Year 7 - Physical education
Relays
Athletics: run, jump, throw and officiate
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore core techniques and use knowledge to become more technically proficient at sprinting, jogging and a range of both jumping and throwing events. Pupils will learn how the body responds to different types of exercise, how to be self-motivated and how to officiate fairly.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to play an active role in a relay team, using an efficient technique to pass and receive the baton.
Key Notes
- Move: extending the arm back, while looking forward, provides a stable target for the incoming runner to aim for.
- Move: the receiver should accelerate to a sprint by the time the incoming runner is ready to exchange the baton.
- Think: the receiver must begin to run at a precise moment to ensure the changeover is performed at high speed.
- Feel: striving to apply our very best effort shows self-motivation and supports our team to achieve success in relays.
- Connect: communication from the incoming runner to the receiver is vital to ensure the changeover is a success.
Vocabulary To Learn
- receiver: the runner in a relay team about to receive the baton
- baton exchange: the moment the baton is passed between runners
- incoming runner: the runner in a relay team running with the baton
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils often perform relay changeovers with the receiver standing still until they receive the baton, then accelerating into their sprint.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: extending the arm back, while looking forward, provides a stable target for the incoming runner to aim for. Move: the receiver should accelerate to a sprint by the time the incoming runner is ready to exchange the baton.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'receiver'
the runner in a relay team about to receive the baton.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils often perform relay changeovers with the receiver standing still until they receive the baton, then accelerating into their sprint. Correction: Changeovers should be performed at high speed. The receiver begins to accelerate at just the right moment to high speed but not too far ahead of the incoming runner. This will be different for each pupil (~3.5m is a good point to work from).
More Lessons In This Unit
- Hurdles Study Guide
- Javelin technique Study Guide
- Jumping for distance Study Guide
- Jumping for height Study Guide
- Officiating your own jumping challenges Study Guide
- Officiating your own throwing challenges Study Guide
- Realising your potential at long jump Study Guide
- Running for distance and understanding pace Study Guide
- Running for speed and the relationship between distance and time Study Guide
- Shot put technique Study Guide
- Supporting others to successfully triple jump Study Guide
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