Helping Children to Improve Their Gross Motor Skills: The Stepping Stones Curriculum

Description:

Help children with motor coordination difficulties to develop their gross motor skills in a fun way with this guided programme for children and young people aged 5-18. Activity worksheets provide detailed descriptions of how gross motor tasks can be accomplished through incremental stages, culminating in the achievement of the specific task. The step-by-step programme is divided into two sections: * learning basic skills, which includes balance, jumping, climbing, skipping, ball skills, riding a bike and more * developing specific sports skills, which includes football, badminton, basketball, netball, tennis, bowling and more. The Stepping Stones Curriculum will enable adults to chart the progress of a child and allow children to become engaged in mastering motor coordination skills. Supplementary aids such as warm up and cool-down activity sheets, an initial assessment tool and a certificate of achievement will help parents and professionals to deliver the programme effectively at home or at school.

Table of Contents:

1.    The Evidence Base for the Stepping Stones Curriculum

2.    Health and wellbeing

3.    Education

4.    References

5.    Stepping Stones Curriculum Information Sheet

6.    What is Stepping Stones?

7.    Who is the curriculum for?

8.    How do I use the curriculum?

9.    Running a session

10.  Frequently asked questions

11.  Flow chart for school-based curriculums

12.  References

13.  Curriculum Resources Lists

14.  Resources list for Section 1: Learning basic skills

15.  Resources list for Section 2: Developing specific sports skills

16.  Initial Assessment Tool

17.  Purpose

18.  Administration

19.  Interpreting the scores

20.  Choosing the right place to start

21.  Moving on to using the specific sports skills curriculums

22.  Initial Assessment Tool

23.  Choosing your curriculums

24.  Choosing your curriculums

25.  Warm up and Cool down Activities

26.  Guidelines for Using the Warm up and Cool down Activity Sheets

27.  General warm up (five minutes)

28.  Core strengthening warm up (five minutes)

29.  Coordination warm up (five minutes)

30.  General cool down (five minutes)

31.  Home–school communication and progress sheet

32.  Stepping Stones Certificate of Achievement

33.  Stepping Stones Curriculum Sheets

34.  Guidelines for using the Stepping Stones curriculum sheets

35.  Section 1 - Learning Basic Skills

36.  Apparatus Skills

37.  Balance skills

38.  Ball Skills: Throwing and Catching a Small Ball

39.  Bat and Ball Skills

40.  Bike Riding Skills

41.  Climbing Skills

42.  Galloping/Skipping Skills

43.  Hopping Skills

44.  Jumping Skills: Performing a Two-footed (Travelling) Jump

45.  Movement to Music Skills

46.  Scooter Skills

47.  Skipping With a Rope Skills

48.  Swinging Skills

49.  Team Games Skills

50.  Section 2 - Developing Specific Sports Skills

51.  Aquatic Skills 1: Out of Pool Preparations

52.  Aquatic Skills 2: Preparation in the Pool

53.  Aquatic Skills 3: Getting the Face Used to Water Contact

54.  Badminton Skills

55.  Basketball Skills

56.  Bowling Skills

57.  Football Skills

58.  Hockey Skills

59.  Netball Skills

60.  Rugby Skills

61.  Table Tennis Skills

62.  Tennis SKills

63.  Trampolining Skills 1: Learning the Basics

64.  Trampolining Skills 2: Developing Further Skills

65.  Volleyball Skills

66.  Index

67.  Blank Page