Developing Physical Health and Well-being through Gymnastic Activity (5-7): A session-by-session approach

by Carroll; Maggie

• ISBN13: 9780415591065
• ISBN10: 0415591066
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-01-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This easy-to-use teacher's guide is a brand new edition of the very popular workbook Movement Education leading to Gymnastics 4-7 .It adopts a session-by-session approach to teaching physical and motor skill development and health and well-being through gymnastics for the 5-7 age range. Fully updated with the most current schemes of work to use at Key Stage 1, it sets out a series of sessions over the three year span, ensuring progression from year to year. It has been updated to incorporate the latest developments of the EYFS, the National Curriculum and the QCDA Programmes of Study and provides teachers with the latest thinking in this very important area of their work.Session-by-session plans outline: learning objectives for every lesson teaching strategies and styles the content of the lesson apparatus needed health and safety issues.The Specific Skills Guide helps you support children in developing the correct technique, and observation and assessment points are explained throughout. Brand new to this edition is coverage of social development, cross-curricular links and activities, explanation and ideas for differentiation and progression, assessment for learning, and assessment of learning.The companion volume, Developing Physical Health and Well-being through Gymnastics Activities 7-11 follows the same format. Together these user-friendly books provide a progressively developing programme of work from the Foundation Stage through to Year 6 for all teachers working with young children.