Year 10 - Physical education
High jump
Non-examined assessment: athletics practical
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Unit Summary
This unit provides pupils with the knowledge and opportunity to replicate skills in isolation and in performance scenarios across all athletic disciplines. As a popular individual sport offered by many pupils it will cover sprinting, middle distance, jumping, shot put and javelin events.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to perform a Fosbury flop technique to maximise the height you can jump.
Key Notes
- Move: high jump requires a curved approach to build up speed and momentum.
- Move: high jumpers take off from the outside foot by driving their knee and arm nearest the bar up and over.
- Think: centrifugal force is generated using a curved run up to generate momentum.
- Feel: repeated practice and mental rehearsal builds confidence to execute a powerdul drive almost ignoring the bar.
- Connect: supportive feedback to peers on strengths and areas for improvement in jump technique requires sensitivity.
Vocabulary To Learn
- approach: the series of steps a jumper takes leading up to the jump
- centrifugal force: force that acts outward on a body moving around a curved path
- Fosbury flop: technique in which the athlete arches backward over the bar
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils take an approach straight towards the bar which is not conducive to performing the Fosbury flop technique and maximising height jumped.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: high jump requires a curved approach to build up speed and momentum. Move: high jumpers take off from the outside foot by driving their knee and arm nearest the bar up and over.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'approach'
the series of steps a jumper takes leading up to the jump.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils take an approach straight towards the bar which is not conducive to performing the Fosbury flop technique and maximising height jumped. Correction: Pupils should take a curved run up which is J-shaped and will allow them to perform the technique required to gain the most height in their jump. The teacher can guide them to this through the activities.
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