: Leap
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Approach: Open space Level: Year 4 and year 8 
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Focus: Jumping
Resources: Floor plan
Questions/instructions:

YEAR 4:
Try to leap over the 1.5 metre mark.

YEAR 8:
Try to leap over the 2 metre mark.

• Run up to the mark.
• Take off on one foot and land on the other.
• Stop and stand still when you have landed.
• Have three goes - the first is a
practise leap.

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% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8
took off from one foot, landed on other
88 (70)
88 (84)
good distance (e.g. cleared second line)
49 (50)
46 (46)
Technique:
(legs straightened during flight; arms moved in opposition to legs; controlled landing without loss of balance.)
very good/excellent
18 (9)
20 (20)
good
34 (38)
36 (37)
fair
40 (36)
32 (32)
poor
8 (17)
12 (11)
Total score:
5
17 (10)
19 (20)
4
24 (22)
19 (16)
3
16 (21)
23 (24)
2
31 (26)
27 (26)
0–1
12 (21)
12 (14)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4

Year 8

Commentary:
Note that the target distance was 1.5 metres for year 4 students and 2.0 metres for year 8 students, so progress from year 4 to year 8 can only be measured fairly for technique. Pasifika students scored lower than the other groups at year 8 level. There was little change between 2002 and 2006.
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