Year 5 - Physical education
Game application through competition
Net and wall games: tactics to overcome an opponent through tennis
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Unit Summary
This unit will challenge pupils to apply their prior learning of hitting the ball into space and develop their motor competence to perform these skills through tennis. Pupils will develop their ability to serve and to volley, and enjoy applying these skills accurately and consistently in games.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use a range of different shots to hit the ball into space to win the rally and score points.
Key Notes
- Move: hitting the ball at pace into space and using a range of shots increases our chance of winning the competition
- Move: serving the ball into the corners of the service box increases our chances of winning the point
- Think: understanding how to keep the score correctly requires excellent concentration when umpiring competitive games
- Feel: striving to play our best even when we are losing demonstrates excellent resilience and self motivation.
- Connect: congratulating our opponents when they perform well shows that you are extremely respectful to others.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pace: hitting the ball faster towards our opponent
- winning: scoring more goals, tries, points than your opponents
- competition: the process or act of trying to win
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When asking the pupils to hit the ball at pace, they may lose accuracy and control. You may have a wide range of abilities in your group which means that many of the games might not be competitive.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: hitting the ball at pace into space and using a range of shots increases our chance of winning the competition. Move: serving the ball into the corners of the service box increases our chances of winning the point.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'pace'
hitting the ball faster towards our opponent.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: When asking the pupils to hit the ball at pace, they may lose accuracy and control. You may have a wide range of abilities in your group which means that many of the games might not be competitive. Correction: If pupils hit the ball too hard, remind them that accuracy and control is more important. Use the previous lessons to assess the ability of pupils so you can organise pairs who will have competitive games against one another.
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