KS2 · Physical education · Year 5
Evaluating sprinting: personal bests
Athletics: enhanced athletic challenges
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Your learning goal
I can evaluate my own and others sprinting technique and make suggestions as to how we can improve our performance throughout the race.
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Evaluating sprinting: personal bests: 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 evaluate my own and others sprinting technique and make suggestions as to how we can improve our performance throughout the race.
Key learning points
- Move: applying the correct technique at different stages of a race can help us to sprint faster.
- Move: changing our stride length in different stages of the race can help improve acceleration and maintain speed.
- Think: if we slow down before the end of a sprinting race and don't dip at the line we are likely to be overtaken.
- Feel: staying positive if we don't beat our personal best shows good control of our emotions.
- Connect: providing others with constructive feedback on their strengths and weaknesses can help improve technique.
Words to know
- race
- a competition where runners compete to see who can run the fastest over a certain distance.
- technique
- the method we use to perform a task
- speed
- a measure of how quickly we move from one point to another
Common mistakes
Pupils sometimes think that holding their breath or shallow breathing helps them focus or exert more power.
Ensure pupils stay relaxed when sprinting and understand that deep rhythmic breaths will help their muscles recieve more oxygen to generate energy.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Sprinting involves accelerating at the start of a race, maintaining speed in the middle and dipping the body forwards at the end.