Year 5 - Physical education
Evaluating sprinting: personal bests
Athletics: enhanced athletic challenges
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Unit Summary
This unit will challenge pupils to consolidate their knowledge, understanding and ability to sprint effectively, individually and within a team. Pupils will show self motivation to improve their technique for throwing a shot put and explore and develop an understanding of how to hurdle safely.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to evaluate your own and others sprinting technique and make suggestions as to how we can improve our performance throughout the race.
Key Notes
- Move: applying the correct technique at different stages of a race can help us to sprint faster.
- Move: changing our stride length in different stages of the race can help improve acceleration and maintain speed.
- Think: if we slow down before the end of a sprinting race and don't dip at the line we are likely to be overtaken.
- Feel: staying positive if we don't beat our personal best shows good control of our emotions.
- Connect: providing others with constructive feedback on their strengths and weaknesses can help improve technique.
Vocabulary To Learn
- race: a competition where runners compete to see who can run the fastest over a certain distance.
- technique: the method we use to perform a task
- speed: a measure of how quickly we move from one point to another
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils sometimes think that holding their breath or shallow breathing helps them focus or exert more power.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: applying the correct technique at different stages of a race can help us to sprint faster. Move: changing our stride length in different stages of the race can help improve acceleration and maintain speed.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'race'
a competition where runners compete to see who can run the fastest over a certain distance.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils sometimes think that holding their breath or shallow breathing helps them focus or exert more power. Correction: Ensure pupils stay relaxed when sprinting and understand that deep rhythmic breaths will help their muscles recieve more oxygen to generate energy.
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