Switzerland Zurich 5th Grade Curriculum - Sport

This information is based on the "Lehrplan 21" for the Canton of Zurich, specifically the "Bewegung und Sport" (Movement and Sport) curriculum, which covers grades 3-6 (2nd Cycle).

BS.1 Running, Jumping, Throwing

• A. Running: Students can run quickly, rhythmically, over obstacles, for extended periods, and while orienting themselves. They understand performance-determining factors and how to improve their running. This includes sprinting short distances, running over low hurdles, pacing themselves for longer runs, and understanding the physiological effects of exertion and recovery. They also learn to orient themselves while running, using maps and other aids for navigation in various terrains.
• B. Jumping: Students can perform various jumps for height and distance. They understand performance-determining factors and can realistically assess their abilities. This includes rhythmic jumping with and without equipment (e.g., jump rope, hoops), long jump (including the standing long jump and schrittsprung), and high jump (including the scissors jump and potentially an introduction to the Fosbury Flop). They also learn to observe and provide feedback on jumping techniques.
• C. Throwing: Students can throw objects for distance and understand the relevant performance-determining factors. This includes throwing for distance with both the right and left hand, performing a three-step and five-step approach throw with objects like balls or javelins, and throwing from a spin. They also learn to observe and provide feedback on throwing techniques and may be introduced to shot put.

BS.2 Moving on Apparatus

• A. Basic Movements on Apparatus: Students can confidently perform basic movements such as balancing, rolling, rotating, swinging, jumping, supporting, and climbing. They understand quality criteria and can assist and secure each other. This includes balancing on various surfaces and equipment (e.g., beams, stilts, seesaws), performing rolls and rotations (e.g., forward roll, cartwheel), swinging on rings and bars, jumping from springboards and mini-trampolines, and navigating obstacle courses using various apparatus. They also learn to assess risk, manage fear, and cooperate in group activities.
• B. Flexibility, Strength, and Body Tension: Students can build body tension, support their body, and move their joints through a functional range of motion. They understand how to train flexibility and strength. This includes developing body awareness and control, performing static holds (e.g., planks), and applying body tension dynamically during movements. They also learn training principles for improving flexibility and increasing strength.

BS.3 Performing and Dancing

• A. Body Awareness: Students can perceive their body, control it precisely, and correct their movement execution. This includes developing awareness of different body parts and their positions in space, understanding and following movement instructions, and refining movement quality and posture.
• B. Performing and Creating: Students can express themselves with their bodies and materials, choreograph a movement sequence, and present it. This includes improvising movements to songs, poems, and images, imitating movements and exploring different roles (e.g., pantomime), expressing emotions through movement, and creating and presenting choreographed sequences. They also learn to manipulate objects in various ways (e.g., juggling, manipulating hoops and ribbons).
• C. Dancing: Students can recognize movement patterns, rhythmically design and reproduce movement sequences and dances to music. They treat each other with respect. This includes adapting movements to music (e.g., tempo, range of motion), moving to the beat and rhythm of music, performing dance-specific movements (e.g., turns, jumps), learning different dance styles (e.g., folk dance, street dance, rock 'n' roll), and memorizing and presenting dance choreographies. They also learn to use their body as a means of expression, presentation, and communication.

BS.4 Playing

• A. Movement Games: Students can play, develop, and invent games by making and adhering to agreements together. This includes understanding different roles within games, participating in various games while following the rules, adapting their actions based on changing roles, modifying existing games, recognizing and signaling fair behavior and rule violations, and developing new games. They also learn to constructively address and resolve conflicts during gameplay.
• B. Sport Games: Students can apply technical and tactical action patterns in various sport games. They know the rules, can play independently and fairly, and reflect on emotions. This includes receiving and passing objects (e.g., balls) with hands, feet, and implements, dribbling and using deceptive maneuvers, aiming at targets, understanding and applying tactical concepts (e.g., positioning, passing strategies), and following the rules of various sports (e.g., basketball, handball, soccer, floorball, volleyball, badminton, ultimate). They also learn to manage their emotions and respect opponents and officials.
• C. Combat Games: Students can wrestle skillfully and strategically while adhering to fair play principles. This includes techniques for unbalancing opponents, reacting to opponents' movements, rolling safely to avoid injury, using strength and strategy effectively, respecting opponents, and adhering to rules and rituals.

BS.5 Gliding, Rolling, Riding

Students can glide, roll, and ride on various surfaces responsibly. This includes riding wheeled devices (e.g., scooters, bicycles) safely, navigating obstacles and braking effectively, following traffic rules, gliding on various surfaces (e.g., slides, sleds, skis, snowboards), performing basic movements while gliding (e.g., turning, bending/stretching, tilting), assessing and adapting to different weather and ground conditions, following safety guidelines, and acting responsibly towards nature, others, and themselves.

BS.6 Moving in Water

• A. Swimming: Students can swim safely. They know technical characteristics of different swimming techniques and apply them. This includes moving freely and playing in chest-deep water, applying core swimming elements (breathing, floating, gliding, propulsion), treading water for a minute, swimming 50 meters in a chosen technique, and learning different swimming strokes (e.g., backstroke, breaststroke, crawl). They may also explore other aquatic sports like synchronized swimming or water polo.
• B. Jumping into Water and Diving: Students can jump into the water feet-first and head-first and can dive. This includes jumping into chest-deep water, staying underwater briefly while exhaling, jumping into deep water and submerging completely, opening their eyes underwater and retrieving objects, performing rolls into deep water, diving a short distance, and performing dives from different heights. They also learn to equalize pressure while diving.
• C. Safety in Water: Students can assess a situation in, on, and around water with regard to safety and act responsibly in dangerous situations. This includes identifying water hazards, recognizing and avoiding dangerous situations, following swimming and diving rules, alerting others and calling for help, and applying basic rescue techniques. They also learn about the causes of drowning and how to act responsibly towards themselves and others in aquatic environments.