Year 6 - Physical education
Staying active, fit and healthy with others
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 work with others and encourage your peers whilst we develop our fitness together.
Key Notes
- Move: different movements challenge our bodies in different ways and require different components of fitness.
- Think: making appropriate choices about the type of activity we do can help us to reach our goals.
- Feel: knowing my own strengths and striving to make improvements requires self-motivation.
- Connect: acting as a role model and encouraging others helps everyone to be successful.
Vocabulary To Learn
- challenge: hard to do and an opportunity to learn
- motivation: reason or desire to do something, often driven by curiosity, interest or the promise of rewards
- encourage: to offer support, confidence and belief
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some pupils might think that activities for fitness are always solo tasks that don't encourage social interaction.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: different movements challenge our bodies in different ways and require different components of fitness. Think: making appropriate choices about the type of activity we do can help us to reach our goals.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'challenge'
hard to do and an opportunity to learn.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Some pupils might think that activities for fitness are always solo tasks that don't encourage social interaction. Correction: Being active with others can have lots of benefits, e.g. increased motivation, encouragement from others, and confidence. All these benefits combined, can encourage individuals to be more active, more often, resulting in increased activity levels.
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