This document outlines a 5 lesson plan for a Year 1 games course. The lessons aim to develop children's skills in sending and receiving objects accurately, choosing and using skills effectively for different games, and recognizing space in games. Each lesson includes a warm up, exploration of skills, development of skills through games/activities, recapping of key points, and cool down. Assessments include peer assessment, observation, questioning, and linking to other subject areas like maths and citizenship.

1. Course title: Games Year: 1
Term: 2
Teacher: Katie and Marc
Lesson no. Learning Activities and Assessment Cross curr. Resources
Topic objective differentiation opportunities links
1 WALT:
That being active is good for
them
To be confident and safe in the
spaces used to play games
To explore and use skills,
actions and ideas individually
and in combination to suit the
game
WILF:
Move fluently, changing
direction and speed easily and
avoiding collisions
Show control and accuracy with
the basic actions for rolling,
underarm throwing
Understand the concept of
tracking and get in line with the
ball to receive it
Warm up: Sharks and Fishes
Explore Next few lessons they will be
learning to send & receives accurately.
Discuss what this means.
Take a beanbag & slide across the floor,
then run after it & pick it up.
Can they vary the distance that the
beanbag travels?
Repeat with a quoit – rolling & retrieving.
Remind children to keep their eyes on the
quoit. Ask children to take a target such
as a small cone & try to slide a beanbag
along the ground to hit the target, explain
that the children need to look at target &
take aim.
Develop
Tell children to work in pairs and put their
targets together so there is a gap in
between. This time they need to slide their
beanbag between the 2 targets.
Ask children to work with a partner,
sliding the BB so it hits their partner’s
feet. Their partner then retrieves the BB
& slides it back. Then work with a
partner to slide a BB between their
Assessment:
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
Maths:
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)
Bean bags
Tags
St. Stephen’s International School
Scheme of Work

2. partner’s legs. The person who slides the
BB then runs behind partner to retrieve.
Swap roles.
Recap Key points of the lesson
Cool down Ask children to sit in a large
circle. Get them to pass a bean bag
around the circle in time to the teacher
counting the beat – 1,2,3,4. When the
teacher calls ‘change direction’ children
pass the beanbag round the other way.
2 WALT:
How to choose and use skills
effectively for particular games
WILF:
Recognise space in their games
and use it to their advantage,
planning where to stand to
make it difficult for opponents.
Warm up: Ask children to find a space
and sit down.
How do their bodies feel – are they cold,
warm, hot?
Is their heart beating slowly or quickly?
Explain that we are going to warm up our
bodies by playing
W.U. Game: Top Gear
Explain to children that in some games the
aim is to pass a ball over a net in order to
score a point. Discuss how a ball is used
in tennis and a shuttlecock in badminton,
show if possible. Tell children that they
are going to try to score points by playing
BB Badminton – but in their game they
will try to slide the BB over their
opponent’s line
Throughout the activities ask the children
how they can be improving. Stop & show
Assessment:
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
Maths:
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)
Bean Bags

3. good examples and get children to
practise if necessary.
Have a competition, where winners play
each other.
Recap the key points
Cool down Get them to pass a bean bag
around the circle in time to the teacher
counting the beat – 1,2,3,4. When the
teacher calls ‘change direction’ children
pass the beanbag round the other ways
3 WALT:
To be confident and safe in the
spaces used to play games
To explore and use skills,
actions and ideas individually
and in combination to suit the
game
WILF: Move fluently, changing
direction and speed easily and
avoiding collisions
Show control and accuracy with
the basic actions for rolling,
underarm throwing
Warm up Sharks and Fishes.
Explore
Get children to choose a large ball and to
roll the ball away then run after it and
pick it up. If children have access to lines
challenge them to roll the ball across the
lines then along the lines. Get them to roll
the ball to a wall or an upturned bench to
retrieve it. Extend this to rolling the ball
to hit a specific target such as a cone.
Remind children to watch the ball at all
times, to roll the ball along the ground, to
run and overtake the ball before trying to
retrieve it and to keep hands close to the
ground. When aiming remind then to look
at the target.
Repeat with a small ball. Ask children to
work with a partner, rolling and returning
the ball while sitting, kneeling and
standing. Challenge children to increase
Assessment:
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
Maths:
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)
Large soft
balls
Small soft
Balls

