KS2 · Physical education · Year 3
Formations and contrast: prepositions
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Your learning goal
I can use prepositions to arrange my position when working with others.
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Formations and contrast: prepositions: 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 use prepositions to arrange my position when working with others.
Key learning points
- Move: moving around others requires us to be precise in our actions.
- Move: using a range of formations to create different actions requires precision and control.
- Think: responding to the shapes and actions of others involves ongoing decision making.
- Feel: taking turns requires patience and self-discipline.
- Connect: a performance can communicate different ideas to different people in the audience.
Words to know
- formation
- the position the performers are placed in
- contrast
- distinctly different
- preposition
- a word that indicates where something is relative to something else
Common mistakes
Pupils think that prepositions are only used in writing.
Prepositions describe how things are arranged relative to other people or objects, so they can be used in all subject areas.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For pupils who are unable to use physical contact, avoid using prepositions that imply contact such as against, adjoining, upon.