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Day Five: Is competition a good thing?

Morning session: Thinking about competition
Key focus
What are the advantages and disadvantages of competition? Pupils have a formal debate.

Afternoon session: five-a-side football competition or presentation of project work
Key focus
Pupils participate in a five-a-side competition in order to reinforce teamwork and co-operation with others. Alternatives are suggested for those schools not doing the five-a-side competition.

> Background information for teachers

Morning   Afternoon

Three activities: Three activities: > Good competition, bad competition (30 mins) (87KB pdf) Brainstorming the good and bad points about competition. > Five-a-side football competition and alternatives (2 hours) (136KB pdf) > The Great Debate (1 hour) (140KB pdf) A formal debate: ‘This house believes that competition should be banned. > EITHER Five-a-side football competition (2 hours) A tournament incorporating reflection on teamwork skills. > Evaluation: what have we learnt this week? (1 hour) (92KB pdf) Assessing the week’s activities. > OR Further work from Day 1 (Mapping Our World), Day 3 (Millennium Development Goals) or Day 4 (Sportswear) (1h 30 min)   Present work to class (30 min) A selection of optional activities from earlier in the week.     > OR Country research (2 hours) Project work on countries participating in the World Cup for those schools choosing not to do the PE activities. Download a pdf of all morning activities with worksheets and information (164KB pdf)   Download a pdf of all afternoon activities with worksheets and information (148KB pdf)

Background information for teachers

Morning
Pupils have already been examined various aspects of competition (see days 2, 3 and 4).

This morning’s activities provide an opportunity for pupils to review what they have learnt about the advantages and disadvantages of competition and to develop their thinking further, ending in a formal debate.

Afternoon
This afternoon, pupils participate in a five-a-side football tournament. You can give them a chance to reflect on their experience of the five-a-side competition (if done), particularly in the light of this morning’s debate.

If you prefer, this afternoon can be spent finishing and following up work from earlier in the week. As this is the last session, it is important to ensure that there is time for pupils to present their work to the rest of the class in the final half hour, even if some of it remains unfinished.

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