No Man's Land — Net & Wall Games Unit
Category: Sport Skills · 20-page printable PDF · Ages 9-10 · Free for ConnectedPE members
An 8-lesson Game Sense unit for net & wall games — badminton, volleyball, pickleball and modified tennis — for Years 9–10. Students climb a tactical ladder that starts with owning the rally base and ends in a player-ranked Bjerring tournament, with every lesson running on the same Spark–Build–Play–Reflect engine so routines disappear and learning takes the front seat.
Built on Teaching Games for Understanding, the unit develops the transferable net-wall toolkit: recovery to base, placement, deception, anticipation and doubles systems — refined under genuine game pressure rather than isolated drills. Three student-selected challenge tiers keep every player in their stretch zone, and the full assessment plan (mapped to AC9HPE10M01, AC9HPE10M04 and AC9HPE10M05) covers applied tactics, officiating and self-assessment.
Twenty pages, print-and-go, sport-agnostic by design — run it with whatever net-wall equipment your school owns, or rotate sports across the season to prove the tactics transfer.
What students learn
Students refine and apply specialised net & wall movement skills and tactics — recovery, placement, deception, anticipation and doubles systems — across a season of game-based lessons. They self-select challenge tiers, officiate and self-assess fairly, and demonstrate applied tactics under pressure in a player-ranked Bjerring tournament scored by point-differential.
Topics: net & wall, game sense, TGfU, badminton, volleyball, pickleball, tennis, tactics, unit plan, 8-lesson unit, Bjerring tournament, differentiation, Stage 5
Curriculum links
- AC9HPE10M01
- AC9HPE10M04
- AC9HPE10M05
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