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Mr Imrie’s new PE blog can be accessed here.

This week we have discussed feedback during our practical lessons. Feedback can be verbal, written or visual (a demonstration).

Describe one skill or technique where you have been given verbal, written or visual feedback and describe how it benefited you.

Enjoy your weekend and I will see you Monday.

Mr Imrie

To practise skills a player will use a series of drills which concentrate on that skill.

Task

Choose an activity and a skill from that activity. Describe a drill you used in detail to practise that skill.

Finally write a short paragraph describing this technique. Use the following when describing your technique

• Preperation
• Action
• Recovery

This task is set for Homework and has to be completed by the end of the holiday.

The Standard Grade PE blog has been up and running for over 6 months now and has been used frequently in class and at home. Please answer the following questions, in detail, regarding using ‘the blog.’

1. Can you list 3 benefits of having the blog?
2. Do you think the blog helps you learn?
3. Would you benefit from having a blog in other subjects?
4. Is there anything you do not like about the blog?

Thanks, Mr Imrie

Hi class,

Please note change of activities to PE classes -

•  Monday will be Gymnastics - boys gym, floor work.
•  Tuesday will be Gymnastics – girls gym, apparatus.

Your task today is, with your partner, begin to design a floor routine that you will start to perform in Monday’s class. Your routine should include the following

1. Balances.
2. Rotation.
3. Flight.
4. Change of direction.
5. Inversion.

Leave a comment to this post describing your routine. Think about BOSS (body, order, shape, speed) when you are describing your movements.

To be finished as homework for Monday 10th March. 

Mr Imrie

Evaluating has 2 parts

• Describing a perfromance – which means stating what you see.
• Analysing a performance – which means studying the action closely to identify its good and bad points.

Leave a reply to this post –  describe a shot in badminton, giving a clear detailed desciption of how you perform the action. For example you could describe a high serve, or an overhead clear or a smash. Think about the following when describing the performance.

• Body- Parts being used and the direction they move.
• Order – In what order do these parts move.
• Shape – what shape are the parts moved through (bent, straight, curled).
• Speed – At what speed do the movements take place.

To be completed by Monday 3rd March. Any problems to access blog see Mr Imrie by Friday 29th February.

Next week - Monday- Athletics;  Tuesday – Gymnastics

• Aspects of Fitness
• Warm-up/down
• Principles of training
• Methods/types of training
• Body structure
• Joints
• Oxygen Transport System

It is advised that you use all your PE resources to help you study this includes the PE wiki , the blog – including podcasts, powerpoints, and previous posts, your red folder and your PE book (pages 37 – 72)

You can also access online Revision Notes and Revision Tests here.

Good luck.

If you need to ask any questions, please feel free to reply to this post. I will check for comments regularly before the test.

• What are the 3 main functions of the skeleton?
• What is the difference between a hinge joint and  ball and socket joint? Can you give an example of each joint?
• Describe 3 benefits of regular exercise on your heart.

A full study guide will be posted on the blog shortly.