Children will work cooperatively with a partner and play a simple competitive group game that involves a simple scoring system.

Remind children of the warm up activity that they learnt during the last lesson - Islands - and let children spend a few minutes playing the game gradually increasing the speed and moving from the gentler to more energetic actions as bodies warm up. The game could be adapted by removing the hoops and having imaginary islands. The number of pirates standing on the imaginary islands could then be safely increased (see teacher factfile for original game).

Introductory Activity and Experimentation
Ask children to take a bean bag or quoit to slide or roll along the floor in different ways. Remind children of skills learnt in last lesson and encourage them to find targets in the work area which they can hit safely, or cross, with the bean bag or quoit - e.g. hitting partner's feet with a bean bag, sliding a bean bag or rolling a quoit across painted lines.

Ask children to choose a ball and find different ways of sending it away from them. Give them a few minutes to experiment and in this time move around the children asking them to describe what they are doing and helping them to improve their technique. Choose a few children to demonstrate what they have been doing and ask others to describe their activities. Try to choose at least one person who rolls the ball.

Skill Building
Tell children that today they will be building on skills learnt in the last lesson by rolling balls. Ask children to choose a large ball if you have enough and to roll the ball away then run after it and pick it up. If children have access to lines challenge them to roll the ball across the lines then along the lines. Get them to roll the ball to a wall or an upturned bench to retrieve it. Extend this to rolling the ball to hit a specific target such as a cone.

Remind children to watch the ball at all times, to roll the ball along the ground, to run and overtake the ball before trying to retrieve it and to keep hands close to the ground. When aiming remind then to look at the target.

Get children to repeat these activities with a small ball. If you do not have enough apparatus for all children to use the same size ball simultaneously let them use a selection of balls at the same time but ensure all children get to use at least two different sized balls.

Ask children to work with a partner, rolling and returning the ball while sitting, kneeling and standing. Challenge children to increase the distance from their partner to make the task harder. Working in pairs ask children to roll a ball against a wall or upturned bench so that their partner has to retrieve it on the rebound.

Concluding Activity
Teach children how to play Human Skittles by choosing a few children to stand in front of the class while another child or the teacher bowls.

Children then work in groups of 5 or 6 to see who can score the most points by 'knocking down' the human skittles (see teacher factfile for instructions).

Cool Down
Ask children to stand perfectly upright like a skittle. Get them to gradually stretch and make their skittle as tall as it can possibly be, then to gradually curl and change their skittle into a ball. Next ask them to stretch and make their skittle as wide as they possibly can and then again gradually curl their skittle into a ball. Repeat a few times then ask them to lay down as though their skittle has been knocked over and just lie still and relax. While they do this remind them of the activities in today's lesson and the skills they have learnt. Ask a child to describe how their body has changed.

Can they roll a ball along the ground and retrieve it?