Year 8 - Physical education
Redefining success
Inclusive sports: teamship, communication and awareness of others
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Unit Summary
This unit explores how to measure success beyond the outcomes of competition, how to balance competition, and how to ensure games are inclusive, respectful, supportive and engaging for all. Pupils will develop their teamship skills through improved communication, empathy and awareness of others.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to define what success can look like in a range of competitions.
Key Notes
- Move: swinging your arms will increase the distance your object is thrown.
- Move: the point of release will determine how high and how far your object travels toward your target.
- Think: establishing the aim and rules of a new activity inform tactical decisions in competition.
- Feel: working toward, achieving and celebrating a personal best builds confidence and self-esteem.
- Connect: shifting the focus away from the outcome of a competition builds stronger relationships between participants.
Vocabulary To Learn
- personal best: achieving or surpassing individual your record
- teamwork: work done by a group acting together
- processes: actions, strategies and routines athletes follow to improve skills, maintain consistency and achieve goals
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Winning is the only metric of success and losing is always bad.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: swinging your arms will increase the distance your object is thrown. Move: the point of release will determine how high and how far your object travels toward your target.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'personal best'
achieving or surpassing individual your record.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Winning is the only metric of success and losing is always bad. Correction: You can make improvements to your own/your team's performance in many different ways, regardless of the outcome of a competition.
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