Year 5 - Physical education
The hurdles
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 understand and apply the correct hurdling technique to jump safely and efficiently.
Key Notes
- Move: When hurdling, we must look forward, drive the lead knee up, step over the hurdle and bend the trailing leg.
- Move: we should use a consistent stride pattern between the hurdles, leading with the same leg each jump.
- Think: observing others and evaluating their performance can help us to improve our hurdle technique.
- Feel: managing our emotions is important when hurdling as we may get frustrated if we knock a hurdle over.
- Connect: communicating with others and providing feedback is vital for the development of their technique.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hurdle: a physical barrier that runners must jump over during a race
- lead leg: the leg that goes over the hurdle first
- trail leg: the leg that follows over the hurdle after the lead leg
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils jump as high as possible when attempting to clear a hurdle which can slow them down and negatively effect their rhythm.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: When hurdling, we must look forward, drive the lead knee up, step over the hurdle and bend the trailing leg. Move: we should use a consistent stride pattern between the hurdles, leading with the same leg each jump.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'hurdle'
a physical barrier that runners must jump over during a race.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils jump as high as possible when attempting to clear a hurdle which can slow them down and negatively effect their rhythm. Correction: Pupils need to focus on their technique to help them jump the hurdles efficiently with a flat technique.
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