Year 6 - Physical education
Improve my strength
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 strength helps in a wide range of sporting activities.
Key Notes
- Move: muscular strength is required for stillness, explosive power and endurance.
- Think: knowing the different muscle groups helps us to use our strength appropriately.
- Feel: developing muscle strength requires a responsible and safe approach.
- Connect: collaborating with others ensures that we perform exercises safely with the correct technique.
Vocabulary To Learn
- strength: how much your muscles can overcome a force without getting tired too quickly e.g. lift, push, pull or carry
- technique: the way in which a skill is performed
- injury: harm to your body caused by an accident, impact or excessive strain
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some pupils might think that humans only need strong muscles if they want to excel in sports such as weight lifting and climbing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: muscular strength is required for stillness, explosive power and endurance. Think: knowing the different muscle groups helps us to use our strength appropriately.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'strength'
how much your muscles can overcome a force without getting tired too quickly e.g. lift, push, pull or carry.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Some pupils might think that humans only need strong muscles if they want to excel in sports such as weight lifting and climbing. Correction: Strong muscles are essential for humans to complete everyday tasks including breathing, blinking, sitting, lifting, chewing etc. Strong muscles also help our joints to work effectively which helps to avoid injury and pain.
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