Medium Term Plan - Gymnastics - Year 5

The medium-term plan for Gymnastics in Year 5, spanning six lessons, is structured to enhance fundamental gymnastic skills such as turning, rolling, jumping, climbing, balancing, and travelling on hands and feet. The curriculum is designed to encourage students to replicate, adapt, and refine these actions on both the floor and apparatus, integrating changes in shape, speed, and direction within their performances. As part of the learning journey, students are expected to cultivate creativity within pairs or small groups and critically evaluate their movements to facilitate improvement. The plan aims to instil knowledge of gymnastic terminology and techniques, including jumps, travels, balances, and rotations, and to develop a coherent performance by linking these actions together.

The skills-focused approach includes balances, travelling, jumps, rotation, and sequencing, with each lesson building upon the previous one to promote progression. For example, students will start by exploring balances on various body parts and gradually move towards creating individual sequences that incorporate balances, rotation, and travelling with fluency over apparatus. The lessons are designed to develop not only physical skills but also mental capacity, decision-making, problem-solving, and personal development, aligning with British values of respect, tolerance, and teamwork. The impact of the programme is measured by assessing the students' ability to replicate actions with control, link skills together into sequences, and refine their performances. Cross-curricular links include literacy, numeracy, and PSHE, ensuring a holistic educational experience in physical education and health and well-being.