KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Balanced competition
Inclusive sports: teamship, communication and awareness of others
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Your learning goal
I can respectfully participate in balanced competition.
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Balanced competition: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can respectfully participate in balanced competition.
Key learning points
- Move: taking smaller steps and keeping a low centre of mass when cornering in a slalom will help to maintain balance.
- Think: to overcome conditions that are placed upon an individual or a team, problem solving and teamwork is required.
- Feel: embracing challenges will enable you to make more progress, building a greater sense of achievement.
- Connect: adapting competitive situations to make them more balanced maintains motivation and enjoyment levels.
Words to know
- balanced competition
- conditions are applied to teams or individuals to ensure fairness and equal chances of winning
- respect
- regard for the feelings, wishes or rights of others
- challenge
- something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person's ability
Common mistakes
Pupils seek the easiest opportunity to guarantee a win.
Winning an unfair or unbalanced race/competition is a hollow victory and greater satisfaction comes from winning a balanced contest where both individuals/teams have a good chance of winning.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Reward effort over outcome. Encourage pupils to make the decision to maximise challenge in favour of choosing the path of least resistence to maximise the chance of winning. This will develop a culture of challenge and risk taking where a positive mindset is more important than performance levels.