Striking and fielding games: striking and fielding skills through cricket

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Move: movement competence

Think: knowledge of rules, tactics, strategies and compositional ideas

Why this why now

This unit will build on pupils’ prior understanding of batting and fielding and the skills and tactics required for both the batting and fielding team. In this unit, pupils will apply their learning so far through the game of cricket and understand how to develop competence in performing cricket specific skills when batting and fielding. A particular focus throughout the unit will be on creating and adapting tactics for batting, bowling and fielding, reflecting on the tactics and making any necessary adaptations in order to ensure the tactics are as effective as possible.

Prior knowledge requirements

Pupils can strike a ball into space.
Pupils know why we send a ball into space.
Pupils can throw accurately underarm and overarm and understand why this is important.
Pupils are able to play by the rules, including the rules of racing rounders.
Pupils understand the role of the batting team.
Pupils understand the role of the fielding team.
Pupils can create simple batting focused tactics and strategies to overcome their opponent.
Pupils can create simple fielding tactics and strategies to overcome their opponent.

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Move: movement competence

Think: knowledge of rules, tactics, strategies and compositional ideas

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Why this why now

This unit will build on pupils’ prior understanding of batting and fielding and the skills and tactics required for both the batting and fielding team. In this unit, pupils will apply their learning so far through the game of cricket and understand how to develop competence in performing cricket specific skills when batting and fielding. A particular focus throughout the unit will be on creating and adapting tactics for batting, bowling and fielding, reflecting on the tactics and making any necessary adaptations in order to ensure the tactics are as effective as possible.

Prior knowledge requirements

Pupils can strike a ball into space.
Pupils know why we send a ball into space.
Pupils can throw accurately underarm and overarm and understand why this is important.
Pupils are able to play by the rules, including the rules of racing rounders.
Pupils understand the role of the batting team.
Pupils understand the role of the fielding team.
Pupils can create simple batting focused tactics and strategies to overcome their opponent.
Pupils can create simple fielding tactics and strategies to overcome their opponent.