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Spot to Spot

As we apply our skills

Activity
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Dragon Multi-skills

Let's Play

  • One team of four in each ‘garden’
  • Lay out a course from the ‘start spot’ to the ‘finish spot’
  • Complete the journey moving from one ‘spot’ to another without falling off / touching the ground
  • The team must take a precious object with them that they must all touch at some stage – this object could be a bucket of water, a ‘wounded Eagle’, an alien egg (a fit-ball), etc.
  • If they fall off / touch the ground or drop the precious object then they must all start again
  • The team have one extra ‘spot’ that they can take with them to use where necessary during the course

Safety & Organisation

Ensure:

  • the surface is suitable and objects are safe to stand on
  • objects are lifted, carried and placed safely
  • route choices for less ambulant or wheelchair users as appropriate

Opportunities to

  • co-operate with others to solve problems
  • contribute to democratic decision making
  • communicate ideas clearly to others
  • take increasing responsibility for their own learning, and ask relevant questions in order to extend and improve performance
  • begin to refine and adapt previously learned tactics, techniques and skills and apply them in new situations
  • listen carefully to what others say about their work and use their observations to improve the effectiveness and quality of their own and others’ performances

Questions

  • How well did the other group work as a team?
    – How well did they listen to one another?
    – How well did they value each other’s contributions?
    – How well did they encourage one another?
  • How can watching someone else help you improve your teamwork?
  • Did anyone take charge and how did you feel about this?
  • How could you improve your teamwork?
  • What was the most difficult part of the journey and why?
    – How could you make this easier?

Changes to the activity

Change the:

  • Space

    • distance between equipment – longer and harder, shorter and easier
    • environment – steep grass slope, bouldering wall, climbing frame, only allowed to use certain sections, holds, bars, etc. Consider using a safe water environment e.g. a shallow stream

  • Task

    • order in which the stages of the journey are completed by giving numbers to different pieces of equipment
    • number of body parts or the type of body part allowed to touch equipment
    • rules relating to the precious object, e.g. only one person to carry or all must be touching all the time, etc.
    • rules relating to ‘spot’ they take with them, limit number of uses, give penalty points for using, etc.
    • activity to become a timed activity or ‘before the sand runs out’ activity

  • Equipment

    • surface area of equipment
    • course to include caves (parachutes to go under), swamps, crocodile pits, etc.
    • ‘spot’ they take with them, so it becomes more difficult to carry, use, etc.
    • precious object so that it becomes more difficult to manage

  • People

    • number in each team
    • role each person plays in the team
    • course creator – deliverer/leader sets course for group, group set course for themselves, group set course for another group, etc.