Year 5 - Physical education
Attack vs defence
Invasion games: shooting, scoring and denying space in ball games
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Unit Summary
The unit will challenge pupils to enhance their attacking and defensive skills. Pupils will have a clear understanding of when, where and why to apply these skills during a game. Pupils will be able to develop effective tactics for both attacking and defending and apply these successfully in games.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create, apply and adapt attacking and defensive tactics in games to help your team to be successful.
Key Notes
- Move: creating a successful shooting chance requires us to dribble, pass and move accurately and consistently.
- Move: preventing an attack requires a quick transition into defensive positions to deny the opposition space and time.
- Think: adapting tactics as the situation in the game changes requires problem solving and increases chances for success.
- Feel: never giving up even when our team is losing; striving to succeed instead demonstrates great self discipline
- Connect: listening to our team, explaining tactics when someone doesn't understand, shows effective communication.
Vocabulary To Learn
- adapt: to change or adjust to fit a new situation
- tactics: plans you create and use to try to win or succeed
- success: achieving a goal or doing something well
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once in games, pupils focus too much on just wanting to shoot and to win. Pupils forget the importance of their tactics and that they need to stay focused on the task ahead.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: creating a successful shooting chance requires us to dribble, pass and move accurately and consistently. Move: preventing an attack requires a quick transition into defensive positions to deny the opposition space and time.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'adapt'
to change or adjust to fit a new situation.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once in games, pupils focus too much on just wanting to shoot and to win. Pupils forget the importance of their tactics and that they need to stay focused on the task ahead. Correction: Encourage pupils to focus on their tactics and to understand that it is the successful implementation of their tactics that will lead to success in the games.
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