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KS3 PE

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Year Long Term Objective: To have well rounded sports performers, who have the transferable skills and qualities to be successful across sporting disciplines, along with a strong understanding of the benefits of physical activity.
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Medium Term Objective: What are the fundamental sporting concepts that are integral to being a succesful and knowledgable sports performer?
7 How do we keep possession using triangles? Using movement and co-ordination, how can we get better at striking an object? As an opponent, how can we respond to this? How can we find space, using width and evasion? How can we use our individual fitness (agility, balance, strength and power) to be healthy and succesful? How do we score? And as an opponent, how do we prevent this? How can we be a successful athlete, with our speed, endurance, jumping and power?
Medium Term Objective: How can we use our fundamental sporting concepts to be a successful and knowledgable sports performer in competition?
8 How do you support teammates whislt trying to go forward and look to penetrate the opposition? How can we improve our co-ordination and movement to strike equipment effectively? How can we use our positions and formations to help defend in numbers? How does our agility, balance, dodging and side-stepping help to improve our performance? How do we communicate effectively to enable creativity and solve problems? How is our performance affected by improving our running for speed, for distance and throwing for accuracy?
Medium Term Objective: Are we able to use our knowledge and fundamental sporting concepts to plan, implement, and evaluate tactics to overcome challenges?
9 How can we plan to dominate possession against opponents? How can we plan to strike equipment in a tactical way to beat an opponent? Whilst in possession, how can we build an attack to go through, round or over an opposition? How can you stop this as a defender? Knowing what we know about health and fitness, can we plan to improve it over time through physical activity? As a defence, how can you plan to restrict opponents and limit their scoring opportunities? Can we analyse and evaluate our technique and plan tactically to run faster, throw further and jump higher?

How do we keep possession using triangles?

Overview

In this unit we will use sports like Futsal, Handball, Netball and Basketball to learn how to keep possession of the ball as a performer, looking at specific skills and how to implement them with success.

Example Key Words

Possession

The state of owning or controlling the ball

Triangles

Working in a triangle with team mates to have options to keep possessions

Touch/Control

The initial first contact with equipment when receiving the ball

Movement

How a performer moves in order to help keep possession

Signalling

Using a gesture or signal with a team mate to indicate where you are moving/where you want to receive a pass

Using movement and co-ordination, how can we get better at striking an object? As an opponent, how can we respond to this?

Overview

Using sports such as Badminton, Table Tennis, Rounders and Cricket, we will look at how to improve our movement and co-ordination to strike a ball/object with equipment with consistency and success. In fielding sports, we will also look at how to deal with this success through effective catching and fielding techniques.

Example Key Words

Overarm

A movement or skill performed overhead

Flight

The direction that a ball/shuttle travels

Rotation

How an individual or piece of equipment turns

Co-ordination

The ability to use two or more body parts together smoothly and efficiently.

Trajectory

The path followed by a ball/shuttle

How can we find space, using width and evasion?

Overview

After learning how to keep possession, using similar sports, we will look at how you use width and evasion techniques to move away from defenders and find space to attack.

Example Key Words

Fake

A movement made by a player in order to trick them

Dummy

A movement made by a player in order to trick them

Dodge

A sudden or quick movement to avoid an opponent

Disguise

Hiding or masking an intended skill to fool an opponent

How can we use our individual fitness (agility, balance, strength and power) to be healthy and succesful?

Overview

In this unit we look at how we can use our individual components such as agility, balance, strength and power to create competent sequences of movements in activities like gymnastics. We will also understand and gain knowledge in how to develop these over time using a training plan in the Fitness Suite.

Example Key Words

Periodisation

The separation of an athletes year into pre season, peak, and post season

Intensity

How hard you train

Overload

Increasing the demands of training on the body

Progression

Gradual increase of the demands of training

Sequence/Routine

An order of movements combined together

Transitions

The period of change from one movement to another

How do we score? And as an opponent, how do we prevent this?

Overview

Once we have found space, the final element to an attack is how to create and then convert scoring opportunities. We will therefore look at techniques used in a variety of sports we use to score points. We will then shift focus onto defense, focusing on how we can restrict an attack and win back possession.

Example Key Words

Press

The action of moving towards or closing down an opponent to apply pressure

Deny space

The act of closing down an opponent to restrict the area they can move or execute a skill in/to

Jockey

Shadowing the movements of an opponent and directing them where you would like them to go

Volley

Striking an object without it bouncing or touching the floor first

Positioning

You placement and location on a court/pitch or within a team

How can we be a successful athlete, with our speed, endurance, jumping and power?

Overview

In this unit we build upon the strength and power used earlier in the year, and transfer it to Athletic disciplines such as long jump, shot put and sprints.

Example Key Words

Run up

The initial distance you travel to gain speed before a skill

Take off

The act of jumping into a skill

Flight (ath)

The position that your body travels through a skill

Landing

The regrounding of your body as you exit a skill

Acceleration

The ability to gain speed in a short space of time

How do you support teammates whislt trying to go forward and look to penetrate the opposition?

Overview

In this unit we will use sports like Futsal, Handball, Netball and Basketball to learn how to support teammates, move forward and penetrate the opposition to score.

Example Key Words

Going Forward

Movement up the pitch/area/court and towards the opposition.

Penetration

Through, over and round the opposing team.

Attack

Threatening movement through the defence towards the goal/net.

Intercepting

Gaining possession from the opposition.

Spatial awareness

Understanding your position (Indivdual and team) and where the opposition and area of play is.

How can we improve our co-ordination and movement to strike equipment effectively?

