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Year 3 - Physical education

Create and use simple tactics through team challenges

Outdoor adventurous activities: team challenges

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 create simple tactics and work well as part of an effective team to complete challenges.

Key Notes

  • Move: working as a team to move quickly will help us to complete challenges.
  • Think: it is important to understand that a successful team has to cooperate and trust one another to be successful.
  • Feel: trying our hardest, even when we are not always successful as a team, demonstrates excellent resilience.
  • Connect: working together as a team by communicating, to apply simple tactics, helps us win the challenge.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • team: a group of people who work together with the objective of achieving the same a goal
  • challenges: tests of ability or skill
  • tactics: carefully planned sets of actions that are used by a team or an individual to achieve a certain goal

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils believe that all implemented tactics will always be successful.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: working as a team to move quickly will help us to complete challenges. Think: it is important to understand that a successful team has to cooperate and trust one another to be successful.

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

a group of people who work together with the objective of achieving the same a goal.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils believe that all implemented tactics will always be successful. Correction: Ensure pupils understand that tactics don't always work and they may need to react quickly to adapt them.

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