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Year 2 - Physical education

Working together and competing as a team

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 work together with your team to create and apply strategies to solve a problem.

Key Notes

  • Move: moving quickly with coordination is necessary to complete problem solving challenges competitively.
  • Think: concentration is important when trying to complete problem solving challenges as quickly as possible.
  • Think: imagination and creativity helps us to develop strategies to compete against others.
  • Feel: always playing by the rules can help everyone to enjoy a challenge and demonstrates honesty and fairness.
  • Connect: working as a team to apply strategies can help a team to be successful when competing.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • strategy: a plan for achieving success
  • problem: a difficulty, challenge or obstacle that needs a solution or an answer
  • competing: playing, racing or performing against an opponent

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Some pupils might think that successful strategies need to be very complicated.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: moving quickly with coordination is necessary to complete problem solving challenges competitively. Think: concentration is important when trying to complete problem solving challenges as quickly as possible.

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

a plan for achieving success.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Some pupils might think that successful strategies need to be very complicated. Correction: Simple strategies are usually most successful because everyone on the team can be clear about what they have to do and can do their part very easily and quickly.

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