Year 6 - Physical education
Team athletics competition
Athletics: athletic challenges refined
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Unit Summary
This unit will challenge pupils to apply their knowledge and skills into a series of competitions. Pupils will experience competition across multiple areas of athletics and will have to work individually and collaborate together in teams to apply the correct techniques in order to be successful.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to help to organise your team as well as take part in running, jumping and throwing events.
Key Notes
- Move: to consistently improve in a competition, we must perform with the correct technique for running and field events.
- Think: in a team competition we select individuals to perform in certain events depending on their strengths.
- Think: we create tactics as a team and apply these to our athletic events to score points and win the competition.
- Feel: performing as part of a team helps to build a sense of trust and belonging.
- Connect: we help our team stay motivated by communicating, ensuring everyone is involved and enjoying the competition.
Vocabulary To Learn
- team: a group of people who work together to achieve the same goal
- performance: how well we are able to execute a skill such as running, throwing or jumping
- events: competitive activities, for example in athletics, we test physical abilities such as speed, strength, endurance and agility.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils believe that only the selected pupil performing in the event needs to focus on it.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: to consistently improve in a competition, we must perform with the correct technique for running and field events. Think: in a team competition we select individuals to perform in certain events depending on their strengths.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'team'
a group of people who work together to achieve the same goal.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils believe that only the selected pupil performing in the event needs to focus on it. Correction: Ensure that pupils understand that the whole team has a part to play in each event. Helping with tactics, motivating and encouraging each other are ways they can all be involved.
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