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Year 2 - Physical education

Cooperation and communication

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 cooperate and communicate well to successfully complete challenges as a team.

Key Notes

  • Move: moving quickly, with coordination, increases the chance of our team completing challenges.
  • Think: making effective decisions about tactics to use can help my team complete challenges successfully.
  • Feel: supporting others during challenges demonstrates courage and honesty.
  • Connect: showing gratitude to our teammates helps our team to successfully cooperate.
  • Connect: working effectively as a team to apply strategies enables success in the competition as well as enjoyment.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • cooperation: working together and helping others to achieve a goal
  • communication: sharing ideas, thoughts or feelings with others
  • team: a group of people who work together to reach a goal

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Some pupils may think that when they are working in a team, everyone should stay together and do the same thing.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: moving quickly, with coordination, increases the chance of our team completing challenges. Think: making effective decisions about tactics to use can help my team complete challenges successfully.

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

working together and helping others to achieve a goal.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Some pupils may think that when they are working in a team, everyone should stay together and do the same thing. Correction: Sometimes, a good tactic to quickly complete a challenge is to split the challenge into smaller tasks and share them out amongst the team. A team can still be working towards the same goal, even if everyone is working separately on different tasks.

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