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Practise and refine fundamental movement skills in a variety of movement sequences and situations (ACPMP043)

Elaborations
  • performing activities where locomotor and object control skills are combined to complete a movement, task or challenge
  • performing fundamental movement skills to demonstrate weight transference in different physical activities
  • coordinating kicking with arm movements to move the body through the water
  • exploring and practising different techniques to propel objects towards a target
  • using a surface dive and propelling the body underwater to recover an object
  • performing tumbling routines using rolling actions, incline, weight transfer, flight and balances
  • performing routines incorporating different jumping techniques and connecting movements
General capabilities
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Recreation,  Outdoor education,  Adventure games,  Fundamental movement skills,  Sports

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Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Schools and Early Learning

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Yulunga: riawena

  • TLF-IDM006601

Riawena means ‘fun (sport)’ in the language used by the Aboriginal people of the Oyster Bay area of Tasmania. A number of the games and activities can be conducted as athletic events. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide all Australians with a greater understanding and appreciation ...

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Yulunga: mer kolap

  • TLF-IDM006587

This object-throwing game was observed being played in the Torres Strait on Mer Island in the nineteenth century. More recent versions have been observed. This version of an object-throwing game is a relay event. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide all Australians with a greater understanding ...

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Yulunga: bari barlam bembinge

  • TLF-IDM006600

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Yulunga: gugiyn nahri

  • TLF-IDM006603

The activities outlined are examples of how the games can be modified to be used in a tabloid event. Groups of four to six players over a two to three-minute time period are recommended. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide all Australians with a greater understanding and appreciation ...

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Yulunga: kangaroo

  • TLF-IDM006570

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Yulunga: yulunga

  • TLF-IDM006602

Yulunga means ‘playing’ in the language of the Kamilaroi (Gamori) people from the northwest of New South Wales. The following games and activities may be organised as part of a display of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander games. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide all Australians ...

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Yulunga: wirrwuyu

  • TLF-IDM006591

As in various other cultures, stone skipping (throwing) along a surface of water was played by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. On Dunk Island in Queensland, the throwing of cuttle-fish (krooghar) bones was observed. The bones were thrown along the surface of the water like ‘skipping stones’ and ...

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Yulunga: yiri

  • TLF-IDM006598

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Yulunga: tarnambai

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Yulunga: sanbaing

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