My personal best
I can perform a range of fitness related activities and identify areas of fitness that I can do well and where I need to improve.
My personal best
I can perform a range of fitness related activities and identify areas of fitness that I can do well and where I need to improve.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: taking part in activities that build fitness gives us awareness of our personal fitness and what can be improved.
- Think: reflecting on our fitness during fitness challenges is important to help recognise our fitness improvements.
- Feel: striving to focus on all areas of fitness helps to develop personal integrity towards our health.
- Connect: striving to support one another through fitness assessments develops cooperation and trust.
Keywords
Measurement - quantifies how much, how long, how heavy or how fast something is
Challenge - a demand on the body that would exceed our normal effort
Improve - to make better or to increase quality
Common misconception
Your fitness is fixed and cannot be changed.
Fitness can improve slowly and over time. Measuring our fitness only tells us what we can do on that day.
To help you plan your year 5 physical education lesson on: My personal best, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 5 physical education lesson on: My personal best, 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 unit, dive into the full primary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Long measuring sticks or tape measures (1 between 2); stop watches (1 between 2); cones (1 between 2); lesson worksheet
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
