KS2 · Physical education · Year 3

Passing and moving to create space

Invasion games: principles of attack and defence through ball games

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Your learning goal

I can work with my team to maintain possession and score points by making effective decisions.

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Passing and moving to create 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 work with my team to maintain possession and score points by making effective decisions.

Key learning points

Move: passing accurately to maintain possession and score requires moving into space quickly, creating passing options.
Move: passing accurately to maintain possession and score requires aiming at our team mate's target.
Think: deciding on the best passing option enables our team to keep possession and score.
Feel: enjoying working hard shows self motivation, which is essential to supporting our team's success.
Connect: playing by the rules and encouraging others shows respect towards both our own team as well as the opposition.

Words to know

score: the points that determine who is winning in a game
possession: the team in control of the ball
maintain: to take care of something so it keeps working well

Common mistakes

Pupils will try and make a pass to score from too far away. Pupils run into the endzone boxes to receive a pass too early and are just standing still in the box.

Encourage pupils to be closer to the scoring zones before trying to make a pass to score. Explain that if we just stand in the box, we aren't helping our team with a passing option.

For parents, carers and teachers

Select your preferred focus (hands, feet, sticks). To extend the challenge further and/or if you have a small space, create mini tournament style set ups, whereby two teams play and one team officiates, then they rotate.