Year 9 - Physical education
Goalkeeping and fast breaks
Invasion games: adapt tactics and strategies through handball
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Unit Summary
This unit explores ways to adapt skills, tactics and strategies and apply them with adherence to the rules of handball. Pupils will develop their resilience as they utilise the full rules and officiate their own games.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to save goals and create scoring opportunities from a fast break.
Key Notes
- Move: arms are outstretched and upright stance between ball carrier and goal line when goalkeeping.
- Move: drive forward quickly in a fast break to exploit space before defenders can recover and organise.
- Think: making yourself big and narrowing the angle reduces the shooter's view of goal.
- Feel: staying alert and balanced to react instantly when rebounding relies on quick instincts and timing.
- Connect: fast interplay of the ball results in more handling errors that may cause a dip in team morale.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rebound: when the ball bounces backwards after hitting the goal post or wall
- D: the curved line around the goal and only the goalkeeper can go inside it
- break: a quick attack towards goal in an attempt to score before the oppositions defence is set up
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think you should only move slowly with the ball so you don't lose posession.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: arms are outstretched and upright stance between ball carrier and goal line when goalkeeping. Move: drive forward quickly in a fast break to exploit space before defenders can recover and organise.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rebound'
when the ball bounces backwards after hitting the goal post or wall.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think you should only move slowly with the ball so you don't lose posession. Correction: Moving fast with the ball can create more opportunities to beat defenders, create space and keep the attacking momentum strong.
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