Year 4 - Physical education
Game play: apply batting and fielding skills
Striking and fielding games: tactics and strategies through racing rounders
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Unit Summary
The unit will develop pupils' ability to apply the principles of attack vs defence, focusing on racing rounders. Pupils will continue to develop and apply a variety of fielding skills and tactics to keep the batter's score low and learn where to bat the ball in order to score maximum points.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to demonstrate good batting and fielding skills in a game of racing rounders.
Key Notes
- Move: striking the ball so that we aim low and hard reduces the chances of fielders catching it.
- Move: accurate throwing, catching and retrieving skills are important to keep the batters score as low as possible.
- Think: trying new tactics in a game of racing rounders can help us improve our performance.
- Feel: recovering quickly after a poor performance, shows resilience and a desire to improve.
- Connect: striving to collaborate with our team to make sure everyone feels valued demonstrates excellent trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- catching: to take hold of something that is thrown
- tactics: a carefully planned set of actions that are used by a team or an individual to achieve a certain goal
- scoring: winning points in a game situation
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When fielding in games, pupils believe that retrieving the ball and running it back to the bases is the most effective and quickest way to field.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: striking the ball so that we aim low and hard reduces the chances of fielders catching it. Move: accurate throwing, catching and retrieving skills are important to keep the batters score as low as possible.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'catching'
to take hold of something that is thrown.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: When fielding in games, pupils believe that retrieving the ball and running it back to the bases is the most effective and quickest way to field. Correction: Encourage pupils to work as a team, by backing each other up and supporting each other. Ensure pupils understand that accurately throwing the ball to a teammate that is closer to the bases will be more effective and quicker than running with it.
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