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Dragon Multi-skills

Let's Play

  • Two teams of four
  • Make a ‘three zone’ play area within a ‘garden’
  • One team – attackers trying to score goals/points, one team – defenders trying to stop the other team scoring goals/points
  • Attacking team – three players start behind the end line with the ball and the other player acts as the coach or referee/official
  • Defending team – one defender must stay in each zone, with the other player acting as a coach or referee/official
  • Attacking team pass the ball between themselves, progressing through the zones towards their scoring end; defending team try to intercept the ball to score points for their team
  • Make decisions about how many passes in each zone; how the
    ball can be passed and received; what you can do when you have the ball; what happens if the ball is dropped or goes out of play; how each team scores points/goals; when you change from attackers to defenders, etc.
  • Attacking team has four attempts to score as many goals as they can, then swap teams over

Safety & Organisation

Ensure:

  • the surface is safe and free from obstructions
  • children work in ‘gardens’ and understand the rules for retrieving balls that go into other ‘gardens’
  • non-contact
  • zones for less ambulant or wheelchair users as appropriate

Opportunities to

  • contribute to the rules of the activity and observe the conventions of fair play
  • co-operate in solving problems when working with others
  • work as a team to outwit opponents
  • empathise with others’ experiences and feelings
  • take the role of coach or official
  • start to ask relevant questions in order to improve and make progress

Questions

  • What skills do you need, to be a good attacker/defender?
    – Which skills are you going to practise?
  • How did you communicate as an attacker/defender?
    – How did this help your team?
    – How can you improve your communication?
  • What is the job of the coach/ official?
    – What skills do you need to play these roles?
    – What are you going to do to be more effective in these roles next time?
  • How did you ensure fair play/safety?
  • How could we change the game to help improve our cricket or tennis skills?
  • How did you feel when you thanked the other team for playing?
    – How do you think the other team were feeling?

Changes to the activity

Change the:

  • Space

    • size and shape of the zones, add more zones, add another ball from end when first ball reaches a certain point/zone

  • Task

    • rules for scoring / attacking / defending / changing over teams, e.g. different skills in each zone, same person cannot score twice in a row, etc.

  • Equipment

    • balls, sticks or bats, goals/targets, etc. – for cricket and tennis type activities, hit a soft ball from the end line and score more points the further through the zones the ball travels without going out over the sidelines, etc.

  • People

    • numbers of defenders and attackers in each zone