Your current fitness and goals
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can assess my current fitness and use SMART targets to design suitable goals for my training.
Key learning points
- Move: fitness testing with maximum effort allows for strengths and areas for improvement to be identified.
- Move: when drawing on a larger scale, we can develop our arm strength and precision.
- Think: comparing fitness test results to national averages helps identify where to focus training.
- Feel: acknowledging areas of fitness that are a strength boosts confidence and feels good.
- Connect: celebrating your peers' achievements enables you to support their development.
Keywords
Testing - the process of measuring physical abilities such as strength to assess overall fitness levels
Smart targets - a goal should be: specific, measurable, achievable, recorded and timed
Assessment - evaluating your current level of fitness
Common misconception
Feeling disappointed if some fitness test results fall below national average.
We all have different strengths and weaknesses and this is why we train to improve our areas of weakness.
Teacher tip
Try to work in a space that has an available wall for the vertical jump test and is long enough for the 30m sprint test. Consider growth spurts in discussions around national level standrds.
Equipment
Chalk, cones, meter ruler, stopwatches, athletics tape measure or wheel measure, tennis balls, sit and reach box.
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.If we are working at full capacity, what must we not compromise to prevent injury?
Q2.Why is it good to share ideas with others when planning our training?
Q3.How could you progressively overload a 6 minute run?
Q4.What does progressive overload provide to ensure we develop?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Why must we apply maximum effort in fitness testing?
Q2.Why is it important to celebrate others' achievements?
Q3.We all have different strengths and weaknesses. How should we feel if we fall below national average in a test?
Q4.Why is it important to recognise areas of our fitness that are a strength?
To help you plan your 10 physical education lesson on: Your current fitness and goals, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 10 physical education lesson on: Your current fitness and goals, 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.
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