Year 6 - Physical education
Focusing on the task
Outdoor adventurous activities: leadership
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Unit Summary
This unit will enable pupils to identify the different attributes that make an effective leader and apply effective leadership skills to support and guide others. Pupils will learn to lead their team in different games and competitive challenges, supporting their team to apply effective tactics.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain the STEP principle and understand the need to adapt a task in a game situation.
Key Notes
- Move: when adapting the tasks, accurate throwing is always important in order to be successful in different conditions.
- Think: adapting a task correctly can ensure that everyone is appropriately challenged.
- Think: when leading a group, it is important to ensure that all members of the team understand what they have to do.
- Feel: when adapting tasks, it is important to listen to every team member's ideas and make sure everyone feels valued.
- Connect: evaluating each other's leadership efforts when adapting tasks shows effective communication.
Vocabulary To Learn
- teammates: people who work together with a shared goal, supporting each other to succeed
- task: a specific action or set of actions that a team must perform to achieve a goal
- adapt: to change or adjust in response to new conditions or requirements.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils believe when adapting a task that everyone needs the same level of challenge.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: when adapting the tasks, accurate throwing is always important in order to be successful in different conditions. Think: adapting a task correctly can ensure that everyone is appropriately challenged.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'teammates'
people who work together with a shared goal, supporting each other to succeed.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils believe when adapting a task that everyone needs the same level of challenge. Correction: Ensure pupils understand that everyone has different levels of skill, experience and confidence, therefore adapting a task should look to meet the needs of all the pupils engaging in it.
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