4. the distance from their partner to make
the task harder. Working in pairs, ask
children to roll a ball against a wall or
upturned bench so that their partner has
to retrieve it on the rebound.
Recap key points covered
Cool down Colour lines, shout a colour,
pupils stand on that colour on the floor of
the gym.
4 WALT:
To be confident and safe in the
spaces used to play games
To explore and use skills,
actions and ideas individually
and in combination to suit the
game
WILF:
Recognise space in their games
and use it to their advantage,
planning where to stand to
make it difficult for opponents.
Use skills in different ways in
different games and try and win
by changing the way they use
skills in response to their
opponents actions
Warm up Numbers Game
Explore Take a bean bag and to practice
throwing it up into the air and catching it
with two hands. Remind them to watch the
bean bag at all times until it is safe in
their hands.
Tell them to draw the bean bag into their
body as they catch it. Challenge children
to throw the bean bag slightly higher or
just in front of them so that they have to
move to catch the bean bag.
How many times can they throw and catch
the bean bag within 30 seconds without
dropping it?
Develop Repeat the activity throwing and
catching the bean bag with one hand then
throwing and catching while they move.
Ask children to take a hoop as well as
their bean bag. Show children how to
Assessment:
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
Maths:
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)
Bean Bag
Hula Hoops

5. throw the bean bag underarm to land in
the hoop. Ask children to practice this. If
they miss the bean bag they should stand
nearer to the hoop and if they get the bean
bag inside the hoop they should move
further away. Challenge children to get
the bean bag in the hoop 10 times.
Children then work with a partner to
throw a bean bag so that it lands at their
partner's feet. This person should then
pick up the bean bag and throw it so that
it lands at the other child's feet. Children
should then throw the bean bag to their
partner who must catch it and then throw
it back.
Recap Key points of the lesson
Cool down Numbers Game
5 WALT:
To be confident and safe in the
spaces used to play games
To explore and use skills,
actions and ideas individually
and in combination to suit the
game
WILF:
Recognise space in their games
and use it to their advantage,
planning where to stand to
make it difficult for opponents.
Use skills in different ways in
Warm up Numbers Game
Explore Take a bean bag and to practice
throwing it up into the air and catching it
with two hands. Remind them to watch the
bean bag at all times until it is safe in
their hands.
Tell them to draw the bean bag into their
body as they catch it. Challenge children
to throw the bean bag slightly higher or
just in front of them so that they have to
move to catch the bean bag.
How many times can they throw and catch
Assessment:
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
Maths:
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)
Bean Bags
Hula Hoops

6. different games and try and win
by changing the way they use
skills in response to their
opponents actions
the bean bag within 30 seconds without
dropping it?
Develop Repeat the activity throwing and
catching the bean bag with one hand then
throwing and catching while they move.
Ask children to take a hoop as well as
their bean bag. Show children how to
throw the bean bag underarm to land in
the hoop. Ask children to practice this. If
they miss the bean bag they should stand
nearer to the hoop and if they get the bean
bag inside the hoop they should move
further away. Challenge children to get
the bean bag in the hoop 10 times.
Children then work with a partner to
throw a bean bag so that it lands at their
partner's feet. This person should then
pick up the bean bag and throw it so that
it lands at the other child's feet. Children
should then throw the bean bag to their
partner who must catch it and then throw
it back.
Recap Key points of the lesson
Cool down Numbers Game
6 WALT:
To be confident and safe in the
spaces used to play games
To explore and use skills,
actions and ideas individually
Warm up Sharks and Fishes
Develop: Take a large ball and throw it
into the air then catch it. Remind them to
keep their eyes on the ball.
Assessment:
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
Maths:
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
Bean Bags
Soft balls

