Key Processes in Physical Key Processes in Physical EducationEducation

Developing skills and techniquesDeveloping skills and techniques

Decision makingDecision making

Physical and mental capacityPhysical and mental capacity

Evaluating and improvingEvaluating and improving

Making informed choices about Making informed choices about active, healthy lifestylesactive, healthy lifestyles

Developing skills in physical activityDeveloping skills in physical activityRefine and adapt skills Refine and adapt skills into techniques. E.g. into techniques. E.g. to develop the to develop the technique of serving in technique of serving in tennis you need to co-tennis you need to co-ordinate the throw up ordinate the throw up of the ball, and your of the ball, and your body and arm body and arm movements to strike movements to strike the ballthe ball

Developing skills in physical activityDeveloping skills in physical activity

You also need to develop a range of You also need to develop a range of different skills. E.g. in circuit trainingdifferent skills. E.g. in circuit training

Developing skills in physical activityDeveloping skills in physical activity

You also need to You also need to develop precision, develop precision, control and fluency control and fluency in skills. E.g. in skills. E.g. shooting in shooting in basketballbasketball

Practise, practise, Practise, practise, practise!practise!

Making and applying decisionsMaking and applying decisions

Ability to select and use tactics, Ability to select and use tactics, strategies and compositional ideas strategies and compositional ideas effectively in different creative, effectively in different creative, competitive and challenge-type competitive and challenge-type contextscontexts

Choose the right Choose the right skills to show the skills to show the judges in a judges in a gymnastics floor gymnastics floor routineroutine

Refine and adapt Refine and adapt ideas and plans in ideas and plans in response to response to changing changing circumstances. E.g. circumstances. E.g. put on an extra put on an extra forward if you are forward if you are losing with not long losing with not long to go.to go.

Plan and implement what needs practising Plan and implement what needs practising to be able to perform more effectively. E.g. to be able to perform more effectively. E.g. practise your tackling in rugby training to practise your tackling in rugby training to improve your defenceimprove your defence

Recognising Recognising hazards and hazards and making decisions making decisions about how to about how to control risks to control risks to yourself and yourself and others. E.g. others. E.g. whether to play on whether to play on a frozen football a frozen football pitchpitch

Developing physical and mental Developing physical and mental capacitycapacity

Developing the Developing the strength, speed, strength, speed, stamina and stamina and flexibility (by flexibility (by following a fitness following a fitness programme) to programme) to cope with the cope with the demands of demands of different activities.different activities.

Having the mental Having the mental determination to determination to stick with a training stick with a training programme and programme and succeedsucceed

Evaluating and improvingEvaluating and improvingThis involves being This involves being able to analyse able to analyse performance in performance in physical activities physical activities and identify and identify strengths and strengths and weaknessesweaknesses

Also making Also making decisions about decisions about how to improve how to improve your own and your own and others others performance and performance and acting on these acting on these decisions. E.g. decisions. E.g. working hard in working hard in training to improve training to improve your shootingyour shooting

Making informed choices about Making informed choices about healthy, active lifestyleshealthy, active lifestyles

Identifying the Identifying the types of physical types of physical activity that are activity that are best suited to you best suited to you and the types of and the types of role you might like role you might like to take onto take on

Making a choice about healthy Making a choice about healthy physical activityphysical activity

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Key Processes inPhysical Education

Developing skills Making and applying

decisions

Developing physical

And mental capacity

Evaluating and improving Making informed choices about healthy, active lifestyles