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GymnasticsVirtual Competitions

Who for?Year 1/2 classes

Where?Indoors (school hall or gym), Outdoors (on flat area using mats)

How to get involved?1. Familiarise yourself with all the Key Steps 1 Body

Management and Floor Exercise skills & coaching points (see back of resource)

2. Allow pupils to practice each of the skills3. Refer to coaching points for each skill to help pupils

improve4. Split pupils into groups to produce their own floor

routine containing compulsory and optional skills5. Film each group’s routine *Ensure that schools’

photo & video consent policy is followed6. Upload videos to the Norfolk School Games website

to enter (www.norfolkschoolgames.co.uk/virtualcompetitions)

Equipment Needed• Large floor area• Gymnastics mats• Tablet, video camera

Sports LeadershipThink about how pupils could be used to help staff run the competition. What roles could they help with?

COVID-19 SafetyThe Norfolk School Games virtual competitions should be completed in accordance with your schools COVID-19 PE policy.

SafeguardingPlease note that the virtual competitions are covered by the Norfolk School Games safeguarding documents and policies (www.norfolkschoolgames.co.uk/information).

When filming dances of pupils please ensure that your school photo/video consent policy is followed at all times. No videos submitted as entries into the virtual competitions will be shared publicly. They will only be viewed by the competition organisers and judges.

School Games ValuesDuring each of the competitions pupils are challenged to demonstrate the School Games values;

• Determination - Determination is about the journey you go on to push yourself and achieve your dreams. Have the mental strength and self discipline to overcome obstacles, commit to your goals and keep working everyday to become the very best you can be. Don't hold back!

• Passion - Giving it 100 percent. Putting your heart and soul into the game and never giving up. Passion makes you enter the race and passion makes you finish it.

• Respect - Respect for the referee, for the opposition, for your team mates, for yourself and for the game. Accepting victory and defeat with grace, treating others politely and with understanding. Respect everyday, for every sport and everyone.

• Honesty - Honesty with others and with yourself. Having the courage to do the right thing and what you know is right. Let the best person win, not the best cheat.

• Self Belief - You've got to believe to achieve. Have the self belief and confidence to succeed and reach your personal best.

• Teamwork - Treating everybody equally, supporting each other and working together to achieve at your very best level. Celebrate each others successes and be a positive team player.

Challenge – Floor Sequence

Instructions• Pupils of all abilities can take part in the competition• Pupils should be split into groups of between 4-8 pupils• Groups are challenged to create a group floor sequence made up of a range of skills to music. • Each sequence should last between 1 minute and 1minute 30 seconds• Routines should include a minimum of 10 skills - 4 compulsory skills and 6 optional skills (see below).

Compulsory Skills (All 4 elements must be included)1. Stretched jump and landing (Step 1-Floor Exercise No.20-22)2. One foot stand, hold for 3 seconds (Step 1-Floor exercise No.18-19)3. Rocking on back, 3 times to stand (Step 1-Floor exercise No.12-14)4. Straddle sit, hold for 3 seconds (Step 1-Body Management No.4)

Optional Skills (Choose 2 skills from each column)

• Each group’s sequence should be filmed and saved as a video file. *Please ensure that your school’s photo & video consent policy is followed.

• Videos will not be shared or displayed publicly and will be deleted following judging.

Virtual CompetitionsGymnastics

Column A Column B Column CSide to side rebound jumps, x 10 (Step 1-Body Management No.1)

Tucked dish, hold for 3 seconds (Step 1-Body Management No.2)

Right Splits, Box Splits orLeft Splits, hold for 3 seconds

(Step 1-Body Management No.7)

Broad jump


Back support, hold for 3 seconds


Shoulder Flexibility, hold for 3 seconds


Step turn

(Step 1-Floor Exercise No.15-17)

Arch hold, for 3 seconds


3/4 Forward Roll

(Step 1-Floor Exercise No.1-5)

Front Support, hold for 3 seconds


Front Support, hold for 3 seconds



How to enter

Videos should be uploaded to the Norfolk School Games website to be entered into the virtual competition. Deadline for entries is 5pm on Friday 11th December

Scoring

Video will be judged by a team of gymnastic coaches/judgesThe routine is marked on the following criteria –

1. Performance of Skills (10 points)• Skills to be performed in a technically correct manner• Demonstration of good posture• Good ‘amplitude’ (really stretching) in every movement• Linking of skills and movement

2. Variation of Group Formations & Levels (10 points)• Changes in group formation• Changes in direction• Changes in levels

3. Team Synchronisation (10 points)• Concentrating on consistency of movement in formations of the group throughout the routine, and the timing• Good use of floor area

4. Overall Presentation of Routine (10 points)• Composition of Floor Sequence• All ‘required elements’ to be distributed throughout sequence• Good pace, flow & control in each of the elements & links to next movements• Changes of speed, rhythm & tempo• Demonstration of flair, artistry, style & elegance

An overall score out of 40 will be awarded.

