Year 6 - Physical education
Throwing 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 take part in a throwing competition and understand how to use your body to throw as far as possible.
Key Notes
- Move: to throw, stand side on, transfer weight forwards from our back leg, rotate our body and extend our throwing arm.
- Think: using the correct throwing technique will help us to generate power and throw further.
- Feel: in a competition, we must compete with honesty by collecting our scores accurately.
- Connect: when we make suggestions to help improve our groups performance we are developing our trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- javelin: a long, pointed spear-like tool used in an athletics event called the javelin throw
- shot put: an athletics event in which an athlete throws a heavy object called a 'shot' as far as possible
- compete: the process or act of trying to win.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils believe that you throw the shot in the shot put event, similar to how you throw the javelin.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: to throw, stand side on, transfer weight forwards from our back leg, rotate our body and extend our throwing arm. Think: using the correct throwing technique will help us to generate power and throw further.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'javelin'
a long, pointed spear-like tool used in an athletics event called the javelin throw.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils believe that you throw the shot in the shot put event, similar to how you throw the javelin. Correction: Although 'throw' is often the terminology used when competing in the shot put, pupils should push the shot which starts from under their chin. A throwing action, when using a heavier shot, would likely cause a wrist/elblow/shoulder injury.
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