Overview

Using sports such as Badminton, Table Tennis, Rounders and Cricket, we will look at how our movment and coordination affect our performance and the game scenario. We will also develop tactical knowledge of how best to strike equipment effectively

Example Key Words

Coordination

Ability to use two or more different parts of the body together, smoothly and efficiently.

Movement

The act of changing position or posture.

Kineasthetic

Physical sensations generated by movements are felt by the performer and provide a form of intrinsic feedback.

Timing

Choice, judgement or control of when something should be done.

Aiming

Point or direct towards a target/goal.

How can we use our positions and formations to help defend in numbers?

Overview

After learning how to move forward and penetrate the opposition, we will look at a variety of methods to stop the opposition from attacking

Example Key Words

Formations

The variety of individual positions that contribute to an overall team structure.

Defending in numbers

Having an adequate number of teammates behind play in order to defend effectively.

Zone

The area in which you can play/defend/attack in.

Positions

The individual place for players on a court/pitch/area.

Deny Space

The act of closing down an opponent to restrict the area they can move or execute a skill in/to

How does our agility, balance, dodging and side-stepping help to improve our performance?

Overview

In this unit we will look at how important agility, balance, dodging and side stepping is in a variety of sports. We will focus on how these concepts are important in being able to succeed as an individual or team

Example Key Words

Agility

Ability to move and change direction quickly, at speed, while maintaining control .

Balance

Maintaining the centre of the mass over the base of support. Static or dynamic.

Dodging

The ability to avoid someone or something by sudden movements.

Alignment

The ability to position yourself in a straight line or in correct relative positions.

Posture

The position in which someone holds their body when standing or sitting.

Body tension

The condition in which muscles of the body remain semi-contracted for an extended period of time.

How do we communicate effectively to enable creativity and solve problems?

Overview

Once we have learnt to keep possession, we can discover different ways to maximise the effectiveness of being in control. This will also trasnfer in trying to gain possession and understand what to do to stop the oppostition

Example Key Words

Creativity

The use of imagination or original ideas to work towards an outcome.

Communication

The exchange of information by speaking or using any other medium.

Awareness

The ability to understand what is taking place within your situation.

Vision

The ability to see objects and movement outside the direct line of vision.

Body language

The movements and postures communicated to players.

How is our performance affected by improving our running for speed, for distance and throwing for accuracy?

Overview

In this unit we will develop our understanding of the main factors when looking at improving our running for speed, distance and throwing for accuarcy.

Example Key Words

Speed

Maximum rate ay which an individual is able perform a movement or cover a distance in a period of time.

Throwing for accuracy

Consistent action that reaches its intended target

Targets

Agreed outcomes to be reached by a performer

Strength

The ability to overcome resistance, four types; Maximal strength, static strength, explosive strength and dynamic strength.

Power

The product of strength x speed.

How can we plan to dominate possession against opponents?

Overview

Using our knowledge of keeping possession and how to support team mates through movement, we will focus on how to tactically dominate opposition in order to create scoring opportunities.

Example Key Words

Dominate

A commanding position over opponents

Retention

Continued possession, use, or control of something.

Pressure

Continual physical persuasion to make an opponent do something

Phases

Stages of an attack

How can we plan to strike equipment in a tactical way to beat an opponent?

Overview

With improved co-ordination and movement, how can we use this to our advantage in an advanced way to out manoeuvre our opponents? As an opposition, can we plan tactics to stop this?

Example Key Words

Opportunity

A time of set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something

Spin

Applying a rapid rotation or turning action to an object

Pace

Developing the rate or speed of an object

Accuracy

The quality or accuracy of an action/skill

Power

Strength x speed

Whilst in possession, how can we build an attack to go through, round or over an opposition? How can you stop this as a defender?

Overview

During this element we will look at how to tactically plan how to break down an opposition, and either go through, round or over to score.

Example Key Words

Penetration

The act of going round, through, or over an opponent to score

Lofted

A pass that has a high trajectory

Through ball

A well timed pass that cuts through a defence and allows an attacker to run onto it.

Wings

The wide positions on a team that has space to go round an opponent

Build up

The process and time before an attack, that leads to that attack

Knowing what we know about health and fitness, can we plan to improve it over time through physical activity?

Overview

Incorporating previous knowledge about active healthy lifestyles and the fundamentals of training, can students plan their own programme and evaluate its effectiveness?

Example Key Words

Frequency

How often you train

Intensity

How hard you train.

Time

How long you train.

Type

The specific method of training you use

RPE

Rate of perceived exertion. How much effort from a scale of 1-10 you put into an exercise

Reps

The number of times an exercise is performed.

As a defence, how can you plan to restrict opponents and limit their scoring opportunities?

Overview

Using team mates, how can a student tactically set themselves up to deal with oppositions threats and win back possession?

Example Key Words

Communication

The exchange of information by speaking or using any other medium.

Zonal/zone marking

Defending whilst marking a specific area (zone) or space.

Man-to-man

Specifically marking a particular opponent and preventing them from gaining an advantage.

Reading of the game

The ability to spot movements/attacks before they happen and stopping them.

Can we analyse and evaluate our technique and plan tactically to run faster, throw further and jump higher?

Overview

With the mindset of a full competition, can students use their knowledge of techniques to make fine adjustments and and perform to a higher standard? Can they analyse their result and evaluate their performance?

Example Key Words

Adjustments

Being able to make changes to small actions within a skill or movement to be better.

Analysis

Using information of results and performance to decide on effectiveness of a performance.

Consistency of performance

Ensuring that performance is consistent with few errors that lead to faults.

Sports psychology

Mental rehearsal, visualisation and imagery. Techniques used to focus, relax, and imagine positive outcomes in your performance.