| Week 1 –Accurate Throwing |
• 20 warm up MABC-2 throw and catches |
Focus your eyes on the target and count to two before you start a smooth throwing action |
Throw at a target using a smooth throwing action. |
| • Watch instructional video for throwing |
| • Target-related activities (throwing bean bags into buckets, throwing balls at cricket stumps, throwing at cut-out faces stuck on a wall). |
| • Started at short distances and increase distance based on individual success |
| • Competitive team games using the same tasks |
| • De-brief and reinforced instructions |
| Week 2 –Effective catching |
• 20 warm up MABC-2 throw and catches. |
Keep your eye on the ball until it comes back into your cupped hands |
Concentrate on the ball and cup your hands together. |
| • Watch instructional video for catching |
| • Catching-related activities (catching large sponge balls and beanbags, catching with a bucket instead of their hands, catching while moving around). |
| • Varied distance and speed of the catch |
| • Competitive team games using the same tasks. |
| • De-brief and reinforced instruction |
| Week 3 –Linking throwing and catching |
• 20 warm up MABC-2 throw and catches |
Questioning on previous instructions and instruction on combining coaching points together |
Questioning on previous instructions and instruction on combining coaching points together. |
| • Watch instructional video linking the throw and catch |
| • Throwing and catching tasks (throwing and catching between participants while walking around, throwing and catching a ball along a chain, rounders with a larger sponge ball where children hit the ball with their hands rather than a bat) |
| Week 4 –Throwing and catching competitive games |
• 20 warm up MABC-2 throw and catches |
Questioning on previous instructions and reiteration of coaching points |
Questioning on previous instructions and reiteration of coaching points |
| • Children chose their favourite games from the sessions and were prompted to remember the related coaching points |
