Year 6 Hockey
Choose and implement a range of strategies and tactics. Combine and perform more complex skills at great speed. Recognise and describe good individual and team performances.
Knowledge Organiser
Prior Learning
Developed passing, dribbling and shooting skills. Can confidently select and apply basic skills in a game situation. Learnt ways of marking and defending.
Unit Focus
Choose and implement a range of strategies and tactics. Combine and perform more complex skills at great speed. Recognise and describe good individual and team performances.
We are learning...
- to shoot under pressure from close range.
- when a long corner is awarded and to take a long corner in a game
- to use goal-side marking to prevent an attacker from getting closer to the goal.
- to use a banana run to force an oncoming attacker out wide.
- to use a hit-out to successfully restart a game
- Indian dribble and to play competitively using new skills.
Key Questions
- What set plays did you use in a game, and were they successful?
- When would you use Indian Dribble in a game situation?
- What strategies did your team use to defend?
Equipment
Sticks, a range of balls (hard, foam or quicksticks balls), cones, goals, bibs, stopwatch.
Vocabulary
Power, distance, perform, consistent, fair play, tackle, covering, supporting.
Rules
- Implement a long corner for any ball unintentionally hit off the back line by the defence.
- If the attacking team hits the ball of the back line, take a hit out.
Assessment Overview
Head – Choose and implement a range of strategies to attack and defend.
Hand – Shoot from close range.
Heart – Use and apply boundary rules such as corners, self pass and sideline.
Diagram
Lesson Overview
Year 6 Hockey Lesson 1
- Play the role of both the defender and the attacker
- Shoot from close range
- Score points against opposition
We are learning: to shoot under pressure from close range Activity: Assessment for Learning Task
Year 6 Hockey Lesson 2
- Can explain why a long corner is awarded
- Can participate in a long corner routine
- Can explain and attempt to use the self-pass rule
We are learning: when a long corner is awarded, and to take a long corner in a game
Activity: Long Corner Set Plays
Year 6 Hockey Lesson 3
- Identifying players that need to be marked
- Use speed and agility to stay with an opponent
- Consistently mark in an appropriate position
We are learning: to use goal-side marking to prevent an attacker from getting close to the goal Activity: Using marking skills to defend the opposition
Year 6 Hockey Lesson 4
- Channel opposition players away from the middle of the pitch
- Using the banana run channel players to your strong side
- Apply channelling skills in a game
We are learning: to use the banana run to force an oncoming attacker out wide Activity: Fun banana game
Year 6 Hockey Lesson 5
- Recognise when and where a hit out should be taken
- Play the hit out as a defender and position themselves to support the hitout
- Move to create opportunities for a successful hit out
We are learning: to use a hit out to successfully to restart a game
Activity: Assessment for Learning – implementing the hit out rule
Year 6 Hockey Lesson 6
- To work cooperatively to implement attacking and defending strategies
- Attempt to use Indian dribble
- Explain the high ball rule and what constitutes a high ball.
We are learning: Indian dribble and playing competitively using new skills Activity: Competition Week – Round Robin using hockey rules