Year 5 - Physical education
Finishing a race
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 finish a sprinting race strong, maintaining speed until you cross the line.
Key Notes
- Move: to maintain good sprinting technique we must pump our arms, run on the balls of our feet and keep our head up.
- Move: ending the race involves dipping at the finish line by bending forward at the waist as we cross the line.
- Think: good sprinting technique means we can run more efficiently and at a greater speed with less effort.
- Feel: always trying our best to improve our sprint technique and to win races demonstrates excellent self-motivation.
- Connect: encouraging and supporting others can help them and us to improve our sprint technique.
Vocabulary To Learn
- sprint: when you run and use all of your energy to go as fast as you can for a short distance
- speed: a measure of how quickly we move from one point to another
- dip: the technique where runners extend their bodies forward to cross the finish line
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils dip at the wrong time, dipping too early, which has a negative impact on their running speed. Often pupils just dip their head forwards, rather than their upper body.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: to maintain good sprinting technique we must pump our arms, run on the balls of our feet and keep our head up. Move: ending the race involves dipping at the finish line by bending forward at the waist as we cross the line.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'sprint'
when you run and use all of your energy to go as fast as you can for a short distance.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils dip at the wrong time, dipping too early, which has a negative impact on their running speed. Often pupils just dip their head forwards, rather than their upper body. Correction: Give pupils opportunities to practise implementing the dip, aiming for around 3 steps before the finish line. Ensure pupils understand that a sprint race is measured when a runners upper body, shoulders cross the line, not their head.
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