KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Playing smart with the ball in your hands
Invasion games: tactics and strategies to outwit opponents in donor sports
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Your learning goal
I can keep possession through fast, accurate passing and movement off the ball.
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Playing smart with the ball in your hands: 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 keep possession through fast, accurate passing and movement off the ball.
Key learning points
- Move: creating space successfully requires running into wide or deep positions.
- Move: penetrating the defence is achieved by getting behind defenders both with and without the ball.
- Think: dispersal is about creating space by using width and depth, whereas penetration is getting behind the opposition.
- Feel: recognise and understand your own emotions/abilities and how they affect others requires self-awareness.
- Connect: communicating with team mates and signalling for the ball, enables effective passing and ball retention.
Words to know
- penetration
- exploiting spaces between and behind the defenders, both with and without the ball
- screen
- a blocking move by an attacking player to free up a teammate
- interception
- stealing the ball from your opposition when it has been passed
Common mistakes
Pupils attack territory down the middle of the court or pitch and it becomes crowded.
By using accurate passing and movement of the ball out wide, you draw defenders out and create more space to invade. Similarly, by moving the ball back and then forward again, you can create more space.
For parents, carers and teachers
- This lesson can be delivered using handballs, netballs or basketballs and is typically best if you give freedom to the pupils to select a ball of choice for their group.