Year 6 - Physical education
Achieve a personal best
Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility refined
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Unit Summary
The unit of work will consolidate pupils' understanding of strength, flexibility and the cardiovascular elements of fitness. Pupils will focus on enhancing their own fitness and understanding the importance of taking ownership of their own health and wellbeing in order to lead healthy active lives.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to recognise success and strive to achieve personal bests in different components of fitness.
Key Notes
- Move: challenging my body in all elements of fitness helps my overall physical health and fitness.
- Think: recognising my own success and achievement helps my mental health and wellbeing.
- Feel: challenging myself in components of fitness that I find more difficult requires self discipline and resilience.
- Connect: encouraging others to achieve their personal best supports positive mental health and wellbeing.
Vocabulary To Learn
- component: a part of something bigger
- success: achieving something that you have tried really hard to do
- wellbeing: the state of being comfortable, healthy and happy
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some pupils might think they will only be successful if they can achieve all the activities at the most challenging level.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: challenging my body in all elements of fitness helps my overall physical health and fitness. Think: recognising my own success and achievement helps my mental health and wellbeing.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'component'
a part of something bigger.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Some pupils might think they will only be successful if they can achieve all the activities at the most challenging level. Correction: Everybody is different and success is different for everyone. Anyone who tries their best and gives maximum effort should feel successful, regardless of the level of challenge they completed.
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