Year 3 - Physical education
Performing meditative balances
Health and wellbeing: mindfulness and meditative balances
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Unit Summary
The unit will explore how we feel in our minds and in our bodies, when we experience various emotions. Pupils will learn how to execute meditative balances while focusing, to help combat feelings of anxiety. Pupils will gain an awareness of how to apply these techniques in day-to-day life.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to hold and perform various meditative balances to help your mind and body to feel more relaxed.
Key Notes
- Move: we can use meditative balances to help us focus and relax as well as increase our strength and flexibility.
- Think: performing meditative balances correctly requires focus in order to relax.
- Feel: trying our hardest even when we find it difficult to focus and relax shows that we have self-discipline.
- Connect: cooperating together to create high quality meditative balances shows that we trust and respect one another.
Vocabulary To Learn
- meditative: being very calm, quiet and focused
- balance: keep stability and control over the body's position to stay stationary
- focus: the concentration of attention on a particular object, task or goal
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils over complicate the balances they are holding and fail to hold them still. This also means they will not be able to focus as they try to hold the balance.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: we can use meditative balances to help us focus and relax as well as increase our strength and flexibility. Think: performing meditative balances correctly requires focus in order to relax.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'meditative'
being very calm, quiet and focused.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils over complicate the balances they are holding and fail to hold them still. This also means they will not be able to focus as they try to hold the balance. Correction: Encourage pupils to create a stable base, enabling their body to focus throughout and successfully use the balances as a tool to relax.
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