Year 6 - Physical education
Improve my flexibility
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 explain how flexibility can be improved.
Key Notes
- Move: specific stretches can be performed to increase the flexibility of specific muscles.
- Think: improving muscle flexibility has a wide range of benefits.
- Feel: looking after my muscular health demonstrates self-discipline and responsibility.
- Connect: celebrating the achievements and strengths of others demonstrates respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- flexibility: the elasticity of muscles when stretching and the ability to move joints through a full range of motion
- stretch: a movement where you gently pull or extend your muscles to make them longer
- tension: a gentle pull, tightening or resistance that indicates that a muscle should not be stretched any further
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some pupils might think that for an effective stretch, you should push or reach until it is painful.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: specific stretches can be performed to increase the flexibility of specific muscles. Think: improving muscle flexibility has a wide range of benefits.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'flexibility'
the elasticity of muscles when stretching and the ability to move joints through a full range of motion.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Some pupils might think that for an effective stretch, you should push or reach until it is painful. Correction: Stretching should never be painful. You might feel tension which can be described as resistance, a pull or tightening and this indicates that the muscle should not be stretched any further. Tension might ease with some deep breathing.
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