7. and in combination to suit the
game
WILF:
Recognise space in their games
and use it to their advantage,
planning where to stand to
make it difficult for opponents.
Use skills in different ways in
different games and try and win
by changing the way they use
skills in response to their
opponents actions
Can they throw it a little higher each time
and still catch it? Can they throw it up just
in front of them so that they have to move
to catch it? Teach them to reach up with
both hands towards the ball and to cup
their hands around it, then bring it down
towards their chest and hold it tight. Can
they throw the ball up and then let it
bounce before they catch it? How many
times can they let the ball bounce before
they must catch it so that it doesn't stop
bouncing? Can they catch the ball on the
'magic moment' of the bounce? Can they
catch the ball just before it touches the
floor?
Ask children if they can describe the
'magic moment' when bouncing a ball.
Tell children that today we will be
working on throwing and catching. The
aim will be to catch the beanbag before it
touches the floor. Give the children a few
minutes to practice throwing and catching
a beanbag while stationary.
Choose a few children to demonstrate the
throwing and catching. Challenge
children to throw and catch the beanbags
again, varying the height of the throw,
throwing it a little in front of them,
throwing it and catching it while moving.
Ask some children to demonstrate what
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)

8. they did.
Recap Key points
Cool down Numbers game
7 WALT:
To be confident and safe in the
spaces used to play games
To explore and use skills,
actions and ideas individually
and in combination to suit the
game
WILF:
Use skills in different ways in
different games and try and win
by changing the way they use
skills in response to their
opponents actions
Recognise space in their games
and use it to their advantage,
planning where to stand to
make it difficult for opponents
Warm up Numbers game/Letter game
Recap: Give children a number of
different targets towards which they can
aim. Make sure they are different sizes
and different levels. E.g. various sized
cones, skittles, hoops, lines, and shapes on
walls. Emphasise the importance of
looking at the target when taking aim and
following the movement through. Children
could vary the distance to make the task
easier or harder. They could rotate in
groups round a series of targets. Give
them a few minutes to practice aiming at
each. Challenge them to hit the target
three times within the given time.
Game: Lily Pad Bouncers.
Children remain stationary at a hoop and
the ball is passed around the circle by
bouncing it into the next circle. The
person next to the hoop is called the
bouncer and they have to catch the ball
before bouncing it into the next hoop in
the circle (see appendix for instructions).
Cool down Sharks and Fishes
Assessment:
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
Maths:
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)
Hula Hoops
Soft Balls
8 WALT: Warm up Ask children to find a space and Assessment: Maths: Hula Hoops

9. How to choose and use skills
effectively for particular games
To watch, copy and describe
what others are doing
To describe what they are doing
WILF:
Watch others’ movements
carefully
Describe what they have done
or seen others doing
Copy what they see and say why
it is good.
Recognise space in their games
and use it to their advantage,
planning where to stand to
make it difficult for opponents.
sit down. How do their bodies feel –
Are they cold, warm, hot?
Is their heart beating slowly or quickly?
Why do children think it is important to
warm up their bodies?
Tell children that we are going to warm
up our bodies by playing (TOP
Start)Beans:-
Recap: Ask children to work with a
partner and to throw the ball underarm
for their partner to catch. Tell them to
start quite close together and then to
increase the distance. Does this make the
task harder or easier? Remind them that
the catcher must watch the ball at all
times, reaching for the ball, cupping it and
bringing it in towards their chest. The
thrower must throw the ball so that their
partner can catch it. Ask children to vary
the height of the throw.
If there is a wall throw the ball against it
so that it bounces for their partner to
catch. If not use a hoop and bounce the
ball inside the hoop for their partner to
catch.
Challenge children to try to send the ball
to their partner while they are on the
move. What must they remember when
doing this?
Children could then work in groups of five
or six. They stand in a circle and throw
(Peer assessment)
(Observation)
(Q & A)
(Summary)
(scoring)
(splitting groups)
English:
(speaking)
(key words)
(writing)
Citizenship:
(team work)
(communicating
as a group/ind)
(leadership)
Soft Balls

10. the ball across the circle for another child
to catch. Children could choose to catch
the ball while it is still in the air or to let it
bounce first.
Cool down Numbers/Letter Game