Year 4 - Physical education
Passing, receiving and creating space in games
Invasion games: maintaining possession and stopping an attack in ball games
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' ability to apply the principles of attack vs defence, focussing on how to use their passing, moving and dribbling skills to create shooting opportunities as well as defensive principles to stop an attack. Pupils will work together in teams to create simple tactics.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to pass and move the ball accurately and create simple tactics for creating space and keeping possession.
Key Notes
- Move: moving quickly at an angle to create space and putting our hands up shows we are ready to receive the pass.
- Think: knowing that moving quickly into space creates space, enables us to create tactics to keep possession.
- Think: making effective decisions during the game about where to pass and move enables our team to keep possession.
- Feel: ensuring everyone on the team is motivated and understands why we should try our best requires integrity.
- Connect: cooperating in teams and encouraging each other enables us to apply simple tactics to keep possession.
Vocabulary To Learn
- tactics: plans you create and use to try to win or succeed
- creating space: making room around you so you or your team can pass and move successfully
- possession: the team in control of the ball
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that once they have moved into a space, they can stay still and wait for the ball to come to them.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: moving quickly at an angle to create space and putting our hands up shows we are ready to receive the pass. Think: knowing that moving quickly into space creates space, enables us to create tactics to keep possession.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'tactics'
plans you create and use to try to win or succeed.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that once they have moved into a space, they can stay still and wait for the ball to come to them. Correction: Pupils must be reminded to keep moving, creating angles for passes to the sides of their opposition. If they stand still, it makes it really easy for the defender to mark them.
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