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Year 8 Physical education Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Athletics: train and perform in a sport education season
- Analysing performance and identifying your best events Study Guide
- Competing and contributing as a united team Study Guide
- Mini Olympic opening ceremony Study Guide
- Officiating, performing and supporting your team Study Guide
- The grand final, relays and medal tables Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in high jump Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in javelin Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in long jump and triple jump Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in middle distance events Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in shot put Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in sprint events Study Guide
- Trials and team selection for a sport education season Study Guide
Dance: crossing continents
Gymnastics jigsaw: technical fluency and group performance analysis
- Accurate replication of rolls Study Guide
- Modifying and teaching routines to others Study Guide
- Performing a whole class choreographed routine Study Guide
- Performing balances of increasing difficulty Study Guide
- Recap jumps and rotations Study Guide
- Small group performances in canon and unison Study Guide
Health and wellbeing: long term benefits of physical activity through circuits
Inclusive sports: teamship, communication and awareness of others
Invasion games: tactics and strategies to outwit opponents in donor sports
- Design set plays to overload the attack Study Guide
- Marking players, marking space and adapting on the fly Study Guide
- Playing smart with the ball at your feet Study Guide
- Playing smart with the ball in your hands Study Guide
- Playing smart with the ball on a stick Study Guide
- Responding to tactical challenges in different scenarios Study Guide
Invasion games: tactics and strategies to outwit opponents through football
- Building a team to perform tactics and strategies together Study Guide
- Movement with the ball: dribbling, receiving and turning at pace Study Guide
- Officiating your own games Study Guide
- Passing and movement off the ball when attacking Study Guide
- Positioning and creating options in attack Study Guide
- Score and add defenders to increase complexity Study Guide
Invasion games: tactics and strategies to outwit through rugby
Net and wall games: technical proficiency and problem solving through badminton
- Effective court movement and strategic thinking through throw badminton Study Guide
- Exploring ways to win the point Study Guide
- Outwitting your opponents to win a point in doubles Study Guide
- Target practice serving challenges Study Guide
- Tournament time with performing and officiating roles in doubles pairings Study Guide
- Underarm and overhead clears to maintain a rally Study Guide
Outdoor adventurous activities: physical and intellectual challenges
Striking and fielding games: competition and performance analysis in cricket
- Batting calls and field placement Study Guide
- Batting shots to outwit the fielders off a T Study Guide
- Develop the overarm bowl with a run up to challenge the batting pair Study Guide
- Outwitting the opposition in competitive pairs games Study Guide
- Overarm bowling from a standing position Study Guide
- Pairs throw ball fielding games Study Guide