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Shini Muthukrishnan joins Athletics Coach, Julie Pearson as she runs through some of the skills required in Para athletics.

Skills

The skills learned in these activities are:

Shot Put
Learning the action of pushing (not throwing), using a bean bag to practise. Followed by an accuracy exercise where the children decide where to aim their throw.

Guided Running
Learning how to keep in time and to get quicker and quicker, working in pairs to finesse timing skills. Then wearing an eye shade in a trust exercise, following and giving instructions.

Javelin
Learning how to throw the javelin differently to the shot, turning to the side, holding their arm back and throwing with a swish.

Activities

Shot Put

Push Power
The pupils learn how to put the bean bag on their neck, turn sideways, put their elbows up and bend and push so that they can put power behind their throw.

Moon Craters
Here the pupils practise accuracy in their throws by aiming their beanbags to land in hoops 鈥 the 鈥榤oon craters鈥. They then practise with a weighted ball to push the ball as far as they can.

Guided Running/Assisted Running

This sport is for athletes who are visually impaired. To make the competition fair, everyone wears a blindfold and each athlete has a fully sighted runner to act as a guide running alongside them.

Team Timing
To practise teamwork, the pupils march on the spot, then together in time down the room, then repeat this but more quickly.

Trust Me
The children wear an eye shade or shut their eyes if they don鈥檛 want to wear an eye shade, and their partner guides them down the room.

Javelin

Javelin is a field sport where athletes throw a metal spear as far as they can.

Star Swish
In this activity the pupils practise the javelin throwing movement. With their arm back, they turn sideways, swish and release the bean bag forwards. Then they try with a foam javelin.

Rocket Launch
Using this throwing technique, the children throw the foam javelin over a net as far as they can.

Activity cards

Download and print the activity card for guided running 8-11

Activity card: guided running 8-11

Download and print the activity card for javelin 8-11

Activity card: javelin 8-11

Download and print the activity card for shot put 8-11

Activity card: shot put 8-11

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