KS2 · Physical education · Year 6
Team athletics competition
Athletics: athletic challenges refined
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Your learning goal
I can help to organise my team as well as take part in running, jumping and throwing events.
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Team athletics competition: 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 help to organise my team as well as take part in running, jumping and throwing events.
Key learning points
- Move: to consistently improve in a competition, we must perform with the correct technique for running and field events.
- Think: in a team competition we select individuals to perform in certain events depending on their strengths.
- Think: we create tactics as a team and apply these to our athletic events to score points and win the competition.
- Feel: performing as part of a team helps to build a sense of trust and belonging.
- Connect: we help our team stay motivated by communicating, ensuring everyone is involved and enjoying the competition.
Words to know
- team
- a group of people who work together to achieve the same goal
- performance
- how well we are able to execute a skill such as running, throwing or jumping
- events
- competitive activities, for example in athletics, we test physical abilities such as speed, strength, endurance and agility.
Common mistakes
Pupils believe that only the selected pupil performing in the event needs to focus on it.
Ensure that pupils understand that the whole team has a part to play in each event. Helping with tactics, motivating and encouraging each other are ways they can all be involved.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Ensure that everyone in the class has performed in a minimum of 1 and a maxiumum of 3 events in this lesson. When creating the teams, where possible, use mixed gender and mixed ability/experience teams. Carry out the competition in event order. Pupils not competing should support their teammates.