Year 3 - Physical education
Passing and moving to create space
Invasion games: principles of attack and defence through ball games
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Unit Summary
The unit of work will introduce pupils to the principles of attack and defence, with a particular focus on passing, moving and scoring. Pupils will show integrity as they learn to keep possession and eventually score in order to win a modified game. The unit will focus on games using hands and feet.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to work with your team to maintain possession and score points by making effective decisions.
Key Notes
- Move: passing accurately to maintain possession and score requires moving into space quickly, creating passing options.
- Move: passing accurately to maintain possession and score requires aiming at our team mate's target.
- Think: deciding on the best passing option enables our team to keep possession and score.
- Feel: enjoying working hard shows self motivation, which is essential to supporting our team's success.
- Connect: playing by the rules and encouraging others shows respect towards both our own team as well as the opposition.
Vocabulary To Learn
- score: the points that determine who is winning in a game
- possession: the team in control of the ball
- maintain: to take care of something so it keeps working well
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils will try and make a pass to score from too far away. Pupils run into the endzone boxes to receive a pass too early and are just standing still in the box.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: passing accurately to maintain possession and score requires moving into space quickly, creating passing options. Move: passing accurately to maintain possession and score requires aiming at our team mate's target.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'score'
the points that determine who is winning in a game.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils will try and make a pass to score from too far away. Pupils run into the endzone boxes to receive a pass too early and are just standing still in the box. Correction: Encourage pupils to be closer to the scoring zones before trying to make a pass to score. Explain that if we just stand in the box, we aren't helping our team with a passing option.
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