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Badminton – UKS2 – PE End Points

National Curriculum Aims - Key Stage 2

Pupils should continue to apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They should develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and sports and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination.
  • Play competitive games, modified where appropriate (for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis), and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
  • Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance (for example, through athletics and gymnastics).
  • Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
  • Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
  • Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

By the end of Year 5 pupils should be able to consistently display the following and by the end of Year 6 should master:

Skills

  • Grip a racket, keeping the racket head below waist height when striking a serve.
  • Perform both forehand and backhand serve with accuracy and serving long and short
  • Demonstrate a split step and understand its use and chasse into the net to retrieve shots
  • Know how to assume the ‘ready position’

Knowledge

  • Know where to stand and how to position the body to serve
  • Know a variety of available shots and when best to play certain ones
  • Usually make the right shot selection to move opponent around the court and target their weaknesses
  • Using different footwork patterns to move effectively and efficiently around court

Competition

  • Understand the rules and their application to be able to umpire and keep score in a game
  • Compete in an intra-school badminton tournament
  • Evaluate the work of others using correct technical language.
  • Reflect and recognise success in self and others