Year 11 - Physical education
The race of your life
Health and wellbeing: HIIT and couch to 5k team challenges to develop fitness
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' understanding of the principles of training through a running programme that stretches them as an individual but also their contribution to a team. Their cardiovascular endurance will improve whilst taking responsibility for their own training.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to prepare your body and partake in the 5km running event.
Key Notes
- Move: keeping your head upright, looking forward, maintains a straight spine and improves breathing even when tired.
- Think: maintaining a steady, sustainable pace helps you keep going without needing to stop or walk.
- Think: appreciate that skills and abilities gained from this training that can be applied beyond the PE environment.
- Feel: pushing through fatigue to keep going and succeed brings a strong sense of achievement.
- Connect: congratulating others on their performance, regardless of their 5km time, promotes good sportspersonship.
Vocabulary To Learn
- preparation: getting ready for something by organising and practising in advance
- etiquette: set of unwritten rules, often described as a code of conduct
- endurance: the ability to sustain exercise for an extended period of time without fatigue
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think the race is about placing and running in the fastest time.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: keeping your head upright, looking forward, maintains a straight spine and improves breathing even when tired. Think: maintaining a steady, sustainable pace helps you keep going without needing to stop or walk.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'preparation'
getting ready for something by organising and practising in advance.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think the race is about placing and running in the fastest time. Correction: Yes placings are given, but the key focus is to complete the race in a time that you know is representative of you working to the best of your ability.
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