---
title: "Year 6 Hockey - Free SOW Unit"
url: https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/units/year-6-hockey-1/
description: "Learning outcomes - 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."
---

# 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...

1. to shoot under pressure from close range.
2. when a long corner is awarded and to take a long corner in a game
3. to use goal-side marking to prevent an attacker from getting closer to the goal.
4. to use a banana run to force an oncoming attacker out wide.
5. to use a hit-out to successfully restart a game
6. Indian dribble and to play competitively using new skills.

### Key Questions

1. What set plays did you use in a game, and were they successful?
2. When would you use Indian Dribble in a game situation?
3. 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

![An image of Hockey Indian Dribble from left to right](https://media-prod.pehub.eject.pro/cms-sync/cG9zdDoxNzk4NzU5)

## Lesson Overview

#### Year 6 Hockey Lesson 1

1. Play the role of both the defender and the attacker
2. Shoot from close range
3. Score points against opposition

**We are learning:** to shoot under pressure from close range  
**Activity:** Assessment for Learning Task

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#### Year 6 Hockey Lesson 2

1. Can explain why a long corner is awarded
2. Can participate in a long corner routine
3. 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

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#### Year 6 Hockey Lesson 3

1. Identifying players that need to be marked
2. Use speed and agility to stay with an opponent
3. 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

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#### Year 6 Hockey Lesson 4

1. Channel opposition players away from the middle of the pitch
2. Using the banana run channel players to your strong side
3. 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

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#### Year 6 Hockey Lesson 5

1. Recognise when and where a hit out should be taken
2. Play the hit out as a defender and position themselves to support the hitout
3. 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

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#### Year 6 Hockey Lesson 6

1. To work cooperatively to implement attacking and defending strategies
2. Attempt to use Indian dribble
3. 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

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## Unit Resources & Videos

- [Hockey - Straight dribble](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/hockey-straight-dribble-750/) — Hockey
- [Hockey Glossary](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/hockey-glossary-160/) — Hockey
- [Hockey - Safety](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/hockey-safety-921/) — Hockey
- [The hockey stick](https://thepehub.co.uk/free-content/resources/the-hockey-stick-1016/) — Hockey