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Year 10 - Physical education

Astronomy: performance skills

Dance: phenomenal

Unit Summary

This unit utilises a thematic approach to provide pupils with a platform to apply knowledge from other subject areas. This will enable them to develop movement ideas beyond those introduced. Open ended tasks encourage and value a range of responses continuing to build creativity and teamwork.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to apply technical and expressive skills to improve your performance.

Key Notes

  • Move: applying and rehearsing technical skills improves accuracy in performance.
  • Think: anticipating how an action looks to others involves imagination.
  • Feel: giving feedback to others requires self-belief in our knowledge and opinions.
  • Connect: giving and receiving feedback involves trust and cooperation from all involved.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • extension: lengthening through the limbs and/or torso
  • expressive: a set of skills that communicate character, mood or atmosphere
  • performance: the act of showing work to an audience

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • The pupils should only use ideas introduced by the teacher.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: applying and rehearsing technical skills improves accuracy in performance. Think: anticipating how an action looks to others involves imagination.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'extension'

lengthening through the limbs and/or torso.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: The pupils should only use ideas introduced by the teacher. Correction: Cross curricular lessons offer scope for pupils to include additional content by bringing, sharing and consolidating subject knowledge from other curriculum areas. Enabling pupils to expand the action content will increase motivation and engagement.

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