Year 3 - Physical education
Communicating to create tactics as a team
Outdoor adventurous activities: team challenges
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Unit Summary
The unit of work will explore what makes an effective team through different problem-solving tasks and challenges. Throughout the unit, there will be a focus on pupils developing their communication skills, essential to working within a team to complete the challenges successfully.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team to create simple attacking and defending tactics.
Key Notes
- Move: when attacking and defending, we need to be fast and agile to be more successful as a team.
- Think: collaborating in between games to develop attacking and defensive tactics improves our team's performance.
- Think: being able to explain tactical ideas to our team shows we understand the game and can improve our performance.
- Feel: striving to play by the rules and encouraging others to do the same shows self-discipline.
- Connect: striving to lead and support everyone in the team, particularly those who are struggling, shows empathy.
Vocabulary To Learn
- tactics: a carefully planned set of actions that are used by a team or an individual to achieve a certain goal
- defending: preventing the opposition (attackers) from scoring
- attacking: trying to score points or goals
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils disregard their tactics once they start playing the game, getting distracted by everything else that is going on in the game.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: when attacking and defending, we need to be fast and agile to be more successful as a team. Think: collaborating in between games to develop attacking and defensive tactics improves our team's performance.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'tactics'
a carefully planned set of actions that are used by a team or an individual to achieve a certain goal.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils disregard their tactics once they start playing the game, getting distracted by everything else that is going on in the game. Correction: Ensure pupils understand their tactics and make an effort to use them during the game. Highlight and praise pupils that manage this.
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