Body Control & Apparatus Skills
Gymnastics
•Year 5
•8 Lessons
This unit challenges Year 5 students to master sophisticated gymnastic concepts including symmetry, controlled inversions, and synchronized partnership work. The focus shifts from individual skill mastery to collaborative performance quality, building physical competence alongside teamwork and creative expression. Through progressive technical challenges, students develop the strength, body tension, and spatial awareness essential for advanced gymnastics whilst learning to create and critique sequences with partners.
Lessons in This Unit
8 lessons in this unit
Lesson 1
Big Question:
How can we use our bodies to create perfectly balanced shapes that are the same or different on both sides?
Key Objectives:
- • To perform symmetrical and asymmetrical balances with control and body tension
- • To create and perform partner balance sequences
Lesson 2
Big Question:
How can we use momentum and body tension to perform controlled rolls and create flowing sequences with partners?
Key Objectives:
- • Develop and refine straight, forward, straddle and backward rolling techniques
- • Create and perform sequences combining rolls with partner balances
Lesson 3
Big Question:
How can we use momentum and body tension to perform controlled and fluent rolling movements?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop and refine straight, barrel, forward, straddle and backward rolling techniques
- • To demonstrate increasing control and fluency in gymnastic actions
Lesson 4
Big Question:
How can working together in canon and synchronisation transform the impact and quality of our gymnastics sequences?
Key Objectives:
- • To explore different methods of travelling and linking actions in canon and synchronisation
- • To create and perform sequences with partners and small groups using timing principles
Lesson 5
Big Question:
How can we use strength and body tension to master movements where our feet are higher than our head?
Key Objectives:
- • To perform progressions of inverted movements with control and technique
- • To understand how body tension and strength contribute to movement quality
Lesson 6
Big Question:
How can we use strength, balance and body tension to achieve controlled inverted positions?
Key Objectives:
- • To perform progressions of a handstand with increasing control and confidence
- • To create and perform an individual gymnastic sequence incorporating inverted movements
Lesson 7
Big Question:
How can synchronized partnership work create more powerful and engaging gymnastic performances?
Key Objectives:
- • To explore matching and mirroring using actions both on the floor and on apparatus
- • To create and perform partner sequences with synchronized timing
Lesson 8
Big Question:
How can we create dynamic partner sequences that showcase gymnastic relationships and apparatus mastery?
Key Objectives:
- • To create and perform gymnastic sequences using apparatus with a partner
- • To demonstrate understanding of relationships including canon, synchronisation, matching and mirroring