Let's Play
- 4v4 in a small square garden
- Each team has three ‘outfield’ players and one ‘goalkeeper’
- Set up a goal at either end for the goalkeepers to guard
- Game starts with a pass from centre spot – try to score a goal against the other team’s goalkeeper for 1 point
- Goalkeepers can kick, punch or throw the ball to score 2 points
- Goalkeepers can use any part of their body to make a save
- Decide as a group how often you should change the goalkeeper e.g. after every score, after 5 goals, etc.
- Add in your own rules as you are playing – if you don’t think something was fair, stop the game and talk to your team mates and the other team to decide what to do next time it happens
Safety & Organisation
Ensure:
- surface is safe and free from obstructions
- playing areas have large runoff areas between them
- children wait for ball to be thrown back to them if it goes out into another area
- safe, controlled tackling
- soft ball is used e.g. sponge ball, tennis ball or mini football to allow the goalkeepers to kick, punch or throw the ball
- there are zones for wheelchair/frame users as necessary
Opportunities to
- develop control, balance, co-ordination
- develop spatial awareness
- take more responsibility and begin to understand the associated risks
- choose and apply relevant skills showing increasing efficiency and effectiveness
Questions
- How did you ensure the rotation of positions was fair?
- How well did you work as an individual/team?
- How could you improve the way you played as a team?
- How can you score more points?
- How did you feel at the end of the game and why?
- How do you think the other team felt and why?
- How did you feel when you were playing goalkeeper?
- How did you show fair play and good sporting attitudes?
- What else could you do next time to improve this?
- How did you make sure the game was fair?
Changes to the activity
Change the:
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Space
- size of the garden – smaller areas harder to attack, easier to defend and vice versa for a larger area
- size of the goal – bigger goal is harder to defend, smaller goal is easier to defend
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Task
- way points/goals are scored, e.g. add more goals on the sides or the ends of the pitch
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Equipment
- equipment used – use equipment in different ways, use nontraditional equipment including a bell ball
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People
- positions/roles regularly
- number of people in each team – add in a referee to help keep score