Gymnastics

Gymnastics is renowned as a sport that can improve overall fitness, strength, balance and body control.

Participation in gymnastics classes also provides many additional cognitive and psychological benefits.

These include:

• Social interaction and discipline;
• Improved mental focus and concentration;
• Education and an understanding of physics;
• Flexibility, balance and co-ordination;
• Numerous health benefits.

Pupils will be enabled to:

• extend their body management skills and improve the variety and quality of movement;
• progress from working individually to working in pairs, trios, small groups and whole groups;
• explore, practise and refine a range of movement skills, including travelling, flight, rolling, balancing, transferring weight, including weight on hands, twisting, turning and stretching.