Teaching Team

Mark Quinn

Ben Lepore

Kale Vagnoni

Term 3 Curriculum

Term 3 Overview 2023

Prep

During Term 3, students will look at Ball Handling and Manipulation as they continue to explore their basic movement and motor skills. Various techniques will be identified and explored with a focus on differing types of passing using different equipment. Students will also start to think about how they will adapt their actions and techniques to align with the equipment or skill they are performing.

Students will be given physical and team-based challenges that will require cooperation, coordination and communication to complete various movement and team-oriented activities. This will include working as a team to navigate outdoor obstacles and courses using the playground facilities as well as mini games that require students to cooperate with their team members to enhance their skills and outcomes. 

Years 1 & 2

During Term 3, students will look at Ball Handling and Manipulation as they continue to explore their basic movement and motor skills. Various throwing techniques will be identified and explored with a focus on differing types of throws and catches for different equipment. Students will also start to think about how they will adapt their actions and techniques to align with the equipment or skill they are performing. 

Students will be given physical and team-based challenges that will require cooperation, coordination and communication to complete various movement and team oriented activities. This will include working as a team to navigate outdoor obstacles and courses using the playground facilities as well as mini games that require students to cooperate with their team members to enhance their skills and outcomes. 

Years 3 – 6

Students will commence Term 3 with a Tee Ball unit where they will focus on the skills of striking, throwing, catching and tracking a moving ball or object as they learn the rules of the sport. 

The focus will then shift to Netball, where students will practice improving their throwing and catching skills, and will explore the positions of the netball court as well as effective strategies and tactics forworking as a team when attacking and defending. This will include guarding and creating space, ball movement and team communication.

Term 3 will finish with a Volleyball unit that will see students focus on learning the skills and rules of Volleyball as well as the positions on a court.

Students will learn the skills of all three sports and then put them together in a match-based setting.