Year 6 Parkour: developing confidence and creative movement worksheet

“Vaulting with control” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 PE unit “Parkour: developing confidence and creative movement”, for children aged 10 to 11, 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 31 to 36 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Vaulting with control

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · PE · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can travel over a low obstacle using the correct opposite hand and foot pattern.

A Look back3 min

1.
What should happen first in a PE lesson? Circle one.
warm upcool downsprint flat out
2.
Which place is safest for practising a vault at home? Circle one.
a clear space away from windowsnext to a glass dooron a wet, slippery floor
3.
Put these lesson steps in order. Write 1, 2 and 3 in the boxes.
1. Cool down slowly
2. Practise the skill
3. Warm up the body

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ana wants to try a step vault over a soft cushion at home. A grown-up is watching and the floor is clear.

Watch me

The right hand goes down on the cushion first.

The left foot comes up onto the cushion, the opposite foot.

The right foot then steps over and Ana lands softly.

Now you

1.
Now the left hand goes down first. Which foot comes up? Circle one.
right footleft foot
2.
Jo's right foot is the one that steps over at the end. Which foot came up onto the cushion first? Circle one.
left footright foot

C Your turn8 min

Clear your space and put a soft cushion or rolled towel on the floor. The questions call it the box. Keep a grown-up watching. Work slowly.

1.
Do three slow step vaults. Colour the bar for each try that used the opposite hand and foot. Leave the other bars blank.
2.
Number these step vault actions 1 to 4 in the boxes.
1. Land softly on the far side
2. Place your right hand on the box
3. Lift your right foot and step over
4. Bring your left foot up onto it
3.
Ben keeps using the same hand and foot. Which coaching point fixes this? Circle one.
Put the opposite hand and foot on the boxLook at your feet onlyHold your breath to stay still
4.
Draw a line from each skill to its coaching point.
Step vaultLazy vaultResilience
Try again slowly after a wobbleUse one hand at a time while the legs swingOpposite hand and foot go on the box

Say it out loud: What changed between your first try and your last try? Did the hand and foot stay opposite each time?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Mia says: “If I put my right hand down, my right foot comes up onto the box.”

1.
Is Mia right? Circle one.
No, the foot should be oppositeYes, the same side is right

E Think deeper4 min

Think about why slow, correct tries can help more than fast, messy ones.

1.
Explain in your own words why repeating slow, correct tries helps more than fast, messy ones.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Vaulting with control · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. warm up If your child picks cool down, ask which part comes at the end. Point to the chain and say the warm up goes at the start to get the body ready.

2. a clear space away from windows If your child picks the glass door, ask what could happen if they slipped. Then talk through the clear-space checklist together.

3. 1 Warm up the body · 2 Practise the skill · 3 Cool down slowly If your child puts cool down first, ask what the body needs before hard work. Warm up comes first so muscles are ready.

B

1. right foot If your child circles left foot, they have put the same side together. Ask them to say opposite hand and opposite foot out loud.

2. left foot If your child circles right foot, remind them the right foot steps over last, so a different foot must come up first. That is the left foot.

C

1. Look for: A bar coloured for each try that used the opposite hand and foot, and blank bars for the rest. Zero to three coloured bars are all fine.

2. 1 Place your right hand on the box · 2 Bring your left foot up onto it · 3 Lift your right foot and step over · 4 Land softly on the far side If your child puts landing first, say the vault has to get over the box before landing. Start with the hand going down.

3. Put the opposite hand and foot on the box If your child picks hold your breath, explain that breathing helps control. The fix for the pattern is the opposite hand and foot.

4. Step vault → Opposite hand and foot go on the box; Lazy vault → Use one hand at a time while the legs swing; Resilience → Try again slowly after a wobble If your child joins lazy vault to the opposite hand and foot, say the step vault uses that pattern. The lazy vault uses one hand at a time.

D

1. No, the foot should be opposite If your child circles yes, they think the same side goes together. Ask them to put a right hand down, then say which foot must lift in a step vault.

E

1. Look for: Says slow correct tries teach the right hand and foot pattern, and speed comes once it is steady.

Words to use

Say“Show me which hand goes down first. Which foot comes up?”

Instead of“Just go faster, you will get it.”

After the sheet

Roll up a towel and put it on the carpet. Ask your child to do five slow step vaults, then swap sides. Watch the whole time and count the correct tries together.

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:

Controlled jumps and landings(with a plan)
Balance on a Line(with a plan)
Spinning with eyes first(with a plan)
Using walls to rise(with a plan)
Route that flows(with a plan)

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