KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Trials and team selection for a sport education season
Athletics: train and perform in a sport education season
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Your learning goal
I can take part in a range of athletics activities and identify where my confidence levels are.
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Trials and team selection for a sport education season: 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 take part in a range of athletics activities and identify where my confidence levels are.
Key learning points
- Move: an optimal stride balances speed and efficiency, with each foot landing under your body, reducing injury risk.
- Think: having a positive mindset to trying a range of activities helps to understand your physical activity preferences.
- Feel: trying new activities helps to build self-belief in your ability to perform.
- Connect: recognising when athletes give their best, regardless of outcome, will help to build confidence and motivation.
Words to know
- mindset
- staying positive, focused and determined, believing in your ability to improve and succeed, even when finding things difficult
- effort
- trying your hardest, staying determined and working hard to do your best, no matter what the outcome is
- sporting behaviour
- competing fairly, following rules, respecting everyone, cheering others on and accepting wins or losses positively
Common mistakes
A trial is where people are judged to see who makes the cut and who doesn't.
A trial is an opportunity for everyone to show what they can do and also learn where they could focus on as priority areas for improvement.
For parents, carers and teachers
- This lesson is a diagnostic assessment of prior learning on basic pacing, sprinting, jumping and throwing to inform future groupings to ensure balanced competition for the remainder of the sport education season. It works well to introduce all learning cycles and rotate pupils on a carousel.