Year 3 - Physical education
Game play: apply batting and fielding skills in competition
Striking and fielding games: fielding vs batting
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Unit Summary
The unit introduces batting vs fielding. Pupils will develop an understanding of the purpose of each team and learn how to apply a variety of skills such as throwing and stopping the ball to keep the batter's score low as well as their competence in striking in order to score points when batting.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand the difference between your role when batting and fielding in a game situation.
Key Notes
- Move: it is important to run as fast as possible to score points as a batter and to retrieve the ball as a fielder.
- Think: making good decisions when batting helps score points and when fielding helps prevent the batters scoring.
- Feel: congratulating opponents when they perform better than us shows we are respectful to others.
- Connect: striving to play our best, even when we are losing in a game, shows we have excellent resilience.
Vocabulary To Learn
- batting: when a player uses a bat to hit a thrown or bowled ball, aiming to score points by hitting it far
- fielding: when players on the non- batting team try to catch or stop the ball and get the batters out
- game: an activity or sport in which people compete with each other according to agreed rules
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A celebration can only be shown or given when they have been successful.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: it is important to run as fast as possible to score points as a batter and to retrieve the ball as a fielder. Think: making good decisions when batting helps score points and when fielding helps prevent the batters scoring.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'batting'
when a player uses a bat to hit a thrown or bowled ball, aiming to score points by hitting it far.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: A celebration can only be shown or given when they have been successful. Correction: Children may feel a lack of inclusion and encouragement if acknowledgement of their efforts are only made when they have been successful.
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