KS4 · Physical education · Year 11
The race of your life
Health and wellbeing: HIIT and couch to 5k team challenges to develop fitness
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can prepare my body and partake in the 5km running event.
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The race of your life: 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 prepare my body and partake in the 5km running event.
Key learning points
- Move: keeping your head upright, looking forward, maintains a straight spine and improves breathing even when tired.
- Think: maintaining a steady, sustainable pace helps you keep going without needing to stop or walk.
- Think: appreciate that skills and abilities gained from this training that can be applied beyond the PE environment.
- Feel: pushing through fatigue to keep going and succeed brings a strong sense of achievement.
- Connect: congratulating others on their performance, regardless of their 5km time, promotes good sportspersonship.
Words to know
- preparation
- getting ready for something by organising and practising in advance
- etiquette
- set of unwritten rules, often described as a code of conduct
- endurance
- the ability to sustain exercise for an extended period of time without fatigue
Common mistakes
Pupils think the race is about placing and running in the fastest time.
Yes placings are given, but the key focus is to complete the race in a time that you know is representative of you working to the best of your ability.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The lesson has been written with the colour run or race for life in mind. You may want to set the challenge of the pupils raising the profile of why they are participating in the event to the year group or whole school.