KS3 · Physical education · Year 9
Build resilience
Health and wellbeing: healthy leadership and effective reviewing skills
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Your learning goal
I can demonstrate resilience and focus through a challenging HIIT session.
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Build resilience: 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 demonstrate resilience and focus through a challenging HIIT session.
Key learning points
- Move: completing a HIIT workout requires the correct technique for energy efficiency, to prevent quick fatigue.
- Think: knowing how HIIT training can improve fitness like speed, power and aerobic endurance, improves performance.
- Feel: overcoming a challenge builds resilience and leaves you feeling proud for continuing when it was hard.
- Connect: resilient leaders inspire others to overcome challenges fostering a sense of shared strength and determination.
Words to know
- resilience
- the ability to keep going even when it is difficult
- focus
- concentrating on the task without being distracted
- challenge
- a difficult task or situation that requires effort and skill to overcome
Common mistakes
Pupils think HIIT is only for experienced athletes.
HIIT can be modified to suit all fitness levels. It can be a valuable and quick tool to improve many components of fitness. The intervals can be shorter for beginners and the exercises less intense.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The lesson uses an example HIIT session. Please use alternatives such as 'just dance' or programmed cardiovascular machines or example HIIT videos.

