Mini Athletics Festival - Lesson Plan

In Lesson Six of the Year 1 Athletics unit, titled "Mini Athletics Festival," students are set to engage in a series of modified athletic competitions, focusing on running, jumping, and throwing events. The objectives of the lesson are threefold: to accurately replicate the actions involved in these athletic disciplines, to understand the scoring system for each event, and to cultivate independence, fair play, and teamwork. The resources provided for the lesson include cones, a bench, hoops, and various throwing implements such as bean bags, balls, and quoits, alongside resource cards that outline stretches and festival activities geared towards developing skills like speed, throw, jump, distance, and measure.

The success criteria for the students are clearly laid out, with expectations that they can perform running, jumping, and throwing exercises, adapt techniques to enhance their performance, and participate in competitive play, acknowledging that there will be winners. The lesson begins with a warm-up called "Left, Right, Middle," where students respond to verbal commands to run to designated cones, sharpening their reaction times. The main activity is the Mini Athletics Festival, where students rotate through stations, spending five minutes at each and discussing ways to improve. The cool down is a game of "Hot Potato," where pupils walk around and pass bean bags to each other, incorporating stretches to be held for ten seconds, fostering relaxation and flexibility after the energetic session.