KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Training in teams for personal bests in sprint events
Athletics: train and perform in a sport education season
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Your learning goal
I can work with a team, with support, to improve my personal best in sprinting.
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Training in teams for personal bests in sprint events: 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 work with a team, with support, to improve my personal best in sprinting.
Key learning points
- Move: an upright body position with arms swinging in coordination with leg movements produces an efficient technique.
- Move: staying relaxed enables stride length and frequency to be maintained.
- Think: cooperating within a team by sharing ideas and offering support creates a positive learning environment.
- Feel: challenging yourself to race builds confidence when performing under pressure.
- Connect: agreeing on roles within the group develops a sense of belonging and worth for all.
Words to know
- teamwork
- working together with others in the team to help each other improve performance
- cooperation
- listening, sharing and working well with others during practice to improve as a group and achieve better results
- anaerobic
- physical activity that is performed at such high intensity that your body's demand for oxygen exceeds the oxygen supply available
Common mistakes
Everyone's sprinting technique should look the same.
Everyone will have their own natural style of running. Forcing pupils to be too upright for example may be sub optimal for some. Pupils should find their natural position which may include a slight lean.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Before this lesson, think carefully about the teams you put together using the data generated in lesson 1 to ensure a mix of abilities, personalities and equal likelihood of success as a team.