Football skills

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Sports Tournaments History of Football

Objectives

PE

  • Play competitive games, modified where appropriate, (e.g. badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis), and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.

PSHE

  • Reflect on and celebrate their achievements, identify their strengths, areas for improvement, set high aspirations and goals.
  • Learn about taking care of their body.

Science

  • Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function.

Lesson Planning

Discuss what skills footballers need to play the game effectively. Try out some footballers training drills. Measure how they affect the body. Work out some training exercises they could do to improve their game.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To devise and undertake some training exercises.
  • To measure how training exercises affect their body.

Children will:

  • Explain the effects of exercise.
  • Explain why sports people warm up before playing.
  • Complete warm-up exercises.

You Will Need

  • Stopwatches
  • Hoops
  • Cones.