Year 6 - Physical education
Game application through competitions
Invasion games: scenarios, tactics and power play in ball games
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Unit Summary
This unit of work will challenge pupils to consistently develop effective attacking and defensive skills and be able to apply these in a variety of game based scenarios. Pupils will create and apply tactics in games, adapting them as the game situation changes, in order to beat the opposition.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to work effectively as part of a team to apply a range of attacking and defensive tactics, as well as special powers, in order to be successful in a competition.
Key Notes
- Move: using a range of attacking and defensive skills accurately and consistently throughout the game leads to success.
- Think: selecting and applying different tactics and powers to utilise in the games requires effective decision making.
- Think: implementing our tactics swiftly when switching between attacking and defending enables success in games.
- Feel: striving to succeed, even if we aren't winning, requires self-motivation and demonstrates leadership.
- Connect: effectively implementing the rules of the game demonstrates advanced respect and fairness.
Vocabulary To Learn
- range: different choices or options you have
- team: a group of people who work together to achieve a common goal
- competition: a challenge where everyone tries to win or do their best
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils don't discuss the benefits or potential problems of each tactic or power before making a selection that is right for their team at the time. One pupil takes over and rushes the decision making.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: using a range of attacking and defensive skills accurately and consistently throughout the game leads to success. Think: selecting and applying different tactics and powers to utilise in the games requires effective decision making.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'range'
different choices or options you have.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils don't discuss the benefits or potential problems of each tactic or power before making a selection that is right for their team at the time. One pupil takes over and rushes the decision making. Correction: Explain that, for a tactic or power to have maximum impact and give their team a big advantage, they must discuss each option as a team.
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