Achievement     Devise strategies for a physical activity outcome.

Achievement with Merit     Devise in-depth strategies for a physical activity outcome.

Achievement with Excellence·      Devise comprehensive strategies for a physical activity outcome.

Student Instructions

Understanding the process of devising strategies

Students are required to develop, trial, and adjust the devised strategies with the intention to achieve their physical activity outcome rather than evaluating these strategies.

Physical activity outcome

A specific outcome should be considered for the physical activity rather than a range of outcomes.

Most relevant strategies

The strategies most relevant to achieving the physical activity outcome should be considered. This will allow for more depth in the student responses. Strategies that have been selected and explained should match those being trialled.

Devising strategies

Student responses must provide an explanation that includes:

• clearly identifying the intended physical activity outcome

• clearly identifying each strategy to be developed

• how and why they are intending to apply each strategy to meet their intended physical activity outcome

• specific examples of how they would apply each strategy.

Trialling and adjusting devised strategies

It is expected that strategies are trialled and adjusted before the physical activity outcome is completed rather than evaluating these strategies after the event/experience/ performance programme.

Student responses must provide:

• evidence of the strategies being trialled, with supporting examples

• an explanation of how and why adjustments are required to be made to each strategy after the trialling process to achieve the intended physical activity outcome. These adjustments should align with the student’s reflection.

• if no strategies require adjustment, this needs to be reflected in the explanation relating to the physical activity outcome.

Forced and unforced points

Attacking strategies

• Passing and moving to the net to make attacking smashes and spikes

• Positioning tall players at the front to spike and shorted players to set

• Having a range of players in positions to spike so the setter has options

• Spiking from outside the court to make it harder to block

• Using dummy spikers to create confusion

• Having spikers at different angles to deceive the blockers

Defence strategies

• Blockers

• Covering space

• Positioned low to prevent the spiked ball from hitting the ground

• Deciding on having 2 and back 1 at the front or vice versa. the pros and cons of both systems 

Psychological strategies

• Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh

“Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.”

Buddha

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

Sharon Salzberg

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

Wayne Dyer

“You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you’ve lost them forever.”

Self Talk

SELF-TALK is the conversation that we have with our self. It can be inside our head or even spoken out loud.

When we talk to our self (positively or negatively),, it can also generate IMAGES and EMOTIONS that run along with it.

All the beliefs we hold have been built by us with our own self-talk.

It is not what happens to us that we remember, but what we tell our self about it – this is our own personal version of what happened. This is why witness reports are so unreliable!

Optimists are always positive unless something actually goes wrong and, even then, they recover and move on.

Pessimists are negative, even when things are OK, and exaggerate problems. 

This is very bad for their emotional wellbeing and really damaging to people around them.