Year 9 - Physical education
Integrity and honesty in action
Striking and fielding: officiating your own small sided cricket games
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop consistency, timing and fluency in the execution of batting, bowling and fielding skills as well as providing pupils with the opportunity to demonstrate integrity through officiating their own games.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to play and officiate striking and fielding games in a fair and honest way.
Key Notes
- Move: a high top elbow can help play shots with a straight bat, protect your wicket and limit LBWs.
- Think: making a decision to 'walk', when you know you are out, demonstrates honesty and integrity.
- Feel: performing a well-timed shot with a straight bat and high top elbow can be very satisfying.
- Connect: partner feedback can help to visualise performance and quickly fix errors.
Vocabulary To Learn
- integrity: sticking to your principles and values, even under pressure
- honesty: being honest and fair in your actions and doing the right thing
- LBW (leg before wicket): when the ball hits the batter's body (not their bat) and it would have gone on to hit the stumps
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils will swing the bat across their body like a baseball bat which increases the chance of missing the ball, edging it or getting out.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: a high top elbow can help play shots with a straight bat, protect your wicket and limit LBWs. Think: making a decision to 'walk', when you know you are out, demonstrates honesty and integrity.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'integrity'
sticking to your principles and values, even under pressure.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils will swing the bat across their body like a baseball bat which increases the chance of missing the ball, edging it or getting out. Correction: Pupils should understand that because of the way the ball is bowled in cricket, playing with a straight bat is often the most effective way to strike and not risk your wicket.
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