Year 9 - Physical education
Respond to challenges with persistence and focus
Invasion games: adapt tactics and strategies in contact sports
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Unit Summary
This unit explores ways to adapt tactics and strategies in full-contact sports like rugby. Pupils will learn how to respond to specific types of breakdown such as free kicks, rucks, mauls and scrums as they seek solutions to gain territory, maintain momentum and counterattack.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to remain focused under pressure and respond to challenges with determination.
Key Notes
- Move: positioning your body side on to the attacker helps you make a legal tackle without losing balance.
- Move: use an open hand to knock the ball out of your opponent's hands when tackling.
- Think: anticipating where your opponent may move to helps you get into position early and make an effective tackle.
- Feel: timing the tackle is challenging and takes determination to keep trying, even if you miss the first attempt.
- Connect: showing respect and kindness to others is harder when under pressure.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Gaelic football: a team sport where players try to score by kicking or punching a ball into a goal or over a crossbar.
- tackle: when you try to win the ball by flicking or knocking it away when it's not close to the opponent's body
- determination: the ability to keep trying and not give up, even when things are hard
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think if they miss a tackle, they should just give up.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: positioning your body side on to the attacker helps you make a legal tackle without losing balance. Move: use an open hand to knock the ball out of your opponent's hands when tackling.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Gaelic football'
a team sport where players try to score by kicking or punching a ball into a goal or over a crossbar.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think if they miss a tackle, they should just give up. Correction: Pupils need to show determination to chase back and continue to pressure the attack, even if they miss a tackle.
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