Singapore 2025
Workshop Overview:
In this dynamic and practical one-hour session, you’ll discover how to take fundamental gymnastics shapes and confidently adapt them into a wide range of pair and trio balances. You’ll explore clear progressions that develop strength, stability, trust, and teamwork, while building confidence and competence in partner and group work. As part of the session, you’ll also learn how to structure and create simple partner and trio routines, helping pupils combine balances fluently, work collaboratively, and apply their skills creatively. This workshop provides adaptable teaching strategies and creative activities that can be applied immediately to your gymnastics lessons.
What You’ll Learn:
- Recap of Fundamental Shapes
Refresh your knowledge of key gymnastics shapes and explore how these form the foundation for safe and effective partner and group balances.Trust-Building Warm-Ups
Experience engaging activities that promote trust, communication, and cooperation, preparing pupils to work safely and confidently in pairs and small groups. - Progressive Pair Balances
Learn how to apply fundamental shapes into pair and trio balances using clear progressions that build from simple starting points to more complex, creative balances. Develop key teaching strategies that focus on safe positioning, support roles, stability, and effective teamwork to ensure pupils progress with confidence and control. - Creating Simple Routines
Develop sequences by linking 3 balances together, encouraging creativity, fluency, and collaborative problem-solving—without walking between balances. - Trio Balances
Apply the same fundamental shapes to trio work, developing more complex group balances while maintaining safety, inclusion, and progression. - Fun Group Challenges
Explore creative group pyramids and formations that encourage teamwork, problem-solving, and variety, using different base positions, levels, and shapes to engage pupils of all abilities in safe and enjoyable group balances.
You’ll Leave With:
- A progression framework for teaching pair and trio balances
A bank of trust-building warm-ups and balance challenges - Clear teaching points for safe, successful partner work
- Strategies to support teamwork, cooperation, and creativity
- Practical tools for guiding pupils to create simple partner/group routines
- Renewed confidence to deliver engaging partner gymnastics across all ages and abilities
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Singapore 2025
Singapore 2025
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