: Bottom Balance
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Approach: Open space Level: Year 4 and year 8 
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Focus: Balancing
Resources: Mat
Questions/instructions:  

Sit on the mark. Sit down with your knees bent in front of you and your feet off the floor.

Keeping your bottom on the floor:
1. Reach upwards as far as you can with every part of your body. Hold to a count of 5 and then return to sitting position.
2. Reach to one side as far as you can with every part of your body. Hold to a count of 5 and then return to sitting position.
3. Reach to the other side as far as you can with every part of your body. Hold to a count of 5 and then return to sitting position.

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% responses
y4
y8
Reaching upwards: Position achieved:
(Arms upstretched, body nearly upright,
feet well off ground in front of face)
very good/excellent
47
48
good
36
38
moderately good
15
12
poor
2
2
held for count of 5
85
87
Reaching to one side: Position achieved:
(Body nearly upright, arms and legs well off ground and all stretched to one side of body)
very good/excellent
7
7
good (one aspect not right)
41
47
moderately good
35
36
poor
17
10
held for count of 5
80
87
Reaching on other side: Position achieved
(Body nearly upright, arms and legs well off
ground and all stretched to other side of body)
very good/excellent
5
8
good (one aspect not right)
36
37
moderately good
36
42
poor
23
13
held for count of 5
79
86
Total score:
11–12
6
8
9–10
31
36
7–8
29
28
5–6
20
20
0–4
14
8
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
Year 4 students scored almost as well as year 8 students. Year 4 Pasifika students had quite low success but that was not true for year 8 Pasifika students.
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