
Gymnastics
•Reception
•6 Lessons
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.
Lessons in This Unit
6 lessons in this unit
Lesson 1
Big Question:
How can our bodies make different shapes like the animals and objects around us?
Key Objectives:
- • To safely use space when moving and balancing
- • To copy and create basic body shapes (tuck, straight, star, pike, straddle)
Lesson 2
Big Question:
How can we use our bodies to create clear shapes whilst moving on different apparatus?
Key Objectives:
- • To be able to create shapes whilst on apparatus
- • To move confidently and safely on different pieces of apparatus
Lesson 3
Big Question:
How can we use different body parts to create strong, still balances?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop balancing skills using different body parts as bases of support
- • To understand how muscle tension helps create stable balances
Lesson 4
Big Question:
How can we jump like different animals and land safely without making a sound?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop jumping and landing safely with control
- • To explore different types of jumps using two feet, one foot transitions
Lesson 5
Big Question:
How can we move our bodies in different rolling shapes whilst staying safe and controlled?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop confidence and control in rocking movements
- • To practise and refine barrel and straight rolling techniques
Lesson 6
Big Question:
How can we link different movements together to create exciting gymnastics sequences?
Key Objectives:
- • To copy and create short sequences linking actions together
- • To handle equipment safely and effectively during gymnastics activities