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Year 2 - Physical education

Collaborating successfully when playing simple games

Outdoor adventurous activities: team building

Unit Summary

This unit will develop pupils' ability to apply effective teamwork, ensuring that everyone is included and understands their role. Pupils will begin to develop and apply simple strategies to solve problems with a focus on applying effective collaboration skills when working as part of a team.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to collaborate with others in your team to successfully compete in simple games.

Key Notes

  • Move: developing accuracy in our movements will help increase our chances of success as a team.
  • Think: making decisions as a team enables us to apply strategies that will help us to be successful in games.
  • Feel: working as a team in games involves being honest and playing by the rules, even when we aren't winning.
  • Connect: including all members of our team when making decisions demonstrates gratitude.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • collaborating: working and connecting with others
  • success: doing something well or reaching a goal you wanted to achieve
  • compete:: playing, racing or performing against an opponent

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Some pupils might think that teams are only successful if they score the most points or beat their opposition when they compete.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: developing accuracy in our movements will help increase our chances of success as a team. Think: making decisions as a team enables us to apply strategies that will help us to be successful in games.

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

working and connecting with others.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Some pupils might think that teams are only successful if they score the most points or beat their opposition when they compete. Correction: Competing successfully can be measured in different ways. Scoring the most points or goals is one measure. Including all team members, playing fairly or bringing positivity are all equally important ways of being successful when competing.

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