---
title: "Year 5 Dodgeball - Free SOW Unit"
url: https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/units/year-5-dodgeball-147/
description: "Learning outcomes - Develop more complex dodgeball skills, including accurate throwing, dodging using weave and leg lift, snatch catch, and defensive blocking for a teammate. Know more rules for dodgeball, including being able to play using varied rules in conditioned games."
---

# Year 5 Dodgeball

Develop more complex dodgeball skills, including accurate throwing, dodging using weave and leg lift, snatch catch, and defensive blocking for a teammate. Know more rules for dodgeball, including being able to play using varied rules in conditioned games.

## Knowledge Organiser

### Prior Learning

Increased confidence in a range of throwing, catching, blocking and dodging skills such as tunnel catch, duck dodge and blocking for a teammate. Developed team tactics such as a team throw and play to the return line.

### Unit Focus

Develop more complex dodgeball skills, including accurate throwing, dodging using weave and leg lift, snatch catch, and defensive blocking for a teammate. Know more rules for dodgeball, including being able to play using varied rules in conditioned games.

### We are learning...

1. to improve accuracy, aiming at different body areas
2. to use the snatch catch effectively
3. to develop smaller dodging movements like the weave and leg lift
4. to use the block-and-catch tactic
5. to use counter-attacking tactics in dodgeball
6. the hand up rule and using it in a game

### Key Questions

1. When would you use a pick-up and throw in dodgeball
2. When would you use a lower-body weave? Upper body? Leg lift?
3. What happens if your teammate catches a ball you blocked?

### Equipment

Foam dodgeballs, bibs, cones, hoops, benches, mats.

### Vocabulary

Defence, snatch catch, counterattack, weave, conditioned game.

### Rules

**Lines**

* Stay within the court boundaries.
* If you collect a ball off-court, return through your team’s backline.
* Players must return from behind the back line when they have gone to collect a
* Players may leave the court to collect balls (hand must be raised)

### Assessment Overview

**Head** – Apply a range of rules, including rule variations in conditioned games

**Hand** – Attempt a counterattack as part of a team

**Heart** – As a team, work to bring eliminated players back on

### Diagram

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## Lesson Overview

#### Year 5 Dodgeball Lesson 3

1. To develop smaller dodges, such as upper and lower body weaves and leg lifts.
2. To remember and use previous dodging skills, such as ducking and jumping.
3. Explain when and why the weave and leg lift are used.

**We are learning:** to develop smaller dodging movements like the weave and leg lift

**Activity:** 10 – second tag and ‘no catch’ dodgeball

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#### Year 5 Dodgeball Lesson 1

1. Develop the ability to pick up and throw a ball quickly.
2. Apply the pick-up and throw technique to hit an opponent in a game.
3. To reflect on how an effective pick-up improves gameplay.

**We are learning:** to quickly pick up a ball from the ground and throw it accurately.

**Activity:** Assessment for learning

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#### Year 5 Dodgeball Lesson 2

1. Use the snatch catch for catching rapid balls
2. Solidify the main catching rules for dodgeball
3. Use snatch catching skills in a game

**We are learning:** to use the snatch catch effectively

**Activity:** Snatch catch and dodgeball game

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#### Year 5 Dodgeball Lesson 4

1. To practise blocking a ball so a teammate can catch it.
2. To apply the block-and-catch tactic in a game.
3. To understand and explain why blocking for a teammate to catch is a useful strategy in dodgeball.

**We are learning:** to use the block-and-catch tactic

**Activity:** Swamp ball

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#### Year 5 Dodgeball Lesson 5

1. Use speed and quick reactions to throw a ball quickly
2. Apply counter-attacking tactics in dodgeball
3. Discuss the effectiveness of counter-attacking in dodgeball games

**We are learning:** to use counter-attacking tactics in dodgeball

**Activity:** Kickball Dodgeball

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#### Year 5 Dodgeball Lesson 6

1. Apply new skills and use the hand-up rule in a competitive game.
2. Use counterattacking as a tactic during gameplay.
3. Reflect on and discuss how effective different tactics and skills worked in a game.

**We are learning:** the hand up rule and using it in a game

**Activity:** Hand up rule and round robin competition

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## Unit Resources & Videos

- [Year 4 Dodgeball Rules](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/year-4-dodgeball-rules-1787/) — Year 4 · Rules · Dodgeball
- [Dodgeball - Upper body weave](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/dodgeball-upper-body-weave-1937/) — Dodgeball
- [Lower Body Weave](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/lower-body-weave-1772/) — Illustrations · Dodgeball
- [Upper Body Weave](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/upper-body-weave-1793/) — Illustrations · Dodgeball
- [Leg Lift Dodge](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/leg-lift-dodge-1771/) — Illustrations · Dodgeball
- [Dodgeball - Lower Body Weave](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/dodgeball-lower-body-weave-1865/) — Dodgeball