Year 5 - Physical education
My personal best
Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility
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Unit Summary
This unit will teach pupils the meaning of strength, flexibility and the cardiovascular elements of fitness. Pupils will perform cardio, flexibility and strength focused circuits developing their own fitness and enhance their understanding of the importance of healthy active lifestyles.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to perform a range of fitness related activities and identify areas of fitness that you can do well and where you need to improve.
Key Notes
- Move: taking part in activities that build fitness gives us awareness of our personal fitness and what can be improved.
- Think: reflecting on our fitness during fitness challenges is important to help recognise our fitness improvements.
- Feel: striving to focus on all areas of fitness helps to develop personal integrity towards our health.
- Connect: striving to support one another through fitness assessments develops cooperation and trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- measurement: quantifies how much, how long, how heavy or how fast something is
- challenge: a demand on the body that would exceed our normal effort
- improve: to make better or to increase quality
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Your fitness is fixed and cannot be changed.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: taking part in activities that build fitness gives us awareness of our personal fitness and what can be improved. Think: reflecting on our fitness during fitness challenges is important to help recognise our fitness improvements.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'measurement'
quantifies how much, how long, how heavy or how fast something is.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Your fitness is fixed and cannot be changed. Correction: Fitness can improve slowly and over time. Measuring our fitness only tells us what we can do on that day.
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