KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Effective court movement and strategic thinking through throw badminton
Net and wall games: technical proficiency and problem solving through badminton
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Your learning goal
I can move quickly and with precision to cover the court well.
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Effective court movement and strategic thinking through throw badminton: 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 move quickly and with precision to cover the court well.
Key learning points
- Move: lunging around the court and back to the middle makes it easier to win points.
- Think: returning the ball/shuttle quickly and into space reduces your opponent's time to recover from the last shot.
- Think: easy points can be won by leaving the ball/shuttle when it is going out.
- Feel: commitment to play by the rules requires self-motivation and will make games more enjoyable.
- Connect: supporting one another to progress requires being respectful and giving feedback kindly.
Words to know
- precision
- being calculated and accurate
- strategies
- a plan of action to achieve an overall aim
- flight
- the path of the ball/shuttlecock in the air
Common mistakes
Pupils use short steps and run through as they hit the shuttle which leaves them out of position for the next shot.
Using long lunges and recovering back to the middle of the court quickly between each shot reduces the space and options available to your opposition.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Tie additional nets or tape to extend the nets between courts so you get more pupils working at the same time. Two use each half court and two more use the tramlines and gap between the courts with a make shift net. Just remember to keep rotating who is using which space and safe pratice distances.