Orientation and the game

Organisation

• Organise your group into three or four teams and create activities for each of them 
• Set up dribbling courses or agility courses, ending with a shot at goal
• Be creative and resourceful and you can include the children in designing the activity
• Try to have more lines and goals, with fewer players in the lines, to reduce waiting time

Ways to make the exercise easier

• Create low-intensity activities

Ways to make the exercise harder

• Create high-intensity activities or races against other teams

Great questions to ask the children

• Can you design a course that will challenge you?
• Can you race against each other to see who is the quickest?

Safety tips

• Create a safe playing area for each team 

Organisation

• Organise teams of three
• Two teams start inside the penalty area, with other teams spread around the outside of the penalty area with balls
• One player at a time randomly "serves" the ball into the penalty area and the two teams compete to score a goal
• After one team scores five goals or after three minutes, change the teams inside the area
• Or you could play that the winning team stays on for up to a maximum of three wins before coming off

Ways to make the exercise easier

• Give one team more players inside the box

 Ways to make the exercise harder

• Require players to score with a one-touch finish

Great questions to ask the children

• Can you try to shoot as early as possible?
• Can you follow up any shots in the hope of a rebound?
• Can you try to deflect a shot so that it becomes your team’s goal?

Safety tips

• Make sure the players are all ready before each new ball is served
• Create a safe playing area 

Organisation

• Organise teams of four: they play 3v3 in the middle and have a roaming goalkeeper who tries to block off three goals
• The attacking team can only score in the empty goals; if a goalkeeper blocks off one, then there must be two empty ones to move to quickly and score
• The goalkeeper runs behind the goals: this indicates the goal is blocked, so the goalie does not have to save shots

Ways to make the exercise easier

• Space the goals further apart

Ways to make the exercise harder

• Reduce the space between the goals and the size of the goals
• Let the goalkeeper play in front of the goals as an extra player and block passes and save shots

Great questions to ask the children

• Can you recognise which goals are available to score in?
• Can you change the direction of play quickly to find the empty goals?
• If you are defending, can you make play predictable and force the opposition in one direction towards a blocked goal?

Safety tips

• Rotate the roaming goalkeeper every three minutes, as it's hard work!
• Create a safe playing area