KS4 · Physical education · Year 10
Shot
Non-examined assessment: athletics practical
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can send the shot as far as I possibly can, maintaining a legal technique throughout.
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What you’ll learn
I can send the shot as far as I possibly can, maintaining a legal technique throughout.
Key learning points
- Move: sending the shot requires an explosive ‘corkscrew’ sequence from knee to hips to chest.
- Move: sit the shot in the fingers to ensure ‘clean palm, dirty neck’ and the elbow high to push behind the ball.
- Think: self-talk in the moments prior to throwing can help increase focus and performance.
- Feel: commitment to executing the put with maximum force will ensure each thrower’s maximal result.
- Connect: using good communication when helping a peer to improve technical errors will increase their chance of success.
Words to know
- corkscrew
- a spiral motion in which body parts move one after the other
- explosive
- rapid and forceful application of power during the throw
- push
- the action required to send a shot safely and legally
Common mistakes
Pupils often throw the shot by leading with the elbow rather than push it with the elbow following behind the shot, which can sometimes lead to pain and injury, especially to the wrist.
Emphasise the need to push the shot by extending the arm and not trying to bring the shot behind the head to throw. Replace shot with lighter weighted balls (medicine) if necessary to avoid injury while the technique is being learned.
For parents, carers and teachers
- A command style/safety-first approach is required. Be clear on instructions to leave no doubt about when you are happy for pupils to release, collect and carry the shot back to the approopriate area. This lesson assumes no throwing cage is available therefore only standing throw technique is used.