Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 11
- Year 11
The race of your life
I can prepare my body and partake in the 5km running event.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: keeping your head upright, looking forward, maintains a straight spine and improves breathing even when tired.
- Think: maintaining a steady, sustainable pace helps you keep going without needing to stop or walk.
- Think: appreciate that skills and abilities gained from this training that can be applied beyond the PE environment.
- Feel: pushing through fatigue to keep going and succeed brings a strong sense of achievement.
- Connect: congratulating others on their performance, regardless of their 5km time, promotes good sportspersonship.
Keywords
Preparation - getting ready for something by organising and practising in advance
Etiquette - set of unwritten rules, often described as a code of conduct
Endurance - the ability to sustain exercise for an extended period of time without fatigue
Common misconception
Pupils think the race is about placing and running in the fastest time.
Yes placings are given, but the key focus is to complete the race in a time that you know is representative of you working to the best of your ability.
To help you plan your year 11 physical education lesson on: The race of your life, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 11 physical education lesson on: The race of your life, 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 4 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: HIIT and couch to 5k team challenges to develop fitness unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
stopwatches, post it notes, pens
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
