KS3 · Physical education · Year 9
Pressure and emotion
Striking and fielding: officiating your own small sided cricket games
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Your learning goal
I can regulate my emotions under pressure to play sport in a fun and competitive way.
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Pressure and emotion: 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 regulate my emotions under pressure to play sport in a fun and competitive way.
Key learning points
- Move: wicket keepers need to position themselves crouched low and ready to move quickly and catch.
- Think: wicket keeping is a high pressure role in which you must focus fully on every ball.
- Think: deep breathing or counting to 10 are methods of controlling emotions and keeping at your best under pressure.
- Feel: joy and sadness are to be expected when winning or losing in a game, but understand it does not define you.
- Connect: when others have won or lost, it is important to show empathy to all involved.
Words to know
- pressure (in sport)
- mental and physical stress athletes feel from high expectations or wanting to perform well
- emotion
- a feeling you experience in response to different situations, people or events - these can be positive or negative
- regulate
- control or manage your emotions during stressful or high pressure situations
Common mistakes
When wicket keeping, pupils have a tendency to stand right up to the wickets, no matter how fast the bowler is. This means they can't react quick enough to faster balls.
Pupils should understand that they can adjust the distance between wicket keeper and stumps, depending on the speed of the bowler, so they are catching the ball around thigh height. There is no standard wicket keeper position.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Divide groups according to space available. Scenarios can comfortably be used in mixed ability groups but may be more effective with 3 separate groups for each of the difficulty levels.