KS3 · Physical education · Year 7
Creating space
Invasion games: basic tactics to overcome opponents in donor sports
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can create space and use it to build an attack
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Creating space: 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 create space and use it to build an attack
Key learning points
- Move: drawing the defender outwards or running wide is an effective way of creating space.
- Think: understanding the importance of creating space will increase success in invasion games.
- Think: being part of a team and participating in physical activity is good for your mental health.
- Feel: taking responsibility for ourselves and our team mates develops confidence and leads to success.
- Connect: communication skills are developed by calling and signalling for the ball.
Words to know
- draw a defender
- causing a defender to move towards you (also a tie or equal score in a game)
- dummy
- used to deceive the opposition into thinking you will pass, shoot or move in a certain direction
- width
- the area on the sides of the pitch or court
Common mistakes
Crowding around the ball
By taking the ball out into the wide channels on a pitch/court, you draw defenders out of their area and create space elsewhere to pass to your own players and make an attack on goal.
For parents, carers and teachers
- This lesson can be repeated with the same practices but utilising different balls and rules dictated by the class. If using rugby, you will want to overload the attack further and obviously need to run rather than pass forwards into the next zone.