KS3 · Physical education · Year 9
Respond to challenges with persistence and focus
Invasion games: adapt tactics and strategies in contact sports
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Your learning goal
I can remain focused under pressure and respond to challenges with determination.
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Respond to challenges with persistence and focus: 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 remain focused under pressure and respond to challenges with determination.
Key learning points
- Move: positioning your body side on to the attacker helps you make a legal tackle without losing balance.
- Move: use an open hand to knock the ball out of your opponent’s hands when tackling.
- Think: anticipating where your opponent may move to helps you get into position early and make an effective tackle.
- Feel: timing the tackle is challenging and takes determination to keep trying, even if you miss the first attempt.
- Connect: showing respect and kindness to others is harder when under pressure.
Words to know
- Gaelic football
- a team sport where players try to score by kicking or punching a ball into a goal or over a crossbar.
- tackle
- when you try to win the ball by flicking or knocking it away when it’s not close to the opponent’s body
- determination
- the ability to keep trying and not give up, even when things are hard
Common mistakes
Pupils think if they miss a tackle, they should just give up.
Pupils need to show determination to chase back and continue to pressure the attack, even if they miss a tackle.
For parents, carers and teachers
- There is the option to spend more time on any of these topics as appropriate in the context of your learners as this lesson links closely to the Y9 Gaelic football Unit.