Activity
Grand March
Skill: Fundamental Movement Skills
Sports: Locomotor skills
Technique: Walking
Class: Class 2
Skill: Fundamental Movement Skills
Sports: Locomotor skills
Technique: Walking
Class: Nursery
Skill: Fundamental Movement Skills
Sports: Locomotor skills
Technique: Walking
Class: KG
Skill: Fundamental Movement Skills
Sports: Locomotor skills
Technique: Walking
Class: Pre Nursery
Skill: Fundamental Movement Skills
Sports: Locomotor skills
Technique: Walking
Class: LKG
Skill: Fundamental Movement Skills
Sports: Locomotor skills
Technique: Walking
Class: UKG
Skill: Fundamental Movement Skills
Sports: Locomotor skills
Technique: Walking
Grand March
Learning Outcomes
Walking to a rhythm and working with others (relationships).
Description Of Activity
Caller: Come down the centre in twos. Each child marches to meet their partner at the end line. As a pair meets, they turn and march down the centre of the area to the baseline. Caller: Two right and two left. The first pair turns to the right, the second to the left, and so on. Caller: Come down the centre in fours. When the two lead pairs meet at the end line, they walk four abreast down the centre.
Caller: Four right and four left. Children divide again, with four children to the right and four to the left.
Come down the centre in eights. When lines of four meet again at the end line, they join together to form a line of eight abreast.
Work in fours: Come down the centre in fours, separate into pairs, form arches or go over and under.
Equipment/Material Required
- Marching music.
- A denied hard or grass area with an end line and a baseline.
- Children in pairs: partners stand at opposite sides of the area, facing the end line. A caller stands on the baseline.