Year 2 Health and wellbeing: agility, balance and coordination worksheet

“Quick feet, clever turns” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 PE unit “Health and wellbeing: agility, balance and coordination”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 22 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 7 to 9 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Quick feet, clever turns

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · PE · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can move fast and change direction by twisting my hips on the balls of my feet.

A Look back3 min

1.
Where is the best place to run in a game? Circle the answer.
On a flat, clear floorNear a glass windowOn a wet, muddy slope
2.
What do you do when a grown-up says stop? Circle the answer.
Freeze where you areKeep runningHide behind a cone
3.
How should you land after a jump? Circle the answer.
On both feet, bent kneesOn one heel, straight legsFlat on your back

B Watch me, then you4 min

Zara runs round five cones in the garden. How does she turn quickly? Safety: clear flat space, away from windows, a soft ball, and a grown-up watching.

Watch me

Zara starts on the balls of her feet.

She looks at the next cone.

She twists her hips and runs round it.

Now you

1.
Zara needs to turn fast at a cone. Circle the body part she twists.
Her hipsHer handsHer hair
2.
Which part of the foot helps Zara turn quickly? Circle the answer.
The balls of her feetHer heelsThe sides of her feet

C Your turn8 min

Work on a flat, clear floor, away from windows, with a grown-up watching.

1.
Join each move to the coaching point that helps it.
Turn fast round a coneBe ready to move offLook where you are going
Keep your head upTwist your hipsStay on the balls of your feet
2.
Put the zigzag run in order. Number the steps from 1 to 4.
1. Run to the finish and stop with control
2. Stand on the start line on the balls of your feet
3. Go round it and run to the next cone
4. Run to the first cone and twist your hips
3.
Time three zigzag runs. Shade one bar for each try, in seconds.
4.
Look at your fastest try. Write one thing you will change to turn better next time.

Say it out loud: Which turn felt quickest? What did your hips and feet do?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Four small cones in a loose zigzag on a flat garden path, with a soft ball nearby

Kit says: “The fastest runner in a straight line will always win the zigzag race.”

1.
Is Kit right? Say why in your own words.

E Think deeper4 min

Four small cones on a flat patch of garden, with space to move around them

1.
Make up your own zigzag with four cones. Tell your grown-up one turn that uses your hips.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Quick feet, clever turns · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. On a flat, clear floor If your child picks the window or the slope, ask what could happen if they slip or bump into something. Then ask them to pick the flat, clear floor.

2. Freeze where you are If your child keeps running, practise a stop signal at home. Clap once, and ask your child to freeze at once.

3. On both feet, bent knees If your child picks straight legs, ask them to land softly. Bent knees help the body absorb the landing.

B

1. Her hips If your child circles the hands, ask which part of the body stays low and turns the whole body. Point to the hips.

2. The balls of her feet If your child circles the heels, try a turn on the heels together. Then try one on the balls of the feet. Ask which turn felt quicker.

C

1. Turn fast round a cone → Twist your hips; Be ready to move off → Stay on the balls of your feet; Look where you are going → Keep your head up If your child joins the turn to the head, ask where the hips move when a body turns. Then match the head to looking ahead.

2. 1 Stand on the start line on the balls of your feet · 2 Run to the first cone and twist your hips · 3 Go round it and run to the next cone · 4 Run to the finish and stop with control If your child puts the finish first, ask them to read the steps aloud from the start line. A run always starts before it ends.

3. Look for: three bars shaded or labelled with the times of three timed zigzag runs If your child shades only one bar, ask them to run two more times and fill the other bars. Compare them to see which try was quickest.

4. Look for: one change to the run, such as twisting the hips, staying on the balls of the feet, or looking ahead

D

1. Look for: Kit is wrong: speed in a straight line does not always win, because turning and changing direction well can beat a faster runner If your child says Kit is right, they think speed always wins. Ask whether a quick turner could get past a faster runner in a zigzag.

E

1. Look for: A zigzag of four cones and one turn that twists the hips or uses the balls of the feet

Words to use

Say“Which part of you helped you turn quickly, and how did it feel?”

Instead of“Just run faster, that is all you need to win.”

After the sheet

Lay five shoes or jumpers in a zigzag on a flat, clear floor, away from windows. With a grown-up watching, run it three times, timing each run, and talk about which turn felt quickest.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Steady and in control(with a plan)
Eyes, hands and feet(with a plan)
Around the Circuit(with a plan)
Balance circuit(with a plan)
Coordination circuit at home(with a plan)

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