KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Capture the flag
Outdoor adventurous activities: physical and intellectual challenges
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can work as a team to mobilise a strategy and reflect on individual contributions.
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Capture the flag: 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 work as a team to mobilise a strategy and reflect on individual contributions.
Key learning points
- Move: rapid hip and knee flexion enables you to duck and avoid capture.
- Move: controlled slow and steady movements will help us stay in time with others.
- Think: adjusting plans in response to the opposition's actions improves our chance of success.
- Feel: stretching yourself beyond your comfort zone helps develop confidence in situations.
- Connect: we must sometimes take the lesser roles to secure overall success by the team.
Words to know
- strategy
- a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
- contribution
- the part played by a person in achieving the overall result
- pacing
- the controlled speed and rhythm of our movements
Common mistakes
All players are desperate to get the opposition's treasure so they have a high risk of getting caught and neglecting the protection of their own treasure.
Let pupils do it however they like first but then give time to regroup and plan a smarter team strategy.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Maximise engagement by making groups smaller and playing 2 games of capture the flag side by side