Download a Certificate

Schools can download and print a Participation Certificate for each pupil that has taken part. They can also download a Sportsmanship Award Certificate for pupils who have demonstrated the School Games Values whilst participating in the virtual competitions. To download certificates visit www.norfolkschoolgames.co.uk/virtualcompetitions.


Body Management

Images and resources courtesy of British Gymnastics


How to improve Body Management

1 Rebound jumps x 10

Skill Coaching PointsNumbers

Try to get a rhythm going. Do not bend knees too much or you will not be able to rebound immediately from the floor and this will result in 10 separate jumps rather than continuous rebound jumps. Keep feet together and do not travel forwards

2 Tucked dishKeep lower back pressed firmly into the floor, squeeze stomach muscles and keep chin on chest

3 Back supportPush hips up and squeeze bottom tightly. Keep fingers facing your toes and head in a neutral position

4 Straddle sitBack straight, toes pointed, knees pressed into the floor. Aim your little toes towards the floor not your big toes. Keep your knees facing up towards the ceiling

5 ArchKeep legs together and arms shoulder width apart. Squeeze bottom and keep head in a neutral position

6 Front support Try to make a straight line from head to toes. Ensure arms are supporting the body vertically under shoulders, fingers facing forwards. Keep head in a neutral position. Squeeze stomach and bottom muscles

7 Splits x 3 In right and left leg splits ensure hips and shoulders are square and level, keep front leg straight. Keep both legs straight in side (box) splits

8 Shoulder flexibility Maintain good body posture with straight back whilst taking arms up to ears. See how far behind your ears you can take your arms keeping them shoulder width apart

9 Broad jump Take arms back behind you before take off to enable them to swing through giving extra length to your jump. Keep feet shoulder width apart. Push through feet and extend legs fully. See how far you can jump. Bend knees on landing (no more than 90 degrees)


Floor Exercise

(Sequence performed on a strip of mats approximately 3 x 2 metres)

Images and resources courtesy of British Gymnastics


How to improve the Floor Exercise

Skill Coaching PointsNumbers

1,2 StandingShow good posture, abdomen tight, rib cage lifted. Legs straight and together

3 Crouch tosupported tuck

Keep legs together, weight equally on hands and feet, back rounded

4,5 3/4 Forward rollBring chin to chest and round spine, use hands to support the body, lift hips up by straightening the legs to begin the forward rotation. Make floor contact with shoulders/top of the back not the head/neck, roll progessively through the spine

6,7,8 Teady bear roll

Legs straight and apart, reach forward, hands may grasp calves, feet turned out and pointed. Little toe, nearest the floor, roll sideways onto one shoulder, then roll across back and onto the other shoulder and return to identical sitting position (facing the opposite direction) with straight back

9,10,11 Back supportArms shoulder width apart, fingers facing forward towards toes, push hips up and tighten bottom, create upward diagonal line from toes to head, keep arms perpendicular to floor, squeeze straight legs together

12,13,14 Rocking on backTuck in tight, hands am be used to hold knees to chest when learning rocking skill. Keep back rounded. Take arms forward and up when rocking to stand without putting them on the floor

15,16,17 Step turnKeep body vertical, step back in line and bring arms down simultaneously. Maintain good posture

18,19 One foot stand

Transfer weight onto supporting leg before lifting the other leg up. Keep weight over front of supporting foot, toes of lifted leg level with knee I so that upper leg is at least horizontal and toes pointed, keep arms straight at shoulder height and parallel to floor, maintain upper body posture with head up, hold 2 seconds

20,21,22 Stretched jumpand landing

Swing arms forwards and upwards overhead, push through feet to extend entire body in air, land on both feet in plié with a bend to cushion landing, keep the chest held high and relax shoulders, hold the landing position still before standing to finish

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