Year 1 and 2 Multiskills (Throwing and Catching) Lesson 1

Year 1 and 2 Multi Skills (Throwing and Catching)

Lesson 1

Learning Objective

To handle a range of equipment appropriately.
To pass a range of equipment from one hand to the other without dropping it.

Recap prior key skills and knowledege

First lesson teacher/coach to demonstrate correct throwing and catching techniques.

Underarm throwing- This throwing skills is the most common for KS1 children. This throw allows
children to develop skills to make perceptual judgment on distance, speed and power.

Catching Technique– Two-handed catch is recommended for pupils in KS1.

Rolling Technique– This throwing skills is the most common for KS1 children. This throw allows
children to develop skills to make perceptual judgment on distance, speed and power.

See below for correct throwing and catching techniques.

Warm up – Ball Manipulation

Description:
All children to have one small ball each in their hands.

Traveling around the area with one or two hands on the ball, Set the children a range of ways to
move with the ball in hands, side steps, high knees, skipping, walking, jogging, and sprinting. 2
minutes.

On the teachers/coaches command children will pass the ball from one hand to the other. If they
drop it they pick it up and start again.

Challenge the children to touch parts of their body with the ball while moving, head, shoulders,
nose, back, toes, legs, bum etc… can the children do this while moving??

Teach/coach will challenge the children by changing way to handle the balls. Can children pass
the balls around their body (Hips), bouncy the ball on the floor and attempt to catch, throw the ball
in the air and attempt to catch?

Video to support Activitiy/Unit

Activity 1 – Rolling

This activity will allow children to experience different ways of move with and without a ball, giving them opportunities to explore a range of ways of rolling a ball.
Use tennis balls, dodgeballs, cricket balls or any small ball etc.
Children to practise rolling a ball along the ground to a partner, starting close together (2meters) and gradually moving further apart. “How far apart can you go?” Use floor markers if needed to measure the distance.
Allocate 10/15 minutes for this activity. Teacher/coach to support children by demonstrating correct rolling technique. Challenge more able by encouraging a larger distance or using a larger ball to handle.

Progression

Find/create a line and try to roll the ball along it, can the children keep the ball on the line?
When gathering, can the child with the ball pass it around their body (hips) using both hands passing from right hand to left 2 times and they roll the ball back to partner.
Working in pairs, children practise rolling and stopping a ball back and forth, experimenting with stopping balls travelling at different speeds.
Children to try to roll it faster/slower while still rolling it in a straight line.
Can the children the roll a ball to hit a target i.e cone, blowing pin, partner’s feet etc.

Activity 2 – Gates

In pairs with one ball between 2
Set up 10/12 set of gates depending on space (2 cones, 2 meter apart), putting a floor marker each side of the gate 2 meters away.
Children to travel around the space to find a gate, attempt to roll the ball through it with partner collecting on the other side of the game. one point for each successful roll.
When traveling to a new gate and the child with the ball pass it around their body (hips) using both hands passing from right hand to left and repeating till they get to the game.
Children then pick up the ball and travel to a new gate.
Set a challenge how many points can a team score in 2 minutes.
Allocate 3 minutes for activity, then repeat giving children the opportunity to beat their last score.

Progression

Move the cones from 2m apart to only 1m apart to challenge.
Increase the distance to make the roll longer, can the children adjust the speed to maintain accuracy to get the ball between the targets.

Activity 3 – Target Roll

Split the class into 6 groups, as shown below. Equal numbers in each group if possible.
One ball per team and a hoop in front of their marker/cone.
Set up a large number of targets/items (Cones/bowling pins, bean bags) in the middle of the area for children to roll the ball at to hit.
The children will take it in turns to roll the ball towards the targets in the middle, if they directly hit the target,they run out and collected the hit item and their ball and return it to their teams hoop. If they miss the items they just collect their ball and return it to their group.
Each item in the teams hoop is one point for the team.
Allocate 5mins per game, repeat two times.

Key Knowledge/Teacher questions

Can we demonstrate the correct rolling technique?

What do I look at when rolling a ball (The target).

How many hands should I have on the ball when rolling? (one)

Key Skills

To handle a range of equipment appropriately.
To pass a range of equipment from one hand to the other without dropping it.

Key Vocab

Roll	Manipulation
Throw	Balls
Smooth	Cones
Balance	Target
Control	Aim
Points	Release

Throwing and Catching Techniques

Rolling Technique

This throwing skills is the most common for KS1 children. This throw allows
children to develop skills to make perceptual judgment on distance, speed and power.

- Start by facing the direction you are throwing/rolling
- Hold the throwing/rolling arm straight behind the body.
- Swing the arm forwards to the front of the body with a controlled action, transferring
  the weight from the back foot to the front foot.

Bending the knees and release the ball at a low level with fingers pointing toward the target.

Catching Technique

Two-handed catch is recommended for pupils in KS1.

- Children to bring both hands together to make a bowl.
- Eyes on the object at all times.
- Children to make the bowl action towards the object to attempt to catch.
- Encourage children to stand with feet shoulder width apart to support balance.

Underarm throwing

This throwing skills is the most common for KS1 children. This throw allows
children to develop skills to make perceptual judgment on distance, speed and power.

- Start by facing the direction you are throwing
- Hold the throwing arm straight behind the body.
- Swing the arm forwards to the front of the body with a controlled action, transferring
  the weight from the back foot to the front foot.
- Release the ball at waist height with fingers pointing toward the target.

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