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Dragon Multi-skills

Let's Play

  • Eight children in each ‘garden’
  • Two children as taggers, six children as dodgers trying to avoid having their ‘tail’ taken
  • Taggers chase dodgers and, when close enough, take tails from dodgers
  • Dodgers who have lost their tails stay in to try and confuse the taggers by acting as ‘dummy runners’
  • Taggers keep chasing until either they have all the tails or time is up
  • All children to act as a tagger over time

Safety & Organisation

Ensure:

  • surface is safe and free from obstructions
  • the children stay within their ‘garden’
  • large runoff areas in between ‘gardens’
  • zones for less ambulant or wheelchair users as appropriate

Opportunities to

  • develop agility, balance and co-ordination
  • develop dodging and chasing skills
  • develop strategies and tactics
  • work with a partner to outwit opponents
  • sustain activity over appropriate periods of time
  • describe how exercise affects the body and give reasons why daily physical activity is good for them

Questions

  • What did you feel like when you were a tagger/dodger?
  • What did you do to avoid your tail being taken?
    – What else could you do to avoid the taggers?
  • Did you talk to the other tagger/dodgers?
    – How did/could this communication help you to be more successful?
  • What skills are you going to practise to help you be more successful at this activity?
  • Why are activities like these important to your health?
  • Did you make any mistakes or feel like you were struggling at any time?
  • Why is it important that you make mistakes?
  • What is the best thing you can do when you are struggling?

Changes to the activity

Change the:

  • Space

    • space to include a safe zone that dodgers can enter for 5 seconds

  • Task

    • way dodgers and taggers can travel, e.g. skipping, sidestepping, crab, scorpion, crawling soldiers, foxes, bunnies, etc. or add in a ball – dodgers must throw and catch, or dribble with feet, etc.
    • way the dodgers are tagged, e.g. use a ball to touch on back or thrown at legs
    • activity the dodgers do on being tagged, e.g. when caught dodgers must stand stuck in the mud, to be freed another dodger must perform a tuck jump in front of the stuck dodger or receive a ball from them

  • Equipment

    • balls or implements used when tagging or dodging
    • way the tails are attached, e.g. to a wheelchair

  • People

    • number of taggers/dodgers