Year 8 - Physical education
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Outdoor adventurous activities: physical and intellectual challenges
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Unit Summary
This unit explores pupils' ability to respond effectively to problems and physical challenges, both individually and in cooperation with others. Developing awareness of others and ability to work in teams is essential to success in life and in this unit.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to operate as a valuable team member ensuring everyone feels valued and included.
Key Notes
- Move: coordination is essential for maintaining control and allowing smooth transitions between movements.
- Move: balance is required to transfer weight forward onto the other foot in time with others.
- Think: everyone needs to be clear on the task and focused to achieve it together.
- Feel: valuing others shapes how we interact with people and builds meaningful positive relationships.
- Connect: coordinating movements to be in time becomes tougher as group size increases.
Vocabulary To Learn
- value: recognising the importance, worth or usefulness of something/someone
- inclusion: providing equal access to opportunities to everyone and ensuring they have a voice
- resilience: the ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Rushing to complete the task and therforemfailing to listen to, or consider, all group members.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: coordination is essential for maintaining control and allowing smooth transitions between movements. Move: balance is required to transfer weight forward onto the other foot in time with others.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'value'
recognising the importance, worth or usefulness of something/someone.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Rushing to complete the task and therforemfailing to listen to, or consider, all group members. Correction: Together Everyone Achieves More, it is essential to work as a TEAM and ensure everyone is valued.
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