Year 6 - Physical education
Being active, fit and healthy
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 participate in activities that help you to enjoy being active so you stay fit and healthy.
Key Notes
- Move: warming up safely requires a gentle increase in intensity and must prepare our bodies so we avoid injury.
- Move: using correct techniques to warm up our bodies helps us to stay healthy during exercise.
- Think: understanding different components of fitness can help to ensure we warm up thoroughly and exercise effectively.
- Feel: warming up before intense exercise demonstrates self-discipline and responsibility.
- Connect: working with others and having fun while being active shows respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- healthy: being fit and mobile, free from illness and able to easily do everyday things
- exercise: physical activity that improves or maintains health, fitness and overall well-being by strengthening muscles, heart and lungs
- activities: tasks you do for fun, learning and/or exercise
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some pupils might think that being active and fit requires gruelling, high impact activity, that maximises heart rate and leads to physical exhaustion.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: warming up safely requires a gentle increase in intensity and must prepare our bodies so we avoid injury. Move: using correct techniques to warm up our bodies helps us to stay healthy during exercise.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'healthy'
being fit and mobile, free from illness and able to easily do everyday things.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Some pupils might think that being active and fit requires gruelling, high impact activity, that maximises heart rate and leads to physical exhaustion. Correction: Activities should suit the goal you are trying to achieve. High impact, exhausting activities are suited to improve cardiovascular endurance. Low impact, relaxing exercising are suited to developing other components of fitness e.g. flexibility.
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