Hand Strike: Through the Gates

This Ball Sense Activity is designed to develop children’s ball-handling skills, carrying and striking skills, movement skills relevant to games and applying simple rules to games.

Organisation

• The players work in pairs
• Mark a gate for each pair using 2 markers

Task

• Each child, in turn, strikes the ball through the gate to their partner
• Practise striking both with and without stopping the ball
• Practise using the open hand and the closed fist

Teaching Points

• Place the feet side on to the gate
• Face the non-striking shoulder to the target
• Practise using both the left and right hands