KS3 · Physical education · Year 9
Your strengths as an athlete
Athletics: fitness development of pace or power
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can identify and explain my personal strengths as an athlete.
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Your strengths as an athlete: 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 identify and explain my personal strengths as an athlete.
Key learning points
- Move: driving hard against the ground in the first strides helps you accelerate quickly at the start of a sprint.
- Move: settling into a relaxed rhythm early helps you to stay controlled and pace your 800m effectively.
- Think: assessing how your body responds to different levels of intensity enables you to make informed decisions.
- Feel: reflecting on your own abilities and limitations can provide a focus for self-improvement.
- Connect: helping others by timing their benchmarking supports accuracy and builds mutual respect.
Words to know
- reflection
- thinking about your performance to help make decisions and improve
- personal strengths
- the skills or qualities that make you good at certain tasks, like sprinting or pacing
- benchmark
- a starting point or measurement you can compare to later
Common mistakes
Pupils might believe that benchmarking times represent their fixed ability and that their times won’t change.
Encourage pupils to understand that benchmarking is a snapshot in time - a starting point that effort and hard work can improve (growth mindset).
For parents, carers and teachers
- This unit is ideal for those considering GCSE PE as a KS4 option. It could be taught to those pupils while others do more traditional atheltics. Lesson 1 worksheet collates all worksheets needed for the unit and can be printed as a workbook rather than printing individual worksheets each lesson.