Year 1 - Physical education
Partner activities: playing against each other
Outdoor adventurous activities: working with others
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore how to work with a partner and then within a team. Pupils will learn the importance of turn taking, fair play, following rules, and how to adjust a game so that everyone feels they can succeed and have fun.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to play against a partner, following the rules, ensuring we both succeed and have fun.
Key Notes
- Move: moving into space, dodging and speeding up will help us to be successful.
- Think: reflecting on the rules and making changes to keep it fair ensures everyone has fun.
- Feel: being honest and stopping when tagged enables the game to flow.
- Connect: adapting the rules of a game makes it fair, ensuring that everyone succeeds and enjoys it.
Vocabulary To Learn
- dodging: quickly changing direction to avoid being caught
- fair: respecting everyone as an equal, by playing with honesty and respect
- rules: a guide that describes how to play a game
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils push or hit their partner too hard when they are the chaser. Pupils bump into each other playing tag.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: moving into space, dodging and speeding up will help us to be successful. Think: reflecting on the rules and making changes to keep it fair ensures everyone has fun.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'dodging'
quickly changing direction to avoid being caught.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils push or hit their partner too hard when they are the chaser. Pupils bump into each other playing tag. Correction: Teach pupils how to tag and remind them to tap gently. Remind pupils to slow down or dodge to avoid collisions.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Partner activities: cooperating successfully Study Guide
- Partner activities: developing communication Study Guide
- Partner activities: scoring points with a partner Study Guide
- Partner activities: solving problems Study Guide
- Partner activities: taking turns Study Guide
- Team activities: cooperating in a team game Study Guide
- Team activities: cooperating successfully Study Guide
- Team activities: decision making in a team game Study Guide
- Team activities: developing communication Study Guide
- Team activities: playing fairly in groups Study Guide
- Team activities: solving problems Study Guide
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