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Analysing your own performance

Improving at sport isn't just about practising more — it's about honestly analysing what's working and what isn't, then targeting practice at the weak points.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Competitive sport and tactics: Analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best

Key learning points

  • • Comparing to previous performance
  • • Identifying strengths and weaknesses
  • • Setting SMART targets

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 13 parts to scroll through
  • 3 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

performancescomparedpreviousdemonstrateimprovement

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Analysing your own performance

An English teaching video on this topic from GAALearning. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Comparing to previous performance

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 3 of 13

Learn

Comparing to previous performance

Recording data such as times, scores or video footage lets you compare a current performance directly against a past one, rather than relying on vague impressions of 'feeling better'. A sprinter timing every 100m run over a term can see clear, objective evidence of progress or plateau.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Identifying strengths and weaknesses

Structured self-analysis, sometimes using a simple table of strengths, weaknesses and targets, helps separate what's already working well from what needs deliberate practice. For example, a basketball player might identify strong dribbling but weak free-throw accuracy, and focus extra practice time specifically on free throws.

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Quick check

Part 5 of 13

Quick check

Why is recording data like times or scores useful for improvement?

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Quick check

Part 7 of 13

Quick check

What does the 'M' in SMART targets stand for?

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Learning cycle

Part 8 of 13

Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Setting SMART targets

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 9 of 13

Learn

Setting SMART targets

Effective targets are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound (SMART) — 'get better at football' is not useful, but 'complete 8 out of 10 free kicks on target within four weeks' is something you can actually track and know when you've achieved.

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Quick check

Part 10 of 13

Quick check

Why might an athlete focus extra practice specifically on a weakness?

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Challenge round

Part 11 of 13

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Mastery quiz

Part 12 of 13

Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Analysing your own performance

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. Why is recording data like times or scores useful for improvement?

  2. 2. What does the 'M' in SMART targets stand for?

  3. 3. Why might an athlete focus extra practice specifically on a weakness?

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Lesson round-up

Part 13 of 13

Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

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Games

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Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 3 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Article

What a warm-up is actually for

A warm-up raises the heart rate, sends more blood to the working muscles and raises muscle temperature by a couple of degrees. Warm muscle stretches further before it tears, and messages between brain and muscle travel faster, so movement is more accurate.

A good warm-up has three parts: a few minutes of easy movement, mobility that takes joints through the range the sport needs, and short bursts at close to game speed.

Long, still stretching before explosive sport can slow the muscle down. Save that kind of stretching for the cool-down.

Written for Good Learning Co.

Reading questions

  1. Explain in your own words two things a warm-up does to the body.
  2. Design a ten-minute warm-up for one sport, with times for each part.
  3. Keep a training log for three sessions: what you did, how long, and how you felt after.

  • Training log

    Writing

    Write what you did, for how long, and how your body felt afterwards.

    Half a page

Saved as you type.

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