Following are core tasks the children could be asked to carry out.
Task 1
With a partner, create and perform a pair sequence on the floor lasting about one minute. Make sure that you use skills and ideas from this unit. Your sequence must:
- include at least six different actions
- include at least four balances (some of which must be upside-down)
- show how you and your partner relate your own actions and balances to each other
There must not be any physical contact between you and your partner.
Adaptations and variations on the task
Ask the children to:
- make their sequence longer, eg include more balances, body shapes, and/or ways of travelling (this will make the task harder)
- make their sequence shorter
- include specific actions or agilities that are more difficult (for the more able)
- work with some support or help (for the less able)
- vary their sequence by changing the order of shapes, or ways of travelling
- perform their sequence using different levels and changes of speed, or changes of speed and direction
- fit short phrases of action to music
Task 2
Using the ideas and actions that you used in your pairs sequence, join with another pair and combine the two sequences to produce a group sequence either on the floor or using apparatus. Make sure you plan for pathways, eg towards, away, parallel; relationships, eg linked, using some physical support, separate, symmetrical, asymmetrical; and timing, eg matched and mirrored, canon, unison.
Adaptations and variations on the task
Ask the children to:
- find a way to perform the same sequence using different apparatus, or a combination of floor and apparatus
- work in larger or smaller groups, to make the task harder or easier
- include canon, matching, or a change of partners
- perform their sequence with a different emphasis, eg stretched shapes and movements that involve curling actions
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