- Year 6
Staying active, fit and healthy with others
I can work with others and encourage my peers whilst we develop our fitness together.
- Year 6
Staying active, fit and healthy with others
I can work with others and encourage my peers whilst we develop our fitness together.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: different movements challenge our bodies in different ways and require different components of fitness.
- Think: making appropriate choices about the type of activity we do can help us to reach our goals.
- Feel: knowing my own strengths and striving to make improvements requires self-motivation.
- Connect: acting as a role model and encouraging others helps everyone to be successful.
Keywords
Challenge - hard to do and an opportunity to learn
Motivation - reason or desire to do something, often driven by curiosity, interest or the promise of rewards
Encourage - to offer support, confidence and belief
Common misconception
Some pupils might think that activities for fitness are always solo tasks that don't encourage social interaction.
Being active with others can have lots of benefits, e.g. increased motivation, encouragement from others, and confidence. All these benefits combined, can encourage individuals to be more active, more often, resulting in increased activity levels.
To help you plan your year 6 physical education lesson on: Staying active, fit and healthy with others, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 6 physical education lesson on: Staying active, fit and healthy with others, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
Explore more key stage 2 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility refined unit, dive into the full primary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
30+ cones, 3 benches
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
