Skill Based Challenges - Unit Overview

The Striver Lesson Plans for Reception focus on Skill Based Challenges, providing a structured approach to developing key physical skills in young pupils. This unit overview summarises the objectives of the lessons, which are designed to help children work towards achieving their personal best in various motor skills. These include catching, rolling, throwing, kicking, bouncing, and hitting challenges. The lessons are built upon prior knowledge and skills in these areas, offering an opportunity for pupils to further enhance their abilities through a series of targeted challenges.

Each lesson in the unit is structured to support individual, pair, and group challenges, with a consistent format that allows for progression and differentiation. Teaching tips suggest that the lessons are based on a one-hour timeframe, including the time needed for pupils to change, and recommend adjustments if lessons are shorter. Teachers are encouraged to challenge pupils who exceed expectations individually to ensure they continue to progress. The unit includes a Medium Term Plan, which outlines specific learning objectives and success criteria for each lesson, ensuring that by the end of the unit, pupils will have improved their ability to perform tasks involving accuracy, judgment of height, weight, power, and speed, as well as reaching targets and scores in the various skill-